Archive for category politics
Motivated by Obama, White Racists Increase Activity
White Racist Groups Increase Membership, Activity in Wake of Potential Obama Presidency
~blackamericaweb.com
The serious hatin’ on Barack Obama is in full force among racists in cyberspace and has spread to countless computers in homes across America.
Rush Limbaugh Attacks Black Katrina victims and praises Whites as the Floods hit.
Posted by taino8632 in african-american, news, politics, racism, stupid people tricks on June 19th, 2008
~Crooks and Liars
“Limbaugh could not pass up the opportunity to once again trot out his old, well known disdain for poor blacks in the south who were victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. To hear Limbaugh describe it, Iowa is more American, more honorbale… you know… more white than Louisiana.”
The new racist
~Dallas Morning News’ Trail Blazers blog
At the Texas Republican Convention this past weekend one vendor was selling the pin that appears with this post. (If you can’t see the photo, the pin reads, “If Obama is President… will we still call it The White House?”)
The Color Test
Posted by taino8632 in african-american, analysis, demography, news, politics, pundits, racism on June 17th, 2008
~New York Times
“…where is the line? Does it change over time? And if it is definable, then how black can Mr. Obama be before he alienates white voters?…”
Immigration issues aren’t simply about Latinos
Posted by taino8632 in activism, asian-american, civil rights, happenings, immigration, politics on June 15th, 2008
Indians on Hunger Strike to Avoid Deportation
~New America Media
“…hundreds of workers from India who were trafficked to the post-Katrina Gulf Coast… demanded that the Attorney General grant them “continued presence” in the United States under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.”
Native Americans paying the price in search for knowledge
Posted by taino8632 in native american, news, politics, racism on June 14th, 2008
~ChicoSol
“They’ve dug us up, they’ve examined us, they’ve turned us inside out,” Angle said. “They’ve run us through carbon dating, DNA… whatever they can do to figure out what we looked like, what we ate, and how we survived all these years without European influence.”
A Different State of Race Relations
Posted by taino8632 in analysis, demography, politics, racism on June 11th, 2008
With Few Blacks Living There, Utah Is Feeling Its Way
~Washington Post
Earlier this year, a state senator stood on the statehouse floor here and spoke disparagingly of a pending bill. “This baby is black,” said Sen. Chris Buttars, a Republican, adding, “It’s a dark, ugly thing.”
United Nations investigates U.S. racism
~Los Angeles Times
“…if the U.S. is going to demand the monitoring of other countries, it’s going to have to accept the same treatment at home. It won’t hurt us to look at ourselves, and our real and continuing problems with racism, in the mirror held up by the international community.”
Geraldine Ferraro on racism
Posted by taino8632 in african-american, news, politics, racism on June 4th, 2008
‘Racism’? ‘Racial resentment’? Call it prejudice
~The Boston Globe
In a text book case of white privilege, Geraldine Ferraro writes about how racial resentment over “reverse-racism” is upsetting Reagan Democrats. She feels that white america is scared over the racism against whites present in Obama’s campaign.
If you’re white you can’t open your mouth without being accused of being racist. They see Obama’s playing the race card throughout the campaign and no one calling him for it as frightening. They’re not upset with Obama because he’s black; they’re upset because they don’t expect to be treated fairly because they’re white. It’s not racism that is driving them, it’s racial resentment.
Pastor Pfleger apologizes
Posted by taino8632 in activism, antiracism, famous people, news, politics, racism on June 2nd, 2008
~Chicago Sun-Times
“…I have never presumed to be anything but imperfect, but I pray I can still beat the drum of justice, even if sometimes I am off beat.”
“We have as a country done many great things, but we will never become a great country until justice flows like a river and righteousness like a mighty stream to every human life, no matter race, creed, color or denomination, every human life.”
~Chicago Tribune
Faithful at St. Sabina stand by pastor; Trinity flock react to senator’s departure
“We pray for our member, who is a public servant; we pray for all public servants,” Rev. Otis Moss III wrote in a “Declaration of Interdependence” handed out to members as they filed out of the sanctuary. “We, the community of Trinity, are concerned, hurt, shocked, dismayed, frustrated, fearful and heartbroken. Our hearts break at this moment and my limited vocabulary is inadequate to describe the range of emotions flooding our spirits at this time.”
