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I’m not a birther, but…

Thursday, December 20, 2012

The joke used to be that people would say “I’m not a racist, but…” and then go on to say racist things. Well, the GOP apparently has a new version of that. It may not be acceptable to say racist things in public, but it is ok to accuse our first black president of having [...]

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The Only Thing to Fear Is …

Saturday, November 10, 2012

The only way this could be better is if it were a photo of Gene Wilder from Blazing Saddles.

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Voting Slavishly?

Thursday, November 8, 2012

I found this image on Facebook. I’m not sure if it is valid. First of all, the Washington Territory wasn’t created until 1853, and yet this says the map is from 1846. And the Civil War itself didn’t start until 1861. So this is not a “Civil War Map” and it sure isn’t from 1846. [...]

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The March of Time

Saturday, May 12, 2012
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Don’t Re-Nig Bumper Sticker

Friday, March 23, 2012

I had the same reaction when I first heard about this (after all, I am a grammar Nazi), but Deon Cole says it so much better than I could.

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Dog Whistles

Sunday, January 15, 2012

I remember when I was young, it was not uncommon for some people to say things that were racist, even out loud in public. The civil rights movement managed to make it unacceptable for people to be explicitly racist, but it didn’t get rid of racism itself. Those people just found more socially acceptable ways [...]

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Heaven Can Wait, Get This Turkey Some Mac ‘n Cheese!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Right Wing Watch captured a charming moment with Pat Robertson on The 700 Club. The video clip answers that age old question: Just how out of touch can one man be? Apparently our renowned evangelist has never attended a church picnic. Robertson is a lot like that proverbial sweet, kind, well-meaning, out of touch racist [...]

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Herman Cain Jeopardy: The Answer Is “Because He’s Black”

Friday, November 18, 2011

©Lee Judge Commenting on racial bias is full of pitfalls and traps because it is so very difficult for us to recognize our own biases. Any idiot political shock jock can use some comment on race to get attention but even carefully crafted, well intended discussion can provoke hurt feelings and outrage due to misunderstanding [...]

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Racial Stereotype

Monday, July 4, 2011

We have all heard about scholarship programs for minority or underprivileged students, so why does this story from Texas make us feel uncomfortable? After all, technically whites are a minority in Texas. Transcript: Brendan Baird is studying to become a physician’s assistant; a $500 academic scholarship will help pay the way. He had to demonstrate [...]

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Thank Goodness this is not how it works in our world

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

© Tom Tomorrow

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Who’s the Fool Now?

Sunday, July 25, 2010

© Kevin Siers Why would anyone believe anything coming from Andrew Breitbart ever again? We’ve already been fooled more than once by him. As Dubya said, “fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again”.

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Tanning Tax is Racist?

Friday, July 9, 2010

Maybe the Glenn Beck show is trying to tell us that if we get rid of Beck himself, it might just get worse. Because while Beck was on vacation, his fill-in host, Doc Thompson, said this gem: For years I’ve suggested that racism was in decline and yeah, there are some, you know, incidents that [...]

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Police Officer Sues For Right to be Racist

Saturday, August 8, 2009

In a bizarre twist to the ongoing reality inversion, where blacks and latinos are now the ones who are racist, the Boston Police officer who called Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates a “banana-eating jungle monkey” and said he would have sprayed Gates in the face with pepper spray, has filed a lawsuit against the police [...]

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Racism in America

Friday, October 24, 2008

I’m sure everyone has seen the story about the 20 year old white girl, a McCain volunteer, who has now confessed that she made up a story about a large black man who attacked and robbed her, and scratched a “B” on her face because he saw the McCain bumper sticker on her car. There [...]

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