Humiliation, Riding On A Carpet of Racism
I want you to hear Baratunde Thurston's heartfelt message to Donald Trump and the media who enabled him. Be forewarned, it's NSFW in places. While it will likely have no effect on those who most need to hear the message, it had a profound impact on me, and I think it will have one on you, too.
In his intro he writes this:
I then thought of this fetid, smug, hate-filled, wealthy white man taking credit for the release and yet still not being satisfied. It does not matter how long we’ve been in these United States. We will never be American.
I was especially moved by his direct message to Donald Trump, a man who "was given everything" and lives the life he does with the freedom to do what he did because he was given everything.
I don't want to hear about The Apprentice. I don't want to hear about your new cologne. I don't want to hear about the new tower you're building in whatever f--king town.
That cologne smells of racism. That tower is built on the blood of disrespected slaves and freedom fighters. And that show is merely a showcase for the dishonor you have brought on anyone who would call themselves an American.
Aside from being one of the most idiotic moments in American political history, this marks a level of personal humiliation no previous president has ever been asked to endure. Other presidents have been the target of crazy conspiracy theories, sure, but few have been as self-evidently absurd as birtherism. None has been so clearly rooted in anxieties about the president’s racial identity, because no previous American president has been black.
He has been called everything but a child of God and, in two short years, has been portrayed as anything but what he truly is . . .
A man, worthy of the respect and dignity of his own words and reputation.
Instead, people have sought to attack the very foundation of his existence . . . his birth. And the sad part in all of this? It’s become par for the course. Not because President Obama has never answered his critics. Not because the President has never released information. Not because the President has allowed others to shape the debate.
It’s because there never should have been a “debate” in the first place. It was never a real story to begin with.
This is hilariously sad. It’s dumb that Obama had to go to extraordinary lengths to release his long-form birth certificate, but hilarious because it now shows that the leading presidential candidate of the Republican party has gotten to his position on what is an even now more thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory.
David Remnick (The New Yorker):
Let’s be even plainer: to do what Trump has done (and he is only the latest and loudest and most spectacularly hirsute) is a conscious form of race-baiting, of fear-mongering. And if that makes Donald Trump proud, then what does that say for him? Perhaps now he will go away, satisfied that this passage has sufficiently restored his fame quotient and television ratings. The shame is that there are still many more around who, in the name of truth-telling, are prepared to pump the atmosphere full of poison.
After watching Baratunde's video and reading some of these comments, do you think these people really give a damn about Jake Tapper's self-aggrandizing equivocation or Orly Taitz' coked-up Soviet-style BS or Eric Cantor's Orwellian flip-flop?
I'm sure the president understood that it wouldn't satisfy the True Believers. But he smelled a swiftboating and decided to deal with it head-on. Corporate media have been put on notice now. They can make these wingnuts irrelevant or continue to flog the narrative.
I suggest we begin to hold them accountable for flogging the narrative in a way that will cost them. Viewers, readers, advertisers, whatever it takes.
"I suggest we begin to hold them accountable"
Absolutely.
Great vid - great piece.
They should be ashamed but they still crow lies upon lies.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
They should be ashamed but they still JIM crow lies upon lies.
Fixed it for ya.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
All i can say is THANK GOD for MSNBC. Lawrence O'Donnell is calling NBC to account for helping the Chump to keep the carnival going. NBC is as complicit as the people they pay to do their shows. It's time for NBC to tell Donald Trump that HE IS FIRED.
Watch Lawence O'Donnell tonight on MSNBC. I'm not affiliated with MSNBC in the slightest, but i know you will appreciate the show. I have a feeling the rest of the great shows on MSNBC will be good tonight too.
Nothing could be better for the nation or for NBC, than for NBC to fire Donald Trump, and to cancel his.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Tweety took a couple birther Tea Baggers to the wood shed as well. Tweety did a very good job and is actually angry at these guys.
(The page and video might take a few seconds to load and of course there is a 15 second commercial at the beginning but it is well worth it)
Now, emboldened by his dubious "success," Trump wants Obama to release the grades that got him into Harvard. Perhaps Trump doesn't know or care that Obama could have been a legacy student (his father was a Harvard grad student) like GWBush or that his father was a brilliant scholar and the apple doesn't fall from the tree. Or that Obama Jr. did extremely well when he got there, graduating magna cum laude and later elected President of the Law Review. Or that he went on to become a law professor himself. Wonder what got Trump into Penn? Regardless, Trump is a blowhard who is better ignored, unless it's to ask him to release his grades. And didn't Trump say he'd release his financial statements if Obama released the long-form BC? Donald, the world is waiting ...
Klansman Trump heard he was a shitty student. That should be enough for you.
Rich white guy says "jump!" and US breaks neck trying to oblige.
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closeted homosexual cross dresser and snorts blow on a daily basis. Who told me? Oh, somebody.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Beck and Rove have already started saying "birthers" were probably paid by Obama, you know he is supposed to be loving this because it marginalizes repukes.
lololol
Sure whatever
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
As in "The Clinton camp started the birther shit during the election."
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And of coarse that is just another lie. We are dealing with psychological liars. They cannot and will not stop lying. They cannot and will not stop trying to sabotage America. FOX channel got the ball rolling and now they will reap what they have sown, and it won't go down well for the psychopaths or for FOX channel....8(0))
Just remember... this is only a phase we are going through. We are going through a learning experience. We don't have fascists on the corner standing on soap boxes race baiting any more because the country went through a learning experience. FOX channel and the wing nuts are giving us a crash coarse and all we have to do is pay attention and we can make them go the way of the soap boxes of the 50s.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
If what Rove and Coulter say is true it only shows how easy it is for the Roves and Coultters to lead these dumb asses around by the nose.
The country has become an embarrassment to decent Americans.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
with an economy of words what most of think everyday. The only thing I can attribute much of this to is the decline in our educational system and the rapid re-distribution of wealth over the last couple of decades. We have become a nation of the ignorant, the gullible and the envious that is willing to believe anything bad about anyone else in order to elevate their own very low self esteem. We no longer honor achievement in science, medicine and technology unless it can be made into a consumer product that creates great profits. We have a large number of group followers that actually have disdain for higher education and completely igornant mobs that are easily led by outrageous liars that are artists at deception. Can we turn it around? I have serious doubts.
I left the U.S. in 1991 and things were, for the most part, being run by the adults. When I came back in 2008, it was like coming back to Bizarro world. I was on meds within months. It's fucking insane here.
Hence the name.
"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.
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had any real integrity, they would see Trump the same way most of see Glenn Beck, as a dishonest cretin starved for attention, and then they would simply cancel his television show to rid us of his ego and flim flam baloney.
Mindless assholes and the mindless media that enables them.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
This is a windfall in free publicity for that POS show and its host.
If people boycott the show's sponsors, and the sponsors start pulling out, NBC will get integrity fast.
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with deregulation. When the dollar rules, that's all they'll listen to.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
NBC is owned by warmongers General Electric and they pay Nixon Dirty Trickster Pat Buchanan to give his expert opinion on matters of ethnicity, gender & ethics.
I could go on, but really, NBC's owners proved a long time ago that they have no integrity.
are unable to reflect on anything they have done and think, Jeez, I really made an ass out of myself that time. There is just no self-awareness there.
Because he seems like he wants to "break him" and will pick up any stone laying around the racist yard to throw at Obama.
and the repubs have a carnival barker as their lead! Wonder what happened to the Grand ole Party? Look to the --lead-- even the mains stream is repulsed ! Clown with an ego that must pat himself on the back because NO ONE ELSE IS COMING TO HIS SUPPORT@!
Thank you Baratunde Thurston. you're not the only one that's embarrassed and heart broken by Mr. Trump and the damage he has done to America.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It's an insult to our great nation that a huckster like Trump would be taken seriously for a nanosecond.
It shows how little these people think of our country. They are not patriots they are traitors and need to be called out as such.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Thanks I needed that. Excellent voicing for the sane people.
Billionaires like Trump see nothing wrong with debasing the highest office of a country because they don't swear allegiance to it. These elitists view the world as their exclusive domain. Trump though likes the adulation of the vast unwashed masses who watch his neo-reality program. He is weak to need this attention let alone explain the gibberish that comes out of his mouth. All doubt has been removed that Donald Trump is a fool and deserves the scorn of every person.
Baratunde Thurston speaks truth from his heart, but the ruling classes care not. We cannot let them divide us with distractions while the theft of America's wealth is wrapping up. Guess what's next?
Okay. That's done.
Now can we have G. WTF. Bush's Air National Guard records?
Huh?
...had "nothing to do with race" and that I was trivializing true racism in my assertion.
Just watched Trump being interviewed by John King on CNN. The asshole was rude, nasty, boastful, self righteous, boring and stupid.
Just what this ailing Nation needs.
When he babbles on like he does, his mouth looks like an anus. Perhaps he's the only person who has an a$$hole at each end!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
glogrrl, your comment on Trump gave me a huge laugh... "When he babbles on like he does, his mouth looks like an anus. Perhaps he's the only person who has an a$$hole at each end!" Trump's mouth really does look like an anus. It's the perfect metaphor, given what comes out of his mouth.
The one who needs less is wealthier than the one who has more.
Remember the Central Park Jogger case when Trump took out full page ads calling for the death penalty for five teenage boys who were later proven not to have committed the rape.
A few months ago, Charles Blow of the NY Times wrote an article about why blacks are leaving NYC (they're relentlessly harassed by the police).
Trump is part of the problem as is Guiliani. His rise to fame coincides with the yuppification of NYC. He is one of the important, ruling class figures who decided 25 years ago that Manhattan should be white, disneyfied and highly militarized.
H'e's a tiny part of a larger problem. I hope people follow the lead of Seinfeld and DeNiro and shun him right out of the entertainment industry.
and Karoli for the encouraging words.
Every sane person agrees that Fear and Hate of racial, moral, and political Bigotry are what drives the Republican/Conservative Party in their quest for the age old human defects of Power and Greed.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/trump-unable...
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
G-man, you are correct, all doubt has been removed that Donald Trump is a fool and deserves the scorn of every person.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Forgive my language but the only way to get the point across is by saying these white privileged guys are forcing a n****er to prove something that a white president would never have to. We just accepted Bush and Reagan because they were nicely presented white guys. What could they be hiding? This guy is black! We want your grades now. They don't want women in their country club, you think they'd stand for a negro sitting in the same chair the god Ronald Reagan sat in? But we're not allowed to call them racist, that's race baiting.
You're a racist!
is intended to be a factual statement
No race baiters for president.
No race baiters or on my TV, NBC. Fire Donald Trump now or reap the whirlwind.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"We just accepted Bush and Reagan because they were nicely presented white guys." Hey Gump , don't take this personal waas just a fucjk upo , and I have drunkm wine , we never accepted Bush / Cheney as nice whiote guys , we here knew whwt the F vwas goiung donewn. Well , I tinkl I had too much vino , hey 14 yeRS NO HOOCH , ain't bad , I surrrrrre don't feel bad now , LOL< . good nightvall .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Karoli made reference to Eric cantor and an Orwellian response. i had not heard of it so I went to look. Canter is a turd of the Donald Trump/Lou Dobbs variety.
From media Matters about Canter
Cantor? Oh yeah...he's the evangelical Jew isn't he?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
afraid of alienating their far-right base
It's far too late for that. Ryan took care of that by threatening to take away their gubmint checks.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Well, i'm now convinced that all these republicans are scum. Trump is scum.
What more is it going to take for every single decent person to realize that the vast majority of republicans are scum?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
You're only convinced of that NOW? Where've you been the last fourty years?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
I don't take the term scum lightly. I always knew they were greedy, arrogant, bought, liars, cheaters, thieves, elitist, miserable, stubborn, childish, shovenist, stupid, authoritarian, ideological, racist, petty, not qualified for public service, and even fascist.
But i only recently came around to just how scummy they truly are - or more to the point i didn't realize until recently how deep their scummy-ness goes - it goes to the core - they are monsters from hell.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
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“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
No, more a matter of degree. This latest episode exposes that degree.
I suppose i used to have a glimmer of hope for some republican individuals too, but that was actually some time ago now.
I was really just reaffirming my conviction. I've probably said the same thing before, and i was already convinced then too, but not to this degree.
Communication is funny sometimes.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Holy crap ape , you were not convinced until now ? Forgive ete moi , beaucoup vino and beaucoup years no vino down the crapper tionote .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
?...8(0)) Ahh. Go easy on that stuff bro!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Beautiful.
'Talk to the hand'
should walk off the next episode of Celebrity Apprentice. "Sideshow Don, you've tried to undermine the president, you're a race baiter, and I'm not going to be a part of this show anymore, your fired!" Then walk out.
That would be rich.
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I for one will never take any white man seriously who hates, and I am white. Their insecurity is the sign of an undeveloped mind, a severe lack of empathy for humankind, and an indeed evil drive for greed and corrupting power.
Tapper is an asshole playing word games. Birther stories per se may not have dominated the news, but Trump coverage was virtually wall-to-wall. And virtually all that Trump spouted was birther bullshit. Therefor any Trump story was a birther story in addition to the strictly birther stories.
These egotistical fucks will never cop to the truth or admit when they are wrong.
...I CRAP bigger than you.
I've been on my own rollercoaster ride with Obama's policies and wishing he'd do much more sometimes, especially given his intellect and dedication (to even take the job after W was and is at the same time both masochistic and heroic). But these craven, self-entitled assholes who would wank all over themselves, blithely celebrating their display of utter human debasement, and the media slime who enable the whole theater, can simply go to hell. And FerretTop(tm)? Really? You know this is just a practical joke to him, right, a test to see how stupid people in this country are? (ding, ding, guess what? He won!) No wonder they didn't want to release Idiocracy. The movie was set five hundred years into the future however the dirty secret was we're already there. Trump Taitz 2012! Cause Brawndo's got electrolytes!
From now on I am going to refer to the Donald as Trump Taitz. Yup, that's his name. Trump Taitz.
Where do we start?
I keep seeing his stupid face spewing pure baloney. We don't even want to know just how disgusting baloney is ( no dispersions against bologna per se), you know what I mean. And he feels empowered and the next angle is the paper trail getting into Harvard. Trump could only get into UPenn (Wharton people hate to be connected in any to Penn, because it's not Harvard).
It's way overdue for this baloney to stop.
as long as it helps ratings/ad revenues, which it what it was always all about anyway, parting the rightwingnut rubes from their cash.
Tonight I sit ashamed of my countrymen and embarrassed by their racially motivated quest to destroy the Man and his rightfully deserved Presidency. It is truly sickening.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am touched and humbled by Mr. Thurston's astute insight about today's horror show. Thank you, Sir, for posting your comments.
If you think Obama wasn't born in America, you're either stupid or a racist. Take your pick, Trump.
NOBODY 2012
I guess this guy isn't one of "The Blacks", you aw shucks gets along with real good. I'm pretty sure he's one of those "other" blacks who want to tack your racist, white, bilious hide to a barn door..............I've got some nails!!
Thank you Mr. Thurston for your astounding self control.
The first casualty of republicanism is the truth.
Party politics are not only undemocratic, they are antidemocratic.
For saying this so well -- thank you Baratunde Thurston
borneopete
I am a blonde , lily white , blue eyed , none too bright 60 yo American born Finn , from day one I never even thought of Obama as being black or white but a pretty cool guy and maybe an honest politician who would finally stand up for we the people . Republicans are either wealthy and money is all they care about , they are ignorant and stupid as can be , they are ignorant racist cowards and or they are psychos , that is it , it is that simple .F em . Eliminate these people and this would not be a half bad world . PS Trader Joe's has good wine 3.99 , Panilonco Chile , Carmene'er .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
is now "Four Buck Chuck"?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Thanks for the insight and feelings .
" God and Country are an unbeatable team, they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. " Luis Bunuel.
I'm American but based in the UK and this is all kinds of embarassing. If Donald Trump was some poor sonofabitch from Shitstain, West Virginia, no one would give him the time of day. However, since so many people think that rich people must be smart because they are rich, know what they are talking about because they are rich, or better than others because they are rich, an ignoramus like Trump is able to spread his shit around and he's taken seriously.
If the media did it's fucking job, this story would be in the tank and frankly laughed about in the newsroom. If politicians did their job, when any idiot brought this up, they would have been smacked down, regardless of said politician's political divide.
This is nothing more than a bunch of racists being pissed off that a black man won. Obama is a better person to me because I would've said "fuck you all," right at the press conference. To be fair, he did have that "fuck you" look on his face during the press conference.
The White House just stirred up the hornet's next thinking this country can be reasoned with. No it can't, this country will always resort to the worst distractions on god's green earth. And what does Obama keep doing? He dredges it up. Not only that but did the white house ever think they are promoting the birther book from WND publishing coming out in May? Why hire a publicist when you have the white house? It's amazing how how many progressives fall for emotional theater. I can't wait to hear the democrats explain the mistrust away to the nervous unsure american public. I have a feeling it's not 11 dimensional chess like you think it is. It's akin to John Kerry and his "Unfit for Command" debacle. Just how is this country going to pass through this if you have so many dumb naive people ?The answer is: Mike Judge is right. BTW, do you know what is going to happen when "Where's the Birth Certificate" book is going to come out? The interviews will never end.
P.S. Thanks for giving even more promotion to birthers, White House. Why not start talking about Lyndon Larouche too.
I have stood with my fellow Americans for more years then I can stand to remember, for years I have been calling the RACIST republicans what they are, White Trailer Trash, closet KKK members, Whirte Supremacist. NOW,NOW we have the proof,the Anti American RACIST Bought and Paid for corporate owned RACIST republican party is and are RACIST.
Note i am WHITE, I look at all as AMERICAN, and I am highly offended that one of Americas OWN, one of AMERICAS Brightess, is NOT recognized for what he can DO to HELP this Country, but Held by the 1800 JIM CROW LAWS of the South because he is BLACK and the RACIST in the republican party DO NOT want any one OTHER than a WHITE male RACIST in the WHITE House.
This now is a FIGHT and it is a FIGHT ONLY a BLACK man or WOMAN and OTHER MINORITIES can FIGHT, I as a WHITE MALE will STAND with you to FLUSH these RACIST republicans from Office. They have NOT come out in protest that a AMERICAN CITIZEN should be subject to this in the 21st Century, so now I use the RACIST rights own System against them, they FAIL and REFUSE to denounce this and then DEMAND his SCHOOL records, NO it Stops here.
I ask that at TOWN HALLS they be ADDRESSED as RACIST and their Party be ADDRESSED as RACIST, I as that all the Liberal News media Post and Make available ALL, ALL Interviews with these RACIST, and Now the BLACK and MINORITY communities STAND UP and FIGHT.
Indentify their Businesses, their Contributors BOYCOTT anything and ALL TV,Cable, Satellight and RADIO stations and Businesses that DO NOT demand the RACIST RIGHT to STOP.
look this is YOUR Fight and ONLY YOU can hold these BOZO Racist accountable, I will stand and FIGHT but NOW you have to Fight. Listen or read the story of G Taylor and her Great Grand Fatjer and tell me these RACIST Nazis aren't trying to REPEAT History. look at MI. the Town that had its Government dissolved because a WHITE TRAILER TRASH INBRED RACIST ordered it Under a PHONY Gov. law, That is right the City Is Benton Harbour MI and the City is 90% BLACK, DETROIT MI> 90% BLACK and the SCHOOL AID is CUT, do you Folks see the Pattern, these RACIST are rewriting the Law to use financial Enslavement of the Black, Minority and the POOR in this COUNTRY.
This is the 21st Century however a BLACK MAN dared to standup to the WHITE TRAILER TRASH INBRED RACIST of this COUNTRY and as in the 1800's he was required to HAVE a RACIST WHITE TRAILER TRASH WHITE MAN Validate him, like I said i am White and I sit here with tears in my eyes and shaking hands as I look the path the RACIST,NAZI bought and Paid for Anti AMERICAN RACIST corporate owned RACIST republican has taken us. twenty years of my life WASTED so a bunch of RACIST republicans can validate their HATRED for a BLACK MAN.
NO apology can be accepted unless these RACIST republicans and Brain Dead tea baggers , acknowledge what they said, say that they LIED and admit they are RACIST and are willing to get into consoling, the Apology must be made on NATIONAL TV.
One more thing once they start protesting using the 1st Amendment, you have thes3 RACIST republicans NOW hammer them and don't stop the Ammo is all over starting with the RACIST at FAUX Noise, then move on to the RACIST and Latent Homosexual trump then use a 1-2-3 Punch on the RACIST republican party, nail these RACIST for their CLOSET KKK member ship and associations look to the Parties and WHO IS THERE and What organizations they belong to.
Standing with you and hoping that you will STAND UP and FIGHT these RACIST and call them OUT.
Okay folks just got done listening to the man above and we cry together. Now lets BURY this PIG and make a EXAMPLE out of him. this guy is s DUMB as the DAY is LONG.
1) Boycott NBC and its sub stations
2) Mr. Sharpton we need your organization to help us go after the SPONSORS of anything that this RACIST pig trump is receiving sponsor ship on to Include ALL his business Interest, hotles, casinos, Apartment complex etc, and if they try to transfer to hide make the Boycott twice as Bad even if it is TRUST.
3) Contact all Sponsors boycott NATIONALLY all of trumps properties and business Investment, make his partners CALL the LOANS.
4) If he calls a Bankruptcy DEMAND immediate foreclosure, this RACIST does not deserve any thing.
5) Faux Noise one of the BIGGEST RACIST,Nazi Noise machines the right OWNS go after their Sponsors, the same with that RACIST and over privledge WHITE TRAILER TRASH O'Lielly, the twister of FACT, the DISTORTER of TRUTH.
6) go on the ATTACK, start nailing these RACIST and calling them out on it.
7) When interviewing refer to them as a member of the RACIST republican party.
8) Hammer and DESTROY anyone that tries to trivialize this, and that BY gone should be BY gones these are very SCARED RACIST, and now they want to come across as caring and sure as Hell do NOT want to be called on what they have said and or are saying.
9) Keep hammering these RACIST and remind them they are RACIST "A American Sitting President, Born and RAISED in the United States of America had to Show his BIRTH certificate so the WHITE RACIST could Validate that he is a MAN and a Citizen of the United States of America, then they want is School records because these RACIST cn NOT believe a BLACK MAN is so SMART"
which validates the RACIST republicans so they can PROVE that the JIM CROW LAWS are a live and well.
You might also POINT OUT tha these same RACIST are applying JIM CROW to Poor and other Minorities under the GUISE of voter fraud, these RACIST that are using Voter FRAUD as a EXCUSE to STRIP AMERICANS of their RIGHT to VOTE. So it DOES NOT stop with the BLACK MAN but these RACIST want ALL ENSLAVED so that SLAVERY can be RE INSTATED.
for exposing us Baratunde's heartfelt message. I forwarded it on.
Ditto that. I wish I could give Baratunde a hug, I feel so helpless.
Political Ruminations
If you watched The Last Word last night with Lawrence O'Donnell, then you know what a powerful and strident lecture he gave to his part owners, NBC. He railed them and called them out for letting their employee, Donald Trump, continue his vulgar act of pretending to do something that he has no intention of doing. It was the best take down of one's "boss" I've ever seen.
If you missed it, catch it here. Listen to the whole thing. Liberals and socialists will appreciate having O'Donnell on our side of the political spectrum.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
I don't even know what to say. I have been ashamed to be an American since shortly after Pres Obama was elected because the racism was so obvious to me. Castigate me for that sense of shame if you will, but it is there and will remain.
Baratunde made me cry. I wish I could tell him that things will change. But they won't. Too many ignorant assholes for that. Maybe in another 200 years.
I HATE Donald Trump and all of the others like him. May they roast in hell.
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