Tag Archives: racism

Christians Taunt Praying Muslim Man

Video taken outside the White House.

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CALIFORNIA: Teabaggers Heckle And Protest Muslim Charity Event

The UK Guardian reports: As the video shows, the rhetoric of the protesters became increasingly venomous toward the families and children who came to attend the ICNA Relief fundraising dinner. Protesters shouted invective statements such as “Go home terrorist,” “Muhammad is a pervert, Muhammad is a child molester,” “Go home and beat your wife, she needs a good beating,” at …

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Dem Rep Gets Death Threat For Saying Pentagon Shouldn’t Sponsor NASCAR

After Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) suggested cutting Pentagon sponsorship of NASCAR events, she received the above fax. “We alerted Capitol Police this morning after we got the fax,” Maria Reppas, communications director for McCollum, said. “We leave it to them to determine the threat level for pieces of correspondence such as this.” McCollum’s proposal seeks to ban the military from …

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Students At CPAC Argue With Leader Of White Supremacists Group

Slate’s Dave Weigel points out this video shot at CPAC in which the leader of a white supremacist group tries to recruit student attendees to his cause. They aren’t having it.

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KANSAS: Tea Party Rep. Connie O’Brien Knows An “Illegal” When She Sees One

“My son who’s a Kansas resident, born here, raised here, didn’t qualify for any financial aid. Yet this girl was going to get financial aid. My son was kinda upset about it because he works and pays for his own schooling and his books and everything and he didn’t think that was fair. We didn’t ask the girl what nationality …

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Young White Supremacists At CPAC

Among the exhibitors at CPAC this year is group called Youth For Western Civilization. Their mission statement: We have the self-evident right and duty to work for the survival of our own culture and civilization. There is no reason to believe that the advances of modernity and the political freedoms we enjoy will endure with the extinction of the civilization …

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Mississippi Considers License Plate Honoring Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard

Mississippi is considering issuing a license plate honoring one of the founding Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan. SRSLY. Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, notorious for leading a massacre of black Union soldiers and leading the KKK in its early days, would appear on the plates in 2014 if the group Sons of Confederate Veterans gets its way. The …

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American Family Association: Native Americans Are Morally Disqualified To Own Land Because They Have Rejected Jeebus

According to the American Family Association, Native Americans are “morally disqualified from sovereign control of American soil” because they rejected early efforts to impose Christianity upon them. Bryan Fischer explains: The native American tribes ultimately resisted the appeal of Christian Europeans to leave behind their superstition and occult practices for the light of Christianity and civilization. They in the end …

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About Maine Gov. LePage’s Black “Son”

Over the weekend, newly-elected Tea Party-backed Maine Gov. Paul LePage called the NAACP a “special interest group” and told them to “kiss my butt” when they requested his presence at an event honoring Martin Luther King. LePage then offered up his black adopted son as proof that he isn’t a racist. Only, wait. That black “son” of his is actually …

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I Have A PowerPoint

An NYU professor has turned Martin Luther King’s famed I Have A Dream speech into a PowerPoint presentation.

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NORTH CAROLINA: Tea Party-Backed School Board Reinstitutes Segregation

Wake County, North Carolina Republicans swept onto the Raleigh school board with the backing of the Tea Party are abolishing the busing of minority students from poor neighborhoods into better-funded school districts. The new school board has won applause from parents who blame the old policy – which sought to avoid high-poverty, racially isolated schools – for an array of …

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Birther Interrupts Constitution Reading

As Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) read the Constitution’s stipulation that the president must be a natural-born citizen, a woman in the gallery of the U.S. House shouted, “Except for Obama! Except for Obama! Help us Jesus!” She was immediately removed. So much for the sanctity of our nation’s most-revered document. UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, World Net Daily is ecstatic.

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Censoring Mark Twain

In an effort to get school kids to read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, a new version edited by a Twain scholar will excise the novel’s 219 usages of the n-word. Finn is rarely taught in public schools anymore due to discomfort with the word, even though most agree its use is meant as an attack on slavery. Twain himself defined …

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Winona Ryder On Mel Gibson

“I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he was really drunk. I was with my friend, who’s gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about ‘oven dodgers,’ but I didn’t get it. I’d never heard that before. It …

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Sarah Palin: Jan Brewer Has The Cojones That Obama Should Have On Immigration

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Quote Of The Day – Judson Phillips

“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, …

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GOP Birthers: Keep Obama Off 2012 Ballot

GOP state legislators swept into office in the midterm elections are using their new majorities to push bills that would require proof of American citizenship in order to be placed on state presidential ballots. Bills are now being readied in Pennsylvania, Texas, Arizona, and Georgia. The internet birther headquarters, Christianist site World Net Daily, is cheering them on. Texas state …

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HomoConQuotable – Kevin DuJan

“Black voters are racist. Not only will they stick with Obama no matter what he does, but they will punish anyone they think harmed him in any way. Part of why HRC took the Secretary of State job was so she could appear to now be friendly with Obama…that, and so she did not have to be in the Senate …

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Just Posted To Sharron Angle’s Channel

Sharron Angle sent Joy Behar a huge bouquet of flowers with the note: “Joy, I raised $150,000 online yesterday thanks to your comments.”

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Joy Behar’s Blowup About Sharron Angle

As I noted in a post early today, Joy Behar called Sharron Angle an “evil moron” and “bitch” for her racist ad about immigration. Tonight Behar is being digitally tarred-and-feathered by the teabaggers and is getting a bit of criticism from the left as well. Below is the original View clip. Not embeddable here but equally worth watching is Behar’s …

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