Looks like Tom Tancredo and company have awoken the base.
Huge street protests made millions of immigrants more visible and powerful last year, but they also seem to have revived a hateful counter force: white supremacists.
Groups linked to the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads and neo-Nazis grew significantly more active, holding more rallies, distributing leaflets and increasing their presence on the Internet — much of it focused on stirring anti-immigrant sentiment, a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League says.
Tee hee.
I’m glad you are profoundly anti-libel.
Does Sen. Byrd (D-WV) know about this?
And where is Tancredo mentioned in this?
Kudos to the last comment, who points out Oliver’s hypocrisy (as if it’s that difficult)
Oliver, this reminds me of the simple fact that the Confederate Battle Flag (popularly but mistakenly called “The Stars and Bars” — the actual Stars and Bars is here) didn’t come back into fashion in the South until the 1950s and 1960s, as a backlash against the Civil Rights movement. (That’s also the time when lots of Southern states started increasing the amount of Confederate imagery in their state flags — Georgia’s being a prime example.)
As for the racist trolls commenting here — Funny thing: Byrd renounced the Klan before either of you (assuming you’re not both “Mary Rosh”) were born. Meanwhile, Trent Lott still has close ties to the Council of Conservative Citizens, formerly the WHITE CITIZENS COUNCIL. (And the WCC, being made up of the cream of white Southern society, its movers and shakers, was a touch more powerful than the Klan, which was mainly made up of impoverished whites.) And shall we go into the racism and bogus “science” of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, the right-wingers behind *The Bell Curve*?
Tancredo isn’t mentioned in the article at all. No-one said he was.
1) Which party was responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation?
2) Which party has a Congressional Black Caucus? Which is racially exclusive to one race but of course is not denounced as racist.
Answers
1) Republican
2) Democrat
Yet, Republicans are the racists. Funny that. But if you kids keep repeating it, I’m sure you think it’ll become true.
Wake up and smell your own foul hypocrisy.
“Looks like Tom Tancredo and company have awoken the base.”
Nimrod, have someone read the post to you to see what Ian was talking about.
There might be a Republican Black Caucus if there were ever multiple black Republicans in Washington at one time.
And the Byrd jokes? Awesome. Totally cutting edge and relevant, here in 1947.
A Republican Black Caucus would be denounced as racist, and validly so. Just as validly as calling the Democrat’s Congressional Black Caucus a racist organization. Yet who is calling it that?
Who, besides little ol’ Native American me, I mean.
I read the post. I was talking about the article. So was Ian.
Here’s a quarter. Go to the garden centre, buy some seeds, grow a brain.
PS: Unless you’re an idiot, you can’t seriously believe that you can excuse excuse things the party says and does just because Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
HERE IS MY RACE *thwack*
HERE IS MY RACE *thwack*
HERE IS MY RACE *thwack*
Classy.
(To be sure, Andrew Jackson was a Democrat)
It’s the black caucus, idiots. Are you claiming the interests of the black community are sufficiently represented in the white-dominated congress? Do you think blacks have been treated fairly throughout the history of this country? Or that the depredations of racism directed toward blacks does not exist today? So you want to water down the caucus power of an underrepresented minority with people that aren’t part of their experience or community?
It isn’t that racism both ways doesn’t exist, its that the minority groups typically take the brunt of it by sheer numbers, history and inertia.
So you gotta look back a hundred and fifty years or so to find the Republican party’s one not racial moment? Party of Lincoln.