Racism News

David Duke Considering Running For President

11:50 am EST July 5th, 2011 | Conservative | 67 Comments

I am totally sure that former klansman David Duke thinking of running for President has absolutely nothing to do with the rise of the right-wing tea party. I’m sure the two things are completely coincidental.

Topic: 2012 Election, Racism

The Minstrel Show At The Republican Leadership Conference

10:41 pm EST June 18th, 2011 | Republicans | 58 Comments

Reggie Brown, an Obama impersonator, stood on stage and did a shuck and jive for the 2011 Republican Leadership Conference. They, of course, enjoyed it. But someone apparently realized that not everyone in America shares the same throwback racial sentiments of the Republican base and stopped the show.

Next time, guys, how about a guy in black face instead of a black man making a fool out of himself? And fried chicken. Make some fried chicken jokes.

Topic: Racism

Racist Tea Party E-Mail Shows How Not Racist They Are

8:39 am EST April 18th, 2011 | Conservative | 144 Comments

Remember, the Tea Party is based on serious policy disagreements with Obama and not just bigoted people freaking out over our first black president. And when they send out emails like this comparing Obama to a monkey, it is totally not racist of them at all. I know this is true because I saw it on Fox News and why would they lie?

Topic: Racism, Tea Party

Republicans In The South: Things Don’t Change

1:06 pm EST April 7th, 2011 | Conservative | 13 Comments

In this PPP poll, “46% of these hardcore Republican voters believe interracial marriage should be illegal.” In 2011. In America. Lord.

Topic: Race, Racism

UK Daily Star Accused Of Making Up Anti-Muslim News Stories

4:23 pm EST March 7th, 2011 | Media | 5 Comments

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The Daily Star has been accused of printing fictional stories by a disgruntled reporter who has resigned over its “hatemongering” anti-Muslim propaganda.

In a resignation letter, Richard Peppiatt said he was leaving after the Star gave sympathetic coverage to the far-right English Defence League last month.

Peppiatt admits producing a number of fictional stories about celebrities during his two years at the tabloid, a practice he implies was sanctioned by his seniors.

Well, if he comes across the pond, he could land a plum assignment at Fox News. (via T.G.)

Topic: Racism

VIDEO: Racist Group “Youth For Western Civilization” At CPAC

10:01 am EST February 11th, 2011 | Conservative | 33 Comments

They of course find a receptive audience. (via)

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 that allowed them to exist.

Topic: CPAC, Race, Racism, Youth For Western Civilization

Mississippi Debates Honoring Klan Leader On License Plates

11:44 am EST February 10th, 2011 | History | 34 Comments

The south fails yet again. You’ve got to be kidding me.

A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to sponsor a series of state-issued license plates to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, which it calls the “War Between the States.” The group proposes a different design each year between now and 2015, with Forrest slated for 2014.

“Seriously?” state NAACP president Derrick Johnson said when he was told about the Forrest plate. “Wow.”

Image above from “Mississippians Against The Commemoration Of Grand Wizard Nathan Forrest”

I can’t believe this crap is going on in the 21st century. Even in the south.

Topic: Ku Klux Klan, Mississippi, Race, Racism

Republicans Invite Hate Group “Scholar” To Tesify On The Federal Reserve

2:50 pm EST February 9th, 2011 | Conservative, Republicans | 12 Comments

Thomas DiLorenzo The Keystone Kongress hasn’t been in charge for very long, and yet they’re already scraping the barrel on people they invite to testify.

The ranking Democrat on a House panel overseeing the Federal Reserve on Wednesday accused a witness invited by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) of being affiliated with a “hate group.”

The first meeting of the House Financial Services Committee’s subcommittee on domestic monetary policy had a tense moment when Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) questioned the background of Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo.

Clay went after DiLorenzo, an economic professor at Loyola University invited to testify by Paul, for his connections with the League of the South, which has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “neo-Confederate” group. The league identifies DiLorenzo as an “affiliated scholar” of its League of the South Institute for the Study of Southern Culture and History.
“After reviewing your work and the so-called message you employ, I still do not understand you being invited to testify today on the unemployment situation,” Clay said. “But I do know that I have no questions for you.”

Who is the League Of The South?

The League of the South is a neo-Confederate group that advocates for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by “European Americans.” The league believes the “godly” nation it wants to form should be run by an “Anglo-Celtic” (read: white) elite that would establish a Christian theocratic state and politically dominate blacks and other minorities. Originally founded by a group that included many Southern university professors, the group lost its Ph.D.s as it became more explicitly racist. The league denounces the federal government and northern and coastal states as part of “the Empire,” a materialist and anti-religious society.

Topic: League Of The South, Race, Racism, Thomas DiLorenzo, US House

Like Clockwork: Haley Barbour Praises Pro-Segregation Citizen’s Council

6:12 pm EST December 20th, 2010 | History, Republicans | 57 Comments

He’s just a good old boy.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has set off a firestorm of controversy over his comments on the civil rights era in his hometown of Yazoo City, and now the president of the state’s NAACP organization is calling his remarks “offensive” and akin to revisionist history.

“It is quite disturbing that the governor of the state would take an approach to the history of this state,” said Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP. “It’s beyond disturbing — it’s offensive that he would take that approach to the history of this state to many African-Americans who had to suffer as a result of the policies and practices of the Citizens Council.”

In his interview with The Weekly Standard, Barbour heaps praise on the pro-segregation Citizens Council, which he credits with integrating the Yazoo City public schools without any violence.

“Because the business community wouldn’t stand for it,” he said. “You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you’d lose it. If you had a store, they’d see nobody shopped there. We didn’t have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City.”

With Barbour, I am genuinely confused as to whether he’s being diabolical or if he’s just your standard issue conservative who is totally ignorant of American history. Either way, it’s the kind of thing that the Republican party has built its modern incarnation on, so in their eyes Haley has done no wrong.

Topic: Haley Barbour, Race, Racism