The Washington Post asked 57 Senate and House Republicans for an interview to discuss Trump and race, and only three agreed to speak to them.
Trump thinks the right of the people to be secure and free of “unreasonable searches” shall not be violated unless they are people of color.
Democrats have to tie every national, state, and local Republican candidate to Donald Trump’s seeming extremism as typically Republican.
For the past two-and-a-half years since Republicans took power in states and Congress, there has been a sustained assault on people of color to deprive them of their constitutional rights.
Some people became upset with Obama’s “Racism is no longer an excuse” speech. Perhaps people gripped by poverty were what made them wince.
Conservative Christians want to be able to spew hate and lies but for nobody to have the right to disagree with or refute them
Tea Party Republicans like Rep. Tim Huelskamp are spewing more hate and intolerance by decrying Republican outreach to “so-called” Hispanic voters.
Sending Rand Paul to speak at Howard University was a disaster waiting to happen. First Paul tried (again) to deny that he ever opposed the Civil Rights Act.
Robert Zimmerman compared Trayvon Martin to a black teenager who is accused of murdering a baby in Georgia because both are black and both are giving the camera the middle finger.
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
In Victoria Secret model Cameron Russell’s TedX talk, she discussed winning the ‘genetic lottery’ and the privileges afforded to her purely because of her looks, including white privilege.
Right wing “patriots” are constantly complaining of losing their freedoms and liberty. I would ask what these freedoms and liberties are.
So Ralph Reed of the misnamed Faith and Freedom Coalition, took exception to my findings yesterday, that the Bible is irrelevant as a determinant of United States immigration policy reform. He thinks he’s pretty clever and like any good conservative these days, goes right to invoking MLK: “So MLK was wrong to invoke the BIble &…
A planned, walled-in Patriot Community called the Citadel Project is being planned for a mountainous region of Idaho. It’s all about guns
While the Senate may indeed find a bi-partisan path to citizenship for undocumenteds, look for any positives to be scuttled by the House.
As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a conservative
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
How do America’s most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You’ll soon get to find out as they build their own city in the mountains of Idaho
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
South Carolina Governor, Nikki Haley has made history in appointing a black Republican, but was the move historical or hysterical?
Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life hell for the President and Democratic House members.
South Carolina is a prime example of right-wing attempts to destroy the public school system and replace it with private school profiteers
Conservatives are dreaming of a ‘white’ Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an end that has no role for Jesus
All four have all been targeted by Republicans with non-stop false allegations and yet the media continues to assist in the character assassination.
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.
There are 2 prominent women who could assume their party’s mantle as Presidential candidates in 2016. They are Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
We’ve seen some crazy conclusions drawn since Election Day, but Larry Klayman’s claim that conservatives are the new N-words is obscene.
Analysis of the white vote reveals they choose Romney by significant margins. What does this mean when it comes to race issues in the USA?
Texas says to hell with international treaties and has threatened legal action against OCSE observers if they watch Texas suppress the vote
Republican state Rep. Jon Hubbard justifies slavery as a blessing for black people because they got citizenship in America as a result.
In the span of a little over a day, there have been 3 blatant examples of Republican racism including Newt Gingrich and John Sununu
The one discussion that has not been receiving quite as much focused attention is the race – and racism – factor in this campaign.
A Texas Republican added the American flag to his lynched chair today, to clear up just who he was hanging in effigy. Yes, it’s the President.
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
Critics have been saying President Obama has not done enough to address poverty. They don’t seem to understand the reasons he couldn’t.
The all white justices and Gov Bobby Jindal are fighting a federal court’s ruling that Justice Johnson is next in line to be the head justice.
An South Carolina Democratic Luncheon meeting attendee challenging the presence of a Republican spy, triggers a DINO defense of Republicans.
Mitt Romney’s gift for gaffe has struck again. On campaign trail, Romney confused his anti-Muslim rhetoric with the Sikh temple shooting. The end result was sikhs becoming sheiks.
The president still needs Joe Biden because has that same sort of everyman charm that Obama has never been able to pull off very well but that was Bill Clinton’s specialty.
Rush Limbaugh claimed to be speaking for black America on his show, saying that African Americans feel Obama has abandoned them and Romney will win if Obama loses the “black vote”.
Hypocrisy: It’s okay for conservatives to call Joe Williams a racist, but it’s not okay for him to say that Mitt Romney is very comfortable around white people.
There are a spate of new bills in the house that were probably written by the oil companies. Everything Exxon wants, Exxon gets
A brave liberal correspondent ventures into an unpublicized town hall meeting rife with right wing propaganda and Fast and Furious paranoia hand delivered to the crowd by two House Republicans.
The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says
An English movie, ‘This is England’ could have very well been the story of the American Tea Party with numerous parallels.
Southern Poverty Law Center offers a list of 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right, who represent the worst America has to offer
The NAACP has come out in support of President Barack Obama and marriage equality in a press release dated yesterday, May 19, 2012.
In a recent meeting with the media, a South Carolina sheriff and two investigators feigned ignorance of facts as they are determined to let vigilante double-killings stand with no charges filed.
Look at all the things wrong in America right now and then look at the GOP solutions since 2010. You will see they have no intention of fixing any real problems
President Obama looks like he’s going to be re-elected, no African Americans will be elected to the Senate in 2012, but their support will be critical in Senate elections across the country.
The hope for a post racial America has been crushed as racism is front and center in the recent news cycle.
Two young black men were recently killed in South Carolina. They were preparing to illegally break into an apartment, but the owner wasn’t in the apartment, and no break in had occurred
Star Trek promised us a Utopian future of peace and tolerance and science; the Republican agenda has thrown all this – and us – under the bus
The two-fisted right-wing war on the working and middle-class has arrived and only wave after wave of Broad Left coalitions can truly stem the tide of fully corporatized America.
It’s just possible that Sarah Louise Palin, born a stone’s throw from Randy Weaver’s infamous Ruby Ridge, Idaho could be Mitt Romney’s 2012 running mate?
The U.S. is catawampus; in short the country is a mess driven by a right-wing Supreme Court and the gun-nut red states.
The murder of Trayvon Martin was the accomplishment, not the mistake, of a racist and ultimately greed-based system, this includes its politics, economics and culture.
Rep. Bobby Rush tried to show his support for Trayvon Martin by wearing a hoodie, but he was kicked off the House floor for violating a rule against wearing hats.
Today while GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum was at a campaign stop in West Monroe, Louisiana target shooting, one of his female supporters yelled out, “Pretend it’s Obama!”
The President made his first comments on the tragic Trayvon Martin case, calling for soul searching over the shooting and noting that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon. It’s time for America to wake up.
There is a culturally relevant connection between the racial hatred ginned up by Republican leaders against President Obama and the shooting of Trayvan Martin.
When a judge hates President Obama because he is black, you better believe he was a Bush appointee.
Rick Santorum won in Alabama and Mississippi because Evangelical right-wingers constituted the overwhelming majority of Tuesday’s Deep South voters. And they voted race no matter what they tell you.
Sarah Palin had a Facebook meltdown last night because President Obama dared to use her own words in context in a campaign ad. Naturally, in writing her defense, she doubled down on the things said in the ad while claiming they were taken out of context. The President’s ads are writing themselves this election season…
Why has my country become the laughingstock of the world? Well, look at the comments above: you need look no further than Rick Santorum
Conservatives can’t handle the truth about the aftermath of slavery or neo-slavery and how it still affects African Americans lives today.
Republicans in embracing 1950s-style paranoia makes Islam the new Communism and accuses it of everything the GOP is itself guilty of
Wealthy elitist Rush Limbaugh is super mad that the Obamas are worming their way into living “high†on the “hog†like the white peeps. The nerve.
These job statistics show who is working based on gender, race, and education.
Of course Republicans assailing poor minorities is nothing new, but for the candidates for the GOP nomination racism is part of the platform.
Jeff Sessions denounced ACLU DNA on the Senate floor, and with it, the very idea of the civil liberties the ACLU defends, and which our constitution guarantees.
When Republicans recently declined to meet with President Obama, it was a rejection of Old Testament proportions. The degree of concern over President Obama’s religion is truly astounding. How can any God-fearing Republican have any time at all for any liberal? It’s like inviting a Canaanite to dinner, or for the Republicans in this case, agreeing to meet with the high priest of Baal in his house.
Sarah Palin has another Tweeter moment. It’s ironic really, that she is the star of a reality show but reality is not a friend to her. She seems to be saying to reality (shrieking really), “Reality, you’re not the boss of me!â€
It’s not Democrats, after all, who marginalize and disenfranchise black or other minority voters. It’s not Democrats who are accusing America’s first black president of being a watermelon-picking white-hating racist and a Muslim. It’s not Democrats who go to Tea Party rallies and wave Confederate flags all over the place. That would be the Republicans.
It used to be that Republicans were considered the “adultsâ€, but this is the year when counterfeit conservatives jumped the meretricious shark and the Democrats appear to be the only responsible adult in the room. A perfect example of the tatty, mangy grunge of insincerity and graft permanently adhered to the former glory of the Republican brand is the Georgia gubernatorial race.
Convinced that only conservatives have a right to rule, and that they are not a defeated political party but the victims of an unlawful usurpation, a government in exile, the Republicans have declared war on America and will go to any lengths to return to power.
Sarah Palin took to her Twitter account to let the world know that she thinks it is very unfair that Dr. Laura Schlessinger is ending her radio show at the end of the year due to the fall out from her racist n-word rant on the air last week. Palin wrote Dr. Laura’s resignation “isn’t American, not fair.”
On his Fox News program today, Glenn Beck accused the NAACP of using racism as a tactic for political gain. Beck said, “Racism is now being used as a tactic for political gain. The NAACP is now trying to intimidate Tea Partiers passing a resolution to condemn ‘the racist elements in the Party.'” Beck lecturing about racism is like an arsonist discussing fire safety.
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh was speculating as to why First Lady Michelle Obama did not attend Sen. Robert Byrd’s funeral, and his speculation focused on Michelle Obama’s “pure slave blood,” and President Obama’s “lack of pure slave blood.” Limbaugh managed to not only take a shot at the deceased Byrd, but he also leveled a racial slur at the Obamas.
It was another wild and wacky trip through revisionist Right Wing history with Glenn Beck today as Glenn decided to spend the day defending slavery. On the radio he claimed that race relations aka slavery was fine until it became politicized before the Civil War, and he followed this up with a claim on his TV show that there were no racial relations issues in colonial America.
Leave it to small government conservatives to look towards passing an immigration bill that they can’t afford, which is exactly what Republicans in state of South Carolina are trying to do. South Carolina wants to get tough on immigration but the state can’t afford the bill without federal dollars, small government indeed.
FNC contributor John Stossel was on Fox News’ America Live today where he voiced his agreement with Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul that part of the civil rights ought to be repealed so that businesses can discriminate based on race. Stossel said, “It’s time now to repeal that part of the law because private businesses ought to get to discriminate… it should be their right to be racist.”
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck confuse the progressive movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries with the modern definition of progressive, so that that he could make the case that progressives are the most racist people who have ever lived in America, “The most racist people ever to live. The most racist people to ever live in America were the progressives.”
It’s hard to keep up with the Republicans these days. They’re a regular three-ring circus being lead around by leaders like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck — two out of three of whom we know didn’t finish college. We haven’t seen Palin’s degree from the 5th or 6th college she attended, but recklessly, we are taking her word that she graduated. Personally, I’m still waiting to see her high school diploma, but that’s just me. At any rate, with leaders like this, it’s no wonder that the Republicans are going up in flames.
It is no surprise that the angry white conservative movement a.k.a. the tea partiers has come to life since the election of Barack Obama, because they were fine with George W. Bush’s many violations, illegal wars, suspension of habeas corpus, etc. What lay at the heart of conservative opposition is their loss of control – and a black man in the White House.
In case anybody forgot, Rush Limbaugh reminded his audience that the President of the United States is in fact black. Today on his radio show, Limbaugh accused Obama of using the black dialect while addressing the National Governors Association today at the White House. Limbaugh said, “Obama can turn on that black dialect and turn it off.”
The most surprising reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union Speech came from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews who said, “I forgot that he was black tonight for an hour.” In other breaking news, President Lincoln has freed the slaves.
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh managed to revise the history of the 2008 presidential election to claim that the Democratic primary, not the general election, was full of, “racism and bigotry, and debating if Obama was authentic.” Limbaugh is obviously confusing the Democratic primary with the general election.
Thanks to some seriously inappropriate words from Democratic Senator Majority Leader, Harry Reid, the GOP are up in arms while trying to spin their racist behavior on to the Democratic Party.
Rep. Michele Bachmann turned up on the Glenn Beck Program, which is minus one Glenn Beck, to promote her healthcare protest in Washington, D.C. tomorrow. Bachmann turned up the military rhetoric and called the protesters freedom fighters. I guess to her protesting healthcare reform is just like risking your life in war.
Former DNC chairman Howard Dean talked today about healthcare reform and the death of Ted Kennedy. Dean wrote, “When President Obama signs a Health Care Reform bill late this year, Ted Kennedy’s may not be standing there next to him, but his presence will be deeply apparent in the Oval Office as the President’s pen moves across the page.”
Last night RNC Chairman Michael Steele was on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show and everything was going fine until Steele misunderstood a question about Democratic voters flooding the 2012 GOP primaries, which he answered by accusing the Democrats of hijacking elections at their whim. It is rather ironic that the Republicans are complaining after their activities in the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004.
After the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Al Franken should be certified the winner of the 2008 US Senate race in Minnesota, Republican Norm Coleman released a statement conceding the race, and congratulating Franken. Coleman said, “The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken and I respect its decision and will abide by the result.”
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been relatively quiet, until today when she bragged in a radio interview that she will be breaking the law by not participating in the census next year. Bachmann claimed that ACORN is involved in the census, and that are going to collect personal information to use to stuff ballot boxes.
On the Neal Boortz Show today, host Neal Boortz claimed that anyone who didn’t get their TVs converted to digital, they shouldn’t be allowed to vote. He also said that people still living in Katrina trailers should not be allowed to vote. He also claimed that anyone in Section 8 housing or on welfare should not be allowed to vote.
RNC Chair Michael Steele was guest hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show today where we found out that the era of Republicans not looking backwards lasted for two days. Steele blamed the GOP’s 2008 defeat on the media, who fell in love with Obama because he is black. Somebody needs to remind Steele again, that he too, is black.
President Barack Obama put to rest any controversy that might have existed over his not receiving an honorary degree for speaking at the Arizona State University commencement with his typical style and humor. In fact, Obama said that he concurred that a title says little about how a person’s life has been led.
