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... considered white only if you are blond with blue eyes.
exactly what Hitler and the Nazis professed.
NAZI c. 1927 - 1945 = GOP c. 1988 - 2012
I'm sorry, but while it is true that racism is Everywhere, ain't no place like Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi
I don't agree with what they said and should not be allowed.
But the comments being made in this thread are racist and close minded. How many of you have actually been to the south?
Yeah because Republicans are gonna be killing 6 million Jews sometime soon. Seriously, you have to resort to the Nazi card first thing? xD
Anyway, I'm in Tennessee and while it's not as bad here (granted I've lived in more urban parts of the state) there are definitely places down south where not everyone is racist but it's sort of the unstated assumption.
study the rise of Hitler and the propaganda issued by Himmler and Goebbles and prove my comparison to what's being slung around today wrong.
open your eyes and ears to the vile hate of Jews, blacks, gays (especially gays) and women being spouted all over the place
Sorry? havnt there been recent pogroms against arabs and muslims? killled a million or two. (or do you believe deaths dont count against you unless you actually shoot them?)Yeah because Republicans are gonna be killing 6 million Jews sometime soon.
... But you'll find that it's no coincidence that in the U.K. press they refer to the Mediterranean Eurozone countries as PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain). Yup, we're the PIGS! Yeehaw! And Brits just eat that stuff up. Then they vacation along the Costa Brava or to the south which has become known as the Costa del Sexo, because the pasty white folks where the Pound Sterling is still king can run around and engage in sexual escapades they'd NEVER consider indulging in at home in their own country. At least the Germans have become more comfortable being sexually deviant these days within their own borders.
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It is indeed EVERYWHERE that is sadly true & with the advent of the election of President OBAMA & the Tea Party it has become more visible than ever.
I cannot speak to KY having never been there but AL and MS is definitely the worst. LA is amazing, especially NOLA. The Racism in LA and TX comes not from the citizens but from the politicians and Government within the state.
I am southern, Born in GEORGIA and I firmly believe that most Southerners are not racist but unfortunately the ones that are, are ALWAYS THE LOUDEST .
You also have to understand that the beliefs and ideas here in the South tend to be backwards from the majority of the population of our country.
We have MANY MANY intelligent , very capable, progressive people here in the South but much to our chagrin the most ignorant of us seem to garner the most attention.
I apologize for Newt Gingrich, who is from GA and contrary to what you may think is not racist but just as bad he panders to that mentality cause he knows that is where his base is.
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It's more than "The South is Racist." I grew up among mormons who taught that people with black skin were direct descendants of Cain and marked with black skin because Cain killed Able. I haven't checked if they still try to pull off that institutionalized racism shit in their religion any more. After all, they finally took out a part in one of their religious tomes that claimed when people of the dark races accept the gospel "they will become white and delightsome." That was a BIG step. Someone should ask Mitt about that.
I grew up in a racially split family. My grandmother, a mestiza born near Monterrey, MX, was "rescued" by mormons and shopped off onto a family of mormon converts in Ewetaw as a "laminite child" or some such nonsense when she was 10 years-old. She then continued to live with her new mormon family not as an adopted member, but as basically an indentured servant helping her step mother raise a family of five children all younger than her. My dad grew up being called a "spic" and/or a "Mescun Monkey." And he carried that chip on his shoulder, rightfully so, to his grave.
My mother's family were all dull-witted white trash hillbillies who grifted from Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi and eventually ran out of energy in Missouri where their family history reads spookily similar to the plot in William Faulkner's short story Barn Burning. I remember my "white" grandparents watching TV and commenting about the African Americans on the variety shows, "They're shifty people, but they sure can dance" they'd say. And my white trash grandparents genuinely felt that way about people of color, hoping their own grandkids (me and my brother) might also at least turn out to be "talented and able to dance." Fuck 'em.
When I moved to Austin, Texas, to attend grad school in the early 80s that was the first time I realized that, because I appear white, white Texans felt they could use the N word freely when talking to me. That had never to me happened before. Of course, if there was a someone of Hispanic or African American ancestry in the group the N word was never used. This, despite anyone's protestations, is a time-honored Southern Tradition.
Yeah, racism is everywhere. But it's more acceptable these days. Suddenly it's cool to be racist, especially toward Hispanics. You've got the inbred racism that has developed in what's left of the Republican Party which assumes everyone who is Latino is an illegal alien. Racism is out in the open in Barcelona where I live, too. It's mostly directed at illegal aliens from Senegal or the French Congo pimping their beautiful girlfriends to the locals. If you have dark black skin and drive around in a new Mercedes convertible in Barcelona you're just asking for trouble. But you'll find that it's no coincidence that in the U.K. press they refer to the Mediterranean Eurozone countries as PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain). Yup, we're the PIGS! Yeehaw! And Brits just eat that stuff up. Then they vacation along the Costa Brava or to the south which has become known as the Costa del Sexo, because the pasty white folks where the Pound Sterling is still king can run around and engage in sexual escapades they'd NEVER consider indulging in at home in their own country. At least the Germans have become more comfortable being sexually deviant these days within their own borders.
Back in grad school (University of Texas, Austin, remember?) I bought a used air craft carrier sized Lincoln Town Car. It was cheap because it was a gas guzzler. But I only needed to use it occasionally for romps down to San Antonio or the hinterlands of "the Hill Country." The first thing the woman who worked as the secretary to the Dean of Communications said to me was, " I hear you got yourself an "N" mobile." She made the mistake of saying this in my ear at the beginning of a meeting of all the departments of the college. So I turned, smiled, and said "I've never heard it called that before. Fran, why don't you share that with Glenda (the academic counselor for the black undergraduate student body who had just sat down on my other side."
Glenda, a woman definitely not to be messed with and addicted to gossip immediately asked, "Tell me what?"
And I forced Fran to tell Glenda exactly what she had said to me, verbatim. It was a great moment. And once Glenda heard the racist comment she insisted that the Dean's secretary share her humor with all of the department heads and members of the faculty in attendance. Fran lasted about two months after that before she was fired, which is almost impossible to do to a merit employee working for the State of Texas. But Fran was just unlucky. She got caught. Firing her didn't change a thing, and still hasn't.
The problem with the Southern Mississippi University band members is not acceptable. I venture to bet that 10 years ago it wouldn't have even happened. But despite the "great strides" that have supposedly taken place in States like Mississippi, it's all a sham. Need more proof? Consider States like Arizona going on rampages by making laws that everyone needs to carry papers or ID proving they are a citizen of the USA? Then there's the incident on the Arizona side in a small town where an American born native citizen was forced to step down from running for a political office because she spoke Spanish slightly better than she spoke English!? Well, fuck her detractors, too. And especially fuck the State of Mississippi and every other place in the USA where we've devolved as a Nation to allow racial epithets, gay bashing, and the repeal of civil rights to be the status quo just because US politicians have systematically defunded the free and open education of the citizenry, letting it take a seat at the back of the bus because if the the proletariate of this country has a decent education the elites can't control them so easily.
Chanting "Where's your green card?" at a Puerto Rican basket ball player is just as bad as believing the President is a Muslim, or he doesn't have a legitimate birth certificate, and that the US declared war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein bombed the Twin Towers in New York.
Think about it. When was the last time you came to the defense of someone who was the target of a racial slur and yelled back at their detractors? Or better yet, have you ever chased their detractors down and beat the shit out of them?
Anyone? Anyone? Ferris? Anyone?
The worst racism I've heard first hand in the States is directed toward Native Americans in the West, especially those on reservations. And it often came frome seemingly liberal and open-minded people born and bred in the region. My experience was in Utah and Washington State.
you find it everywhere in the world...not just the United States. somebody always hates somebody for some reason.
OK, I've only been back in the good ol' USA for three days and in that time I've run into some serious bullshit that I NEVER encounter living abroad. But then, I live in civilized countries. But even as unenthused about B Ball as I am (can't stand the game) I find this bit of racism out right revolting for which there is no excuse.
During a Southern Mississippi University basket ball game "After point guard Angel Rodriguez was fouled late in the first half of the second-round game, a few band members showered the freshman with cries of 'where's your green card?' "
See: Southern Miss band chants
And as it turns out, Mr. Rodriquez is Puerto Rican, which automatically makes him a US Citizen. I know you white is right types just hate that fact, but it's true. Native born Puerto Ricans are automatically US citizens by birth. As are Western Samoans, some (but not all) Polynesian tribes in Micronesia, and then there are those kids born on US air bases in Germany, France, and those plucky survivors who can withstand the insufferable weather of Guam.
So, Martha Saunders, the very, very white president of the University tries to appease the masses with a quick and dirty apology in which she rightly condemns the green card chanters, but as luck would have it Spinach is a farin' lenguedge to her and she misspells Mr. Rodriquez's last name in the apology.
Good old Mississippi. The land of people with a tooth.
Anyone? Anyone? Ferris? Anyone?
It's more than "The South is Racist." I grew up among mormons who taught that people with black skin were direct descendants of Cain and marked with black skin because Cain killed Able. I haven't checked if they still try to pull off that institutionalized racism shit in their religion any more. After all, they finally took out a part in one of their religious tomes that claimed when people of the dark races accept the gospel "they will become white and delightsome." That was a BIG step. Someone should ask Mitt about that.
I grew up in a racially split family. My grandmother, a mestiza born near Monterrey, MX, was "rescued" by mormons and shopped off onto a family of mormon converts in Ewetaw as a "laminite child" or some such nonsense when she was 10 years-old. She then continued to live with her new mormon family not as an adopted member, but as basically an indentured servant helping her step mother raise a family of five children all younger than her. My dad grew up being called a "spic" and/or a "Mescun Monkey." And he carried that chip on his shoulder, rightfully so, to his grave.
My mother's family were all dull-witted white trash hillbillies who grifted from Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi and eventually ran out of energy in Missouri where their family history reads spookily similar to the plot in William Faulkner's short story Barn Burning. I remember my "white" grandparents watching TV and commenting about the African Americans on the variety shows, "They're shifty people, but they sure can dance" they'd say. And my white trash grandparents genuinely felt that way about people of color, hoping their own grandkids (me and my brother) might also at least turn out to be "talented and able to dance." Fuck 'em.
When I moved to Austin, Texas, to attend grad school in the early 80s that was the first time I realized that, because I appear white, white Texans felt they could use the N word freely when talking to me. That had never to me happened before. Of course, if there was a someone of Hispanic or African American ancestry in the group the N word was never used. This, despite anyone's protestations, is a time-honored Southern Tradition.
Yeah, racism is everywhere. But it's more acceptable these days. Suddenly it's cool to be racist, especially toward Hispanics. You've got the inbred racism that has developed in what's left of the Republican Party which assumes everyone who is Latino is an illegal alien. Racism is out in the open in Barcelona where I live, too. It's mostly directed at illegal aliens from Senegal or the French Congo pimping their beautiful girlfriends to the locals. If you have dark black skin and drive around in a new Mercedes convertible in Barcelona you're just asking for trouble. But you'll find that it's no coincidence that in the U.K. press they refer to the Mediterranean Eurozone countries as PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain). Yup, we're the PIGS! Yeehaw! And Brits just eat that stuff up. Then they vacation along the Costa Brava or to the south which has become known as the Costa del Sexo, because the pasty white folks where the Pound Sterling is still king can run around and engage in sexual escapades they'd NEVER consider indulging in at home in their own country. At least the Germans have become more comfortable being sexually deviant these days within their own borders.
Back in grad school (University of Texas, Austin, remember?) I bought a used air craft carrier sized Lincoln Town Car. It was cheap because it was a gas guzzler. But I only needed to use it occasionally for romps down to San Antonio or the hinterlands of "the Hill Country." The first thing the woman who worked as the secretary to the Dean of Communications said to me was, " I hear you got yourself an "N" mobile." She made the mistake of saying this in my ear at the beginning of a meeting of all the departments of the college. So I turned, smiled, and said "I've never heard it called that before. Fran, why don't you share that with Glenda (the academic counselor for the black undergraduate student body who had just sat down on my other side."
Glenda, a woman definitely not to be messed with and addicted to gossip immediately asked, "Tell me what?"
And I forced Fran to tell Glenda exactly what she had said to me, verbatim. It was a great moment. And once Glenda heard the racist comment she insisted that the Dean's secretary share her humor with all of the department heads and members of the faculty in attendance. Fran lasted about two months after that before she was fired, which is almost impossible to do to a merit employee working for the State of Texas. But Fran was just unlucky. She got caught. Firing her didn't change a thing, and still hasn't.
The problem with the Southern Mississippi University band members is not acceptable. I venture to bet that 10 years ago it wouldn't have even happened. But despite the "great strides" that have supposedly taken place in States like Mississippi, it's all a sham. Need more proof? Consider States like Arizona going on rampages by making laws that everyone needs to carry papers or ID proving they are a citizen of the USA? Then there's the incident on the Arizona side in a small town where an American born native citizen was forced to step down from running for a political office because she spoke Spanish slightly better than she spoke English!? Well, fuck her detractors, too. And especially fuck the State of Mississippi and every other place in the USA where we've devolved as a Nation to allow racial epithets, gay bashing, and the repeal of civil rights to be the status quo just because US politicians have systematically defunded the free and open education of the citizenry, letting it take a seat at the back of the bus because if the the proletariate of this country has a decent education the elites can't control them so easily.
Chanting "Where's your green card?" at a Puerto Rican basket ball player is just as bad as believing the President is a Muslim, or he doesn't have a legitimate birth certificate, and that the US declared war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein bombed the Twin Towers in New York.
Think about it. When was the last time you came to the defense of someone who was the target of a racial slur and yelled back at their detractors? Or better yet, have you ever chased their detractors down and beat the shit out of them?
Anyone? Anyone? Ferris? Anyone?