Stopdog in the NY Times

Stopdog in the NY Times

To the Editor:

Frank Rich (“In Defense of White Americans,” column, Oct. 26) provides a compelling analysis of why racially divisive political tactics have failed in 2008, but when he says “there are not and have never been enough racists in 2008 to flip this election,” he misses an important point.

Studies using the Implicit Association Test have amply demonstrated that most of us, regardless of our conscious views, harbor unconscious biases against other racial groups.

Racially charged tactics in the “Willie Horton” vein aim not to mobilize unrepentant racists, but to manipulate the rest of us — decent people with a strong belief in racial equality — by tapping into these unconscious attitudes.

This is a far more insidious tactic, but fortunately, when the racial subtext of those messages is made explicit and our better angels are free to act, we recoil from the implicit racism.

Devon Kearney 
Ludovic Blain III
New York, Oct.
27, 2008

The writers are, respectively, associate director of the Center for Social Inclusion and project director, StopDogWhistleRacism.com.

ABCNews: WATCH: ‘Washed-up Terrorist’ Ayers Stays Mum on Ties to Obama

ABCNews

WATCH: ‘Washed-up Terrorist’ Ayers Stays Mum on Ties to Obama

His background with a 1960′s domestic terror group, the Weather Underground, has been recounted in hundreds of news articles.

 

His words could add to the evidence that debunks the claims Obama was “palling around with terrorists.”

 

But Bill Ayers is staying mum, and working hard to duck reporters and the campaign spotlight in the final week before the election.

 

He told a journalism student attending a education justice symposium in New York Sunday he and other former radicals were being “demonized” by Fox News. “We’re nice guys, right?”

 

Asked by the student, if he repudiated the actions of the Weather Underground, which carried out a series of 1960′s robberies and bombings that killed at least six people, Ayers walked away without answering.

ABCNews: Surging Obama Campaign Suggests U.S. Racism on the Wane

ABCNews

Surging Obama Campaign Suggests U.S. Racism on the Wane

The issue of race has been intertwined with the history of the United States since its inception. It has brought out the nation’s best and its worst — from the courage of the civil rights workers to the murderous terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan.

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“It’s an astonishing and wonderful thing that so many Americans are finding common ground,” says Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University in New Jersey. “It could be a moment of such historical consequence and tremendous racial meaning … but Barack Obama winning the U.S. presidency does not translate into the end of racial stereotyping or the end of racial inequality.”

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For many veterans of the civil rights movement, like former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, much more is at stake than an election.

“The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States would be the greatest thing for racial reconciliation and racial understanding that we could have happen in this country,” says Winter. “And I think it would mean so much to us as a leader in the world as well as to be able to point to him as president of the United States.”

 

 

Support Jesus’ General: After our white women

Support Jesus’ General

After our white women

So the B looks like a mirror image, maybe the mugger was dyslexic.

So the wound looks a bit too superficial to have been made by an angry mugger with a knife, Maybe he was only a little angry, very weak, and used a butter knife.

So there is no swelling around the eye, Well, uhhhh, maybe it’s a non-swelling kind of black eye.

I don’t know why Michelle Malkin doesn’t believe her. When did she start hating America?

Update: The police are in on the conspiracy:

Police planned to administer a polygraph test to Ashley Todd, 20, because her statements about the attack conflict with evidence from the Citizens Bank ATM where she claims the incident occurred, police said

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Update 2: She made it up.

Police tell KDKA that a campaign volunteer has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

I hope this courageous College Republican gets what she deserves.

AmericaBlog: Anti-Defamation League condemns Pro-McCain Republicans in Pennsylvania for ‘trivializing’ the Holocaust

AmericaBlog

Anti-Defamation League condemns Pro-McCain Republicans in Pennsylvania for ‘trivializing’ the Holocaust 

A lot has been written about Sarah Palin’s and John McCain’sdisturbing ties to anti-semites. And today, even more problems for John McCain and Sarah Palin, now from the ADL. The Anti-Defamation League, probably the lead organization in charge of fighting anti-Semitism, hatred, prejudice and bigotry, today condemned pro-McCain Republicans in Pennsylvania for trivializing the Holocaust (via email):

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned an e-mail message sent to Jewish voters in Pennsylvania, reportedly paid for by the “Republican Federal Committee of PA – Victory 2008.”

The e-mail suggested that a vote for Barack Obama would be a “tragic mistake,” and “Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision,” adding that “many of our ancestors ignored similar warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s.”

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, issued the following statement from Poland, where he is traveling with an Israel Defense Force delegation visiting Auschwitz and other historical sites associated with the Holocaust:

Ugly, divisive personal attacks against a candidate for any political office should never be acceptable, and using Holocaust analogies is completely beyond the pale. 

Regardless of which candidate one supports, it is shocking and profoundly distressing that anyone would see fit to make such an odious, false and repugnant analogy. Not only does it further debase the level of our political discourse, but it also diminishes and trivializes the virulent anti-Semitism and Nazi aggression that led to the slaughter of six million Jews and millions of others.

NY Times Caucus: Pennsylvania Republican Apologizes for Anti-Obama E-mail

NY Times Caucus

Pennsylvania Republican Apologizes for Anti-Obama E-mail

An author of the e-mail we told you about last week that the Pennsylvania G.O.P. sent to Jewish voters, equating a vote for Senator Barack Obama with the “tragic mistake” of those Jews who “ignored the warning signs in the 1930’s and 1940’s,” has apologized for it.

Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Judge Sandra Schultz Newman, a member of John McCain’s national task-force monitoring Election Day voting, who initially stood by the letter when we contacted her about it on Friday, said Monday that she had not read the final draft before it was released.

“Some of the language was inappropriate and intemperate,” Ms. Newman wrote in an e-mail statement Monday. “I apologize to anyone who was offended by this misguided e-mail.”

The e-mail had also falsely asserted that Senator Obama had taught workers at ACORN how to “commit voter registration fraud.”

State GOP officials disavowed the e-mail on Friday night, saying they could not support that assertion as well as another in which the e-mail reported that the former Weather Underground leader William Ayers believed Al Qaeda didn’t do enough on September 11. The letter was twisting a quote Mr. Ayers gave to The New York Times, published on September 11 – before the attacks – speaking about his groups’ bombing campaign in the 1970’s, which resulted in several deaths include those of three police officers.

Little Green Footballs: Neo-Nazi Assassination Plot Discovered

Little Green Footballs

Neo-Nazi Assassination Plot Discovered

 

Thank goodness this plot was discovered before these neo-Nazi creeps had a chance to harm anyone: Assassination plot targeting Obama disrupted.

WASHINGTON — Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday.

In court records unsealed Monday, federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.

Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville field office for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the two men planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.

The men also sought to go on a national killing spree, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.

 

Pink Flamingo: It Is Time To Call Evil What It Is (and) Deal With It

Pink Flamingo

It Is Time To Call Evil What It Is (and) Deal With It

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Today in Denver Barack Obama shook the trees and out fell 

insanely nutty individuals. Little Green Footballshas a photo of a Guillotine (H/T Looking At the Left) that showed up at the the Obama Rally.  I don’t know about you, but Obama’s little followers are now out of control.  The problem is he is so irresponsible and reprehensible himself that he will not call them down or tell them to behave.  This chilling reminder of one of the worst moments in modern history should be enough deter anyone from voting for The One.  LGF then links toLooking at the Left for more chilling photos of Obama’s supporters – FYI – Where’s all that GOP hate??

Check out the other photos from Looking at the Left and they will give you chills and cause for “panic”. This is evil – pure evil.  If Barack Obama is not required to denounce it, then we need to make sure voters see what is going on – not that it will make any difference – hope and change – alright.

 

Blog of the Moderate Left: Arlon Lindner?:

Blog of the Moderate Left

Arlon Lindner?

Remember State Rep. Arlon Lindner, R-Corcoran? Sure you do! He’s the insane former state representative whose political career imploded when he said, well, this:

Charming fellow. To be fair, this wasn’t the only bit of insanity Lindner espoused. He skipped a joint session of the legislature because the Dalai Lama was addressing it, saying, “As a Christian, I am offended that we would have the Dalai Lama come and speak to a joint meeting of our Minnesota Legislature. He claims to be a god-king, a leader of the Buddha religion, which historically has been considered a cult because of its anti-Biblical teachings concerning the one true Holy God, Creator of Heaven and earth and His Son, Jesus Christ.” When DFL State Rep. Michael Paymar, a practicing Jew, objected to the fact that invocations in the House had become sectarian under the GOP leadership, Lindner had said, “You know, we’re told there’s one God and one mediator between God and man. That man is Jesus Christ. And most of us here are Christians. And we shouldn’t be left not able to pray in the name of our God….And if you don’t like it, you may have to like it-Or just don’t come. I don’t come sometimes for some prayers here….We have that privilege, and you need to exercise it. But don’t impose your irreligious left views on me.” Because asking that invocations in a state body be nonsectarian was, evidently, too much to ask.

And of course, there was the letter Lindner’s lawyer sent to Rep. Neva Walker-Black. The problem with that was that there was no Neva Walker-Black in the legislature. There was and is a Rep. Neva Walker, DFL-Minneapolis, the first African-American woman ever elected to the Minnesota State Legislature. She had never been named Black, and had never been married to anyone named Black — indeed, no real explanation was ever offered as to why the letter was addressed to Walker-Black, though it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots.

Racism Review: Dynamic News: Whites Supporting Obama in Record Breaking Numbers

Racism Review

Dynamic News: Whites Supporting Obama in Record Breaking Numbers

A recent story onPolitico.com finds that Barack Obama is “poised to win the largest share of white voters of any Democrat in more than three decades.”The article reports that 44% of whites are supporting Obama. This means that Obama is poised to get more white voters than Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry—every white Democratic candidate except for Jimmy Carter, who had support from 47% of whites (image from Mr. Jincks).

I am profoundly encouraged by the number of whites who have been able to move far enough past white racial framing that says that Blacks are lazy, inferior, unqualified, etc. to vote for a black candidate, and would be enormously pleased if these numbers reflect Politico’s expectations on Nov. 4. If we keep going and continue rejecting white racist framing and begin dismantling the institutionalized racism that perpetuates unequal opportunity, think of what kind of country we could have. Whether it will happen or not is still to be determined, and America has an unfortunate history of following progress with regression. But for the time being, I’m hopeful that broad white support for a black man might be the kind of change we can believe in.