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Things Republicans “Never” Do

An open-carry gun rally in Maine worried African-American and other residents who saw the prominently-featured Confederate flags waving above anti-Obama signs. But remember: Republicans “never” use President Obama’s race to provoke anger. (Portland Daily Sun)
Democrats will keep the Senate in session overnight to force Republicans to actually filibuster financial regulatory reform after they voted for the third time in as many days to prevent bringing the bill to the floor. But remember: Republicans “never” obstruct legislation for political purposes. (The Hill)
Since they can’t actually shoot President Obama, one Pennsylvania conservative group plans to fire bullets into Obama Care and other presidential policy initiatives. But remember: Republicans “never” encourage violent acts (Think Progress)
The Arizona agency which trains law enforcement officers wants assistance from the federal government for training police officers to enforce the state’s new, and probably unconstitutional, immigration law. But remember: Republicans “never” complain about federal expansion into “states’ rights” issues. (USA Today)

4/28/10 1:40 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: Arizona, Barack Obama, Confederate GOP, Driving While Brown law, filibuster, financial regulatory reform, racism, Republican hypocrisy, Second Amendment, Senate

55 Years After Brown v. Board, Mississippi County Ordered to Desegregate Schools

Ladies and gentlemen, our post-racial society:

A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county’s only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

The order, issued by Senior Judge Tom S. Lee of the U.S. District Court of Southern Mississippi, came after Justice Department civil rights division lawyers moved to enforce a 1970 desegregation case against the state and Walthall County.
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For years, the local school board has permitted hundreds of white students to transfer from its Tylertown schools, which are about 75 percent African American and serve about 1,700 students, to another school, the Salem Attendance Center, which is about 66 percent white and serves about 577 students in grades K-12. The schools are about 10 miles apart.

Salem became “a racially identifiable white school while the student enrollment of the Tylertown schools has become predominantly black” because of the transfers, U.S. officials alleged in December, based on data from the 2007-08 school year, according to Lee’s order.

At the same time in Tylertown four K-12 schools, “District administrators group, or ‘cluster,’ disproportionate numbers of white students into designated classrooms . . . resulting in significant numbers of segregated, all-black classrooms at each grade level,” the judge wrote, summarizing the Justice Department lawyers’ case.

But, you know, black president, just playing the race card, no video evidence of racism, etc., etc.

4/14/10 10:44 am | Comment (1) | Permalink | Tags: Brown v. Board of Education, Mississippi, racism

Is anyone still working for Michael Steele’s RNC anymore? (Hint: Nope.) (MSNBC)
Wingnut Senate candidate Marco Rubio would like to take away Social Security from Florida’s Olds, who make up 99% of Florida’s electorate. Pat Buchanan will be the next U.S. Senator for Florida. (St. Petersburg Times)
If the teabaggers actually succeed in taking the government away from the Black Guy President, we will all be living in the United States of Amercia. (Daily K0s)
Surprise! Black leaders are none too thrilled by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proclamation commemorating the South’s exciting history of chattel slavery. (WaPo)
Now that Bart Stupak has both been called a baby-killer on the floor of the House and ensured a bright future for America’s coathanger industry, he will maybe retire from the Congress. (CNN)

4/7/10 11:03 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: Bart Stupak, Bob McDonnell, FL-Sen, Marco Rubio, Michael Steele, racism, RNC, Social Security, teabaggers

Hmmm, I wonder what kind of “office supplies” the RNC is purchasing at Congressional Liquors? (Gawker)
Health insurers are doing everything they can to avoid covering sick kids. Obviously, this is to defend ‘Murica from Teh Socializm!
So the teabaggers, many of whom receive Medicare and Social Security benefits, would just love to get rid of Social Security… but probably just for other people. (NYT/ThinkProgress)
Who do those dark-skins think they’re foolin’, with all their fast talkin’? asks former Swift Boater and Charlie Crist supporter Bud Day? (NWF Daily News)

3/30/10 1:01 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: Bud Day, Charlie Crist, FL-Sen, healthcare, racism, RNC, Social Security, teabaggers

Wanker of the Day

Doc Thompson

3/30/10 12:31 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: Doc Thompson, racism, WOTD

How much does RNC Chairman Michael Steele like strippers and bondage? About two thousand of the RNC’s dollars much, apparently. (The Daily Caller)
America’s racists will conveniently label themselves as racists on this year’s census forms. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Your FBI has thwarted a Michigan Christian militia group that had been gearing up to fight the anti-Christ but got bored and decided to kill some cops instead. (Detroit News)
Random C-SPAN caller “Bill” wonders, why do so many black people love Obama, and how did so many of them get phones? (TPM)
Getting ready for tonight’s first Passover seder? Guess what, there’s an app for that. (LA Times)

3/29/10 10:58 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: C-SPAN, FBI, Michael Steele, militia groups, Passover, racism, RNC

Adventures in Reasonable Political Discourse

How many times do we have to hear teabaggers shout “kill the bill, nigger” at Rep. John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights movement, before we can just ignore them?

Also, I wonder who will be the first person to accuse the black congressmen who witnessed the incident of “playing the race card?”

3/20/10 6:49 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: healthcare, John Lewis, racism, teabaggers

All 170 House Republicans joined Democrats to unanimously pass legislation banning fundraising letters that look like official Census mailings, like mailers previously sent by the RNC and NRCC. Woah, actual bipartisanship! (AP)
Doug Hoffman has a new tactic for his second run for Congress: he will actually live in New York’s 23rd district this time. (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
The Oklahoma Senate has passed a bill that would basically opt Oklahoma out of federal hate crimes laws because gays are icky and gross. (The Oklahoman)
A Muslim imam gave the opening prayer in Virginia’s House of Delegates today, even though he is a Muslim! This, of course, was cause for protests outside the state Capitol. (WaPo)

3/11/10 12:52 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: bipartisanship, Doug Hoffman, hate crimes, LGBT equality, NRCC, NY-23, Oklahoma, racism, RNC, Virginia