Posts Tagged ‘ racism ’

Crystal Wright: Birthers, Gorillas, Chimps, & Spooks: The GOP’s Favorite Things

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The natives are restless again. It seems the more I try to sell what’s good about the Republican party to my liberal and black friends, fiscal responsibility, limited government and lower taxes, the harder it gets.



Edgar Rivas: Culture of Racism, a Stain on Hispanic Heritage Month

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Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the heroics and triumphs of Hispanics everywhere, but unfortunately, there is one subject that stains the history of the Hispanic: its culture of racism. While in the past, discrimination by Hispanics toward other races has been called merely a product of cultural naiveté and even harmless by Hispanics themselves, this Hispanic is not convinced by the downplaying. The fact is that Hispanic racism has been growing violent and it does not discriminate.

Earlier this year, a UCLA professor (of Mexican descent) called for Mexican revolution and a violent take over of the United States. In his speech, he called white Americans, “frail racist white people,” all the while standing in front of a sign that read, “Hate speech is not free speech!”

In the United States, many Hispanics are no better whether their American or not. There is growing violence from Hispanics towards blacks and members of other races. The Zatlan/Illegal Mexican gangs from Los Angeles have been targeting black Americans for violence. They have declared a war and plan to conduct ethnic cleansing by killing blacks in the area. I remember when I was a member of a Chicano (Mexican-American) gang in East L.A., many of my homies would express their fantasies about assasinating “mayates” (derogotory word for black people) while high on drugs, or intoxicated with alcohol, or not.



Is The Tea Party Racist?

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If black Americans are suffering due to our current economic woes, Obama’s own policies are hardly helping them. The NAACP can’t bitch about “the Man” anymore because the Man is Obama.



Edgar Rivas: Mexico & The Race Card

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Last Tuesday, Mexico joined the Obama administration in a lawsuit against Arizona for its passing of SB1070. Mexican President, Felipe Calderon, said about the law, that it “…opens the door to unacceptable racial discrimination.” But, Mexico itself has a history of unacceptable racial discrimination that continues till this day with no end in sight.

Racism and xenophobia is a part of Mexican culture. Some examples, In the 1930s most Chinese Mexicans and their descendents (No “Anchor Babies” there) were forced out of Mexico and deported to China, and over 300 were massacred, for no other reason than they were Chinese. If you ever heard the Mexican school yard rhyme that starts by saying, “Chino, Chino, Japones…,” you know about the prejudice Mexicans feel for Asians. Mexicans also have a history of denying blacks (The Afro-Mexican) exist in Mexico and degrade them by calling them “Mayates”(Their version of the “N” word). And, they continue to mistreat their indigenous peoples. “Mexico’s biggest and most visible class division is its division between Indians and those of predominantly Spanish and European ancestry. Prejudice against those who are predominantly descended from indigenous peoples is widespread.”



Remembering Byrd’s Racism – FrumForum

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Yesterday, the media was pushing hagiographic narratives about the redemptive story of Robert Byrd’s past on race relations. The moral of the story is that you can always make up for being a racist son-of-a-bitch.



ANDRE HARPER OP-ED: I stand with Alvin Greene

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I don’t know his politics, I don’t know which issues he’s campaigning for, and I don’t know about his background but I do know Democrats. Most importantly, I know racism when I see it. That’s why I’m supporting the candidacy of Alvin Greene in South Carolina. I am not endorsing him but I do endorse his right to run. Liberals hate that I constantly accuse them of being the racists that they are. Too bad. The colossal push to force a black man out of a race he won fairly provides more proof why the Democratic Party is the most racist institution in America today.

The Alvin Greene story reads like a Hollywood script. Here you have a veteran without any political pedigree, get rejected by the party machine then miraculously gets accepted by the people. He achieves the improbable goal of winning his party’s nomination in a statewide race with few resources. Unfortunately for Greene, he has reached far beyond the boundaries reserved for black politicians. He will now suffer the wrath of the Democratic machine because of his ambition and desire to serve his state. While blacks are the most loyal Democrat voters, the party has made it clear that as long as a black person runs for a seat in an all-black district, he won’t have any problem with his party. For the record, Obama doesn’t count. When I say “black,” I am referring to Americans like me that trace their roots to enslaved Africans.



Dennis Sanders: Alternative Right Magazine = Racism?

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I doesn’t go without saying that as an African American, I am offended by all of this. But what really bugs me is that sites like Alternative Right will just feed into the belief that all conservatives are racists and that black conservatives and Republicans are “Uncle Toms,” ashamed of the African American heritage. It makes people think that conservatism is a racist ideology, something that it is not.

I have long advocated a Big Tent Republican Party. In the past, that has meant accepting moderates within the party. But it also means accepting people from every race and creed to represent what America is: e pluribus unum- out of many, one.



NRAAC National Chair Wants GOP to First Clean Up It’s Own House

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We have some serious problems within the Republican Party; especially down South. This is not to say that all White Republicans are racists. There are many who are not. Nor are all African Americans who are Republicans experiencing this kind of treatment. There are some in states such as California and Ohio who have had the luxury of acceptance and have been embraced by party leadership. However, in states such as Tennessee, unfortunately, this has not been the case.



JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS OP-ED: Harry Reid is not a Racist

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Harry Reid is not racist and Republican calls for his resignation are misguided. There I said it.



RBE President Don Scoggins – Where Do We Go From Here?

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The President of “Republicans for Black Empowerment” responds to the Harry Reid incident.



TRAVIS JOHNSON OP-ED : Racism You Can Believe In

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Democratic form of racism is more insidious and more vile because it hides behind a veil of altruism.



NADRA ENZI OP-ED: PERILS OF BLACK MALE INVISIBILITY

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Author Ralph Ellison once wrote a racial revelation called, ” Invisible Man. ” As one of millions who’ve lived that title I can say being one is an ungodly waste of talent.Our invisibility is a function of choice, in this instance the choices of other people and their low opinions. This imposed invisibility is also very selective.



King of the Blacks

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Last year I attended the honor roll ceremony and the vast majority of the students receiving certificates were Asian. I didn’t enter the auditorium prepared to count heads, but it was hard to miss the fact that every other child walking across the stage had an Asian surname. Nor was it difficult to miss the 3 Black faces sitting amongst the rows of eager and happy students.

Conventional wisdom says that black parents are less actively involved in their children’s education; that there exists an anti-intellectualism in the black community such that academic achievement is seen as acting white; that Black students do not read or write as well as their white and Asian Counterparts and that the middle class achievement gap is due to racism as opposed to a gap in work habits. In addition, convention says Black boys are angry, prone to violence and better athletes than they are academics. And sometimes we black folk do things that play into the mythology.



Hip-Hop Republican Shirley Husar Guests On Paxstereo

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Hip-Hop Republican’s LA Rep Shirley Hussar on Morning Coffee with Mario Talk Show Series: The show focus for the day is politics.



I’m not a Racist…I’m a Democrat

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Racism is not the the sole domain of Republicans, Conservatives or Southerners. Not all racists pepper their conversation with the N-word or secretly desire the extermination of black and brown people. Racism is complex, multi-layered, and deeply rooted in the American story. Name calling is not helpful in uprooting racism, but neither is a false sense of moral superiority.