The greedy people are using racial fear, but they just hate everyone. Period. They want money and their own little group to live well and the rest of us to do all the work.

attention away from the greatest shift in wealth concentration in the US history.

I agree that it's the greedy people (at least 400 of the richest families) who support Robme because having a President in your pocket is a real good investment.... they are the drivers of the crazy bus, but the crazies are jumping on of their own accord.

Do they really understand what they are doing? No, but do they care? No or they'd be on DU or some other place to get real facts and not try to blame it all on the poor etc... in order to bring themselves up at the expense of "those people".

This is so true. There are people who will not vote for Obama because of the color of his skin; and some who cannot understand how, there could be a black president White House.

peace, kpete

Incredible find...and how true it is.

Snapping at the hand that seeks to help them, could save their jobs, their health, this country. Guess it proves this:

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The problem with the GOP culture of death is that while they glady seek to commit national suicide, they intend, like a battering husband, to kill the wife and children who need to escape his abuse, before taking his own life. They are working to destroy everything in this country to have their way.

leave the house anymore because there are n*--ers living nearby and she doesn't want them to even look at her.

BTW, if anyone knows the book, please let me know. It was such a good book, but I read it a few years ago and my poor excuse for a memory has lost the title. I think it was semi-autobiographical by a female journalist who was seriously scarred by her insane parents. She and her brothers were sent to live with the racist grandmother for a while. Googling has gotten me nowhere on this.

who, upon learning I had voted for Obama, said "I can't believe you voted for that n-----". It made my blood boil and I had to walk away.

It's sad that a cartoon that was relevant 150 years ago, is still relevant today. It makes me sick.

Much to my dismay. sigh.

today's kids are just as racist, only are more covert about it.

They have friends of many races and really don't give a shit about skin color.

I was also delighted to see them as teenagers exploring
their own sexuality in an open and healthy way, where
the coolest kids were gay or at least exploring the possibility.

I'm hopeful for the progress of humanity although
sometimes I think there are two distinct subspecies
(at least two) -- and they're evolving in very different
directions. Assuming the earth survives, the tolerant
ones, I believe, will flourish and the sickly mean
bigoted and hateful greedy ones will die off, maybe
eat each other.

I am sure every generation since the civil rights movement (I use this time since that is when racist attitudes were starting to become looked down upon) thought the old racist would die off and usher in a new group of non racist. All those racist did was transfer their ignorance to their children and grandchildren. I absolutely agree that my generation is a lot less racist than previous ones. However, there are still a lot of ignorance in my age group. All you have to do is check out a college frat party during halloween, be in a history/sociology course or be around during black history month on a college campus to see the crap that still occurs.

of television, pornography and the stereotypes those bring out.

No, young people don't drop "n" bombs, but they sure as hell have other racist ideas.

from generation to generation sometimes. The steps are small and incremental. For instance, my grandfather was looked down upon by his family for marrying a German 'DP' (displaced persons). After WW1, my grandmother had come from what WAS Austria-Hungary but was an ethnic German, and was seriously discriminated against here in Canada. So back then, my grandfather (a French-Canadian whose family goes back to the 1600's in Canada) marrying her was regarded as somewhat radical, but 'at least she was Catholic.' Then their children, the oldest 2 sons married the same religion but my oldest aunt decided to marry a Protestant (big deal back then). Then many years later my other aunt married someone who was Metis. Then my youngest (by a lot) aunt, many years later, married someone of East Indian descent. Among my cousins, it's a rainbow of people during our family reunions. My brother married someone who is black. It took my grandparents awhile to accept my East Indian uncle, which was ironic considering the backlash THEY endured when they were married. But the rest of us didn't blink. And when my brother married my SIL, my grandparents didn't even say anything - which means over the years they realized what they did with respect to my uncle was wrong.

Of course, I'm in Canada where multiculturalism is encouraged, but I do think it's getting better overall. Slowly, yes. Think about how difficult it was to be in a mixed marriage 50 years ago, compared to now. Eventually, everyone will just be a mix of all cultures and as that happens, racism will dwindle. I really don't think kids today are 'just as racist'. Not in my area at all.

I strongly believe that my generation is less racist than my parents' generation, and my kids' generation is less racist than mine. All evidence I've seen points to this.

The laws have changed, for one thing. When there are laws that enforce racist beliefs, as there were when I was a child, this encourages people to be racist. When I think about the blatant injustices that were legal when I was a kid, it's mind-boggling. Things really are better now. Most of the hardcore racists are people who were young in the 1950s.

My almost 4 year old grandson, saw a little AA boy and ran over and hugged him. They were talking up a storm and hugged bye again before we left. They played for as long as we were waiting for our lunch. He has no racism whatsoever in his system. Thanks to me, his Mom and Dad and television cartoons, that picture black children and hispanic and asian as well as white children side by side. God Bless Sesame Street, as they started it all. Guess that's why the racists want to do away with it. I believe racism exists and it will color his world eventually, as it did with my boys. Unfortunately, they have lived in Florida for over 20 years among friends who wake up and go to sleep racists. Southern states are not alone with racism. It is just as obvious and prevalent in Northern climes.

As when I was 18 about a million years ago I never saw anything as black and white. I saw people. It just seems to me that we have a very racist situation on our hands. It is escalating! We have GOP politicians saying the most outrageous things, very racist comments and not one person in that party comes out to say that it is wrong. They have become a party of hate! They hate black, they hate women et all. I just don't understand the hate.

well, people of color.

I believe our young citizens are more liberated than there peers. A lot of them have better education than their peers. However the hate and bias runs deep.

made him leave our house for using a racial slur.. so my siblings and I grew up believing that all people should be treated with respect and dignity. Racism was not allowed in our house, thanks to my Mom.

Hatred passed from one generation to the next. Eventually someone will have to stand up and say, enough is enough.

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...it's not like they're going to turn the bigot off on June 7th

I see it is from Harper's Weekly. Doesn't look to me like Nast, though.

to their Race. Gawd, they're stupid... it must fucking suck to be them.

It is my experience that people who are not very successful harbor the worst prejudices. It makes them feel superior, when they are really abject failures. I not saying that this applies to all who are prejudiced, but to a sizable minority. I have lived in the South and have many relatives who reside in Georgia . I can safely say that the majority hold a degree of prejudice. I am thankful that I was raised mostly in the North. As Paul said for the grace of God it could be me.

we will soon find out if they are the majority in our country or if sanity can prevail. God help us if they win again like they did in 2010.

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was featured on Nightline tonight.

If they offer a chance to view it on their website (ABC), I'd recommend it. Scary people.

the Christ of Nazareth.

we are a pressure cooker. Hopefully the pressure relief valve NEVER becomes stuck, closed.

So was this guy:

Which kinda goes to show who is more peaceful and tolerant in the end...

That is a form of resistance that drives the first group around the bend, just being alive and doing well. At one time this came from wingnut groups. Now it's in mainstream media. We should not be in this place in this country.

Where I live is urban and integrated. We have many people from other nations here who don't have this history and are living prosperously, just like the DNC highlighted at the convention. For them, the promise of America with opportunity has come true and they love it here. People are making futures for their families independent of this dead end racist mentality in older areas.

They live in fear that if they lose their dominance it will be because someone else is going to dominate them.

It never occurred to them to share. They believe in winner take all and that makes them think in absolutes. Either you are at the top or the bottom with nothing in between and on top of that they think blacks are out for revenge for they way they were treated because that's what they would do if it happened to them. They have nightmares of white people being shot on sight. Just listen to that KKK report posted elsewhere. They are convinced a time is coming where the races are going to clash. It never occurred to them that the races are going to ignore their race and just be people who are occupying this planet as equals.

No more putting up with nonsense of having idiots running around in the woods with guns thinking someone is coming to get them. It seems crazy because it is. I keep thinking that someone will look for a physiological cause. Maybe something in the gene pool. You know, like an area of the brain that's missing or malformed.

But I remember growing up and having race riots in school (Memphis). Never once would I have thought that we would have a proud black man as our President. Is there still racists and racism? Absolutely, I see it as I drive home on I-75S and see a 50ft Stars & Bars flying just past the MLK exit.

BUT I see multi-racial couples walking down the street holding hands and not being chased down. Once again, does it happen, absolutely. Even one time is to many times. But growing up, that damn near would have been unthinkable.

I think in the next 50 years the Gay & Lesbian community will have equal rights.

I don't live in la-la land and realize there will always be inbred assholes out there that will hate. But they are a dieing breed.

Just my naive opinion

I'm so tired and fed up with the morans.

very, very telling and appropriate for 2012 in amerikan politics and CULTURE. Sad.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

Yep...'Vote for the white dude.' I bet many have to hold their noses to do so, though. I just wish they'd stay home or just skip voting for the president.

We have to evolve to respect each other's common humanity. Some think this will never happen, I disagree. It will happen and in this century for sure.

K&R

settled in at the White House. The drowning racist tea-brain could be relabeled the GOP Congress and statehouses.