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keep_it_real Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:19 AM
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"I haven't seen this much anger in a long, long time"
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said Billy Roper, a 36-year-old who runs a group called White Revolution in Russellville, Ark. "Nothing has awakened normally complacent white Americans more than the prospect of America having an overtly nonwhite president."

Neo-Nazi and white power groups acknowledge that they have little ability to derail Obama's candidacy, so instead some have decided to take advantage of its potential. White-power leaders who once feared Obama's campaign have come to regard it as a recruiting tool. The groups now portray his candidacy as a vehicle to disenfranchise whites and polarize America.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101471.html?sub=AR
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AnnieBW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:22 AM
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1. Ah.. the cockroaches are starting to come out
from behind the cabinets. Time to get an exterminator.
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:27 AM
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3. It's better when they come out.
Then, at least we can identify them.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:33 AM
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9. and shun them
That is what has to be done if a hate group springs up in your community, and that is what has been done in the town where I work. When the KKK from Zinc sent out a mass mailing against the biggest employer for having a tolerance policy, the Quorum Court (like County Board of Supervisors elsewhere) passed a resolution saying that the opinions expressed in the letter were not ones that the majority of the people agreed with and that, basically, the KKK was stupid. I know of local small businesses who refuse to do business with the KKK folks, and they are not welcomed to public functions.
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mediaman007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:27 AM
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2. Good! Its about time that we deal with this portion of the population.
I hope that they have the guts to get out in front. Then the clear thinkers in the Republican Party can see what has become of their party.

For more than thirty years, the Republicans have been closet racists.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:28 AM
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5. I suspect we'll flush out a few Dems as well
It's stomping time.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:05 PM
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13. yup - bring 'em out into the spotlight.
Let us see who they are.
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ErinBerin84 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:28 AM
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4. overtly nonwhite?
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:30 AM
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7. I know WTF right?
Edited on Tue Jun-24-08 11:30 AM by shadowknows69
As in he's half white but he doesn't look it? I can't dumb myself down enough to grasp that mindset I guess. I'm glad.
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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:53 AM
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11. great phrase- don't think I've heard it expressed that way before. nt
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:04 PM
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12. who knew that racists were so poetic?
Women are "aggressively nonmale" and adults are "visibly nonchildren"
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Donkey_Punch_Dubya Donating Member (170 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:20 PM
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16. Yeah, as opposed to all those "secretly black" politicians that look white
WTF is overtly non-white supposed to mean?
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:34 PM
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18. Gotta wonder what their first clue was?
The shoes? The ties? Maybe they have finally decoded Limpballs subliminal messages?
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:37 PM
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19. "Overtly"="Uppity" in Luntzspeak, is my guess. nt
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ieoeja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:58 PM
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21. I would suspect they have problems with some of the previous White presidents.

Kennedy was both Irish and Catholic either of which could make him subhuman in the eyes of a lot of White Supremicists. I have seen/heard people discussing Lincoln's features and speculating he may have had some Africa-American blood in his ancestry. A few Presidents probably have pre-Columbian Native ancestors.

Did any Presidents have an Italian in their ancestry? Not White. East European? Definitely not White.

Mostly they are just going to convince themselves that any President they didn't like must have had some ancestor who was not Germanic, English, or Nordic.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:29 AM
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6. There are many small hate groups in AR
but what I've noticed is that the average Joe on the street--and we're talking about native Arkansans here--are either embarrassed or angry when you talk about them. It's like they are diseased or something. Not that we don't have our share of racists and people who are scared of blacks (which make up less than 1% of the population here), but they aren't this extreme.
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:31 AM
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8. Recruiting for racists
is a fun pastime --- I like to think of it as the ultimate hazing ritual. They get a free tattoo and we can see for ourselves who is who.

Sick fucks.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 11:37 AM
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10. It worked with a lot of people who used to be here, but are thankfully gone now.
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:11 PM
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14. For those that can, think of donating to Souther Poverty Law Center.
http://www.splcenter.org/center/about.jsp

Their Intelligence Project monitors and prosecutes hate groups and have a very impressive record. They are currently tracking over 800 groups.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intpro.jsp
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:16 PM
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15. But we've seen this much idiocy for far too long a time.
Let's hope that there are fewer and fewer recruits this time around.
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boomerbust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:32 PM
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17. Did you know that
most heterosexuals are NON GAY
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 12:51 PM
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20. he's not seeing anger- he's seeing fear. Their whole agenda is based on anger-
and they are losing.

And that makes them afraid.

:hi:

peace~
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Median Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 01:01 PM
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22. Where Is Fox News Announcing McCain's Support From the KKK?
Afterall, every day, we are hearing random endorsements of Obama by Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Hitler, and other various evil people.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-24-08 01:05 PM
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23. I just posted about this in another thread.
Sick mf-ers!
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