Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in TN
17 June 2009 7:38 am by Jane Austen
http://tinyurl.com/lp59rj
A collage of past Presidents and the current President was sent out by a politician’s office in TN. Look at the collage and tell me what is wrong with people who still think like this. I feel as though it’s the 1950s all over again. I’m aghast at this reprehensible display of prejudice. What in God’s name is wrong with these people? Will it ever stop?
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Her explanation is “she sent it to the wrong list.” As if that’s an excuse. The aide who sent it out needs to be fired!
She sent it to the wrong list? What she meant to say was, it was supposed to only go out to my racist buddies. Why does this women still have a job? Say’s something about the repug party in Tenn.
What I get the biggest kick out of is when these racist pigs get caught through their own stupidity(well they ARE repugnantklaners aren’t they?) they whine and snivel. If you’re going to be a racist repugnantklaner at least have the courage to OWN UP TO IT!
angels81 says:
17 June 2009 at 7:49 am
My hubby grew up in TN when his dad wasn’t being sent all over the world or the US by the Air Force and he tells me stories about the attitudes of “whites” in TN that make my hair curl. I still can’t believe that people still think like this. Is this ignorance or is it a part of their DNA? I don’t mean to belabor the point but I thought we had put this stuff behind us with the exception of the “die-hard” bigots. But even in NY I’m hearing this kind of rhetoric from some of my neighbors.
It is one of the most despicable things I’ve ever seen. And to think that someone thinks it should be overlooked as beeing sent out to the wrong email list. If nothing else, she should be fired for terminal stupidity.
Jane, racism is alive and well in America. The only thing that has really changed, is that people keep it to themseleves, and are not so outspoken about it like they used to be. The hope for America is the youth of this country, which seems to have really shed the whole racist dogma. I have meet racists who voted for Obama, but still believe that people of color are inferior human beings. America still has a long way to go.
But while it seems that it is always easier to see the racism in the southern regions (perhaps because they openly embraced it for so long, we shouldn’t forget Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Bensonhurst, etc.
Which brings me to ponder why we don’t consider more racism that is NOT based on color alone. It is oft dismissed as something more quaint ant less evil – tribalism. It isn’t. Start in the Balkans ………and around the world you go.
angels81
I think you are right in part – our children will learn what they are taught – and it seems fewer parents are teaching hate. I certainly don’t think they spring forth as babes able to fend off the malignant teachings of their elders. There parents and elders find it unacceptable to teach the children they love – hate.
I’ve taken my grandson often to a McD’s with a large enclosed playground. There is usually a fair distribution of hispanics, African Americans, whites and Asians. They play – play happily, play without rancor and , I think, provide a good lesson to their parents and elders who drove the car there.
them there by car
Jane Austen says:
17 June 2009 at 7:40 am
Her explanation is “she sent it to the wrong list.”
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she meant to send it to the “Von Brunn Fan Club” mailing list.
The upside in this is the more it is exposed to the light of day the less acceptable it becomes.
Regarding my point in the GLBT thread yesterday about the “state by state” strategy, ie: depending on the general public to vote for civil rights for gays, I said that if civil rights were only given to those whom a majority in each state voted to give them to, that there would still be Jim Crow laws in the south.
This current thread proves my point.
There is no explanation beyond:
She’s racist
She’s a bigot
She’s stupid
She’s really ignorant
I agreed with you yesterday and I agree with you today.
Do you think the woman who sent the email is the same person who created it? Or was just following instructions?
AliceP
Based on how she sent it out – do you really think she’ smart enough to create it?
djjl says:
“17 June 2009 at 10:04 am
There is no explanation beyond:
She’s racist
She’s a bigot
She’s stupid
She’s really ignorant”
Other then replacing she with they’re you got it djjl.
Although thinking back, remember that video of the IsraeloAmerican “youth” in Israel? It ain’t just the repugs who are stone cold racists.
I agree secular. It is certainly not that all racism is between those of varying color.