My poor brain was just burning some old bunker oil from storage and was thinking...,
Have the RWNJ made it popular to display your racism to everyone, so that you can "stand up and be counted"?

Just from the yellow "Don't tread on me" flags on private flagpoles among the hobby farms and hobby ranches around here.....we know who they are, and we know what they did last summer.


NADT

People are certainly becoming Less afraid to be open about it, but they are still careful to count it in polite terms. For the moment.

Case in Point: PJMedia blog entry "Please, Please, Call me a Racist"

Except for the slay part.

The rest (of the blog entry) is gibberish and hardly worth skimming, except as a data point for this discussion.

Racism never stopped, it just got quiet because people like us made it harder to show one's face in polite company if one were overtly so.

Ask anyone who lives in the South. Sure, there are pockets of people who share our values, but the racism is institutionalized, so ingrained i suspect most Southerners would say it doesn't exist.

It does. Its just very subtle. It was only in the 70's that segregation began to lift a bit. We moved to Virginia in the late 60's. I remember spring breaks in college, driving down to Lauderdale for some fun. Being a good liberal, from California to boot, I was shocked to see segregated bathrooms and restaurants all the way down I-95.

In Monrovia, CA, a town where at least two FBers have lived, the community swimming pool only let blacks swim on Wednesday afternoons. They then drained and refilled the pool. That didn't changed until the late 70's.

I don't think it's new. It's old.

I think there was a Harvard study published around 1990 in the New Yorker on how the politically correct police would trigger a racist/sexist backlash. Suppressing speech would not suppress attitudes and could actually prove counterproductive, the study argued.
Racism went underground in polite society. It never left. If you notice white southern politicians have learned to skillfully sidestep the issues of racism/sexism when addressing limiting voters' and abortion rights or challenging President Obama eligibility with their extremist base. They just say whatever they're doing is for We the People. They simply wrap everything they say in false patriotism when it really hides their hate.

"Fashion" is a strange measure. Perhaps the question should be about the level of tolerance for racism. The rise of the internet certainly exploded with the expression of racist views. That certainly made it seem like there is more now even though there seem to be less public and open tolerance for it. After 9/11, a lot of it was transferred to anti-Islamic fervor. A lot was also transferred to anti-Mexican illegal alien hysteria. We don't have a good way of dealing with people like Pasture Manning and Pasture Jones with his Koran burnings and hanging president displays.

Is this campaign sending the right message? I think not.

Can you believe this in 2012?

Black couple says opposition at mostly white Miss. church forced a relocation of their wedding



Remainder:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.html

It's considered a badge of honor.

It's going to get worse.

It already has.

http://jezebel.com/5958490/twitter-racists-react-to-that-nigger-getting-reelected/gallery/1

Bet it turned your stomach reading it.

James Carter IV strikes again.


Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy





The whole interview is over there, with Rick Perlstein's analysis.

http://www.thenation.com/article/170841 ... el=youtube

Romney and Ryan fueling the fire with talk of 'urban' voters and gifts for *those* people.

How do y'all like being "those people"????

An answer to the question in the topic title is "Most definitely yes." Current postings by racist bloggers are sufficient to prove the point, but the racists are digging a bit deeper into the history of racism and resurrecting old documents. One of these is "Corruption of Blood," which made an appearance in 1990 and was amended and republished in 2010. Now it is republished again on Fourwinds10.com. This is an anti-Semitic and White Power site that looks to aliens for the salvation of the white race.

In discussing a bill to give residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote,

Racism never really went out of fashion. The pigs just found different ways of packaging their evil product.

Lee Atwater, the architect of this product, described the ad campaign in this way:



Pig rhetoric has remained pretty much exactly the same since Atwater.

The full interview in which he said these things has just recently been republished in its entirety.

I swear the racists are joining on twitter.

This guy call himself 'Black Conservative'. And so 'Patriots' praise him. They tell him how courageous he is. Meanwhile he's tweeting out links to CCoC, American Renaissance, etc.

see if this link works.

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=% ... 2&src=typd

There are some others as well.

Like this guy.



But then he has some time on his hands.


http://www.etruth.com/article/20120416/NEWS01/704169981


https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=r ... n&src=typd

He's not such a people guy as the fake black conservative though. Fake black racist has over 5,000 followers.

There are more.

So I tell his groupies he's not a black conservative at all, but rather a white racist. They block me.

Philadelphia Magazine March 2013 "Being White in Philly: Whites, race, class, and the things that never get said" by Robert Huber.

For those who know Philadelphia from something other than the Amtrak station, does this article ring true? I felt very uncomfortable reading it, which is probably what Huber intended. However, my discomfort depends upon his account of race and class in Philadelphia being true.

Huber's questions are easily turned to the service of racism. His article was picked up in "The Coach Is Right" and then in Free Republic. "The Coach" writes:

This is just a goddamn pack of lies. Any time you see a story about a criminal and they're black, they have a photo, usually a mugshot. You can generally only tell when a report is about a white criminal because there is not a picture.

The article made me uncomfortable as well, but for a few different reasons. May I ramble?

The writer seems to struggle with his own issues...the first that comes to me after reading the entire article is that he does not report speaking with any of the non-white residents. He also relays "stories" from white residents, laying out poignant "I tried to be nice to "these people" but you just can't help them...and the sweet story about how the benevolent white folks allow the little black children to come and trick-or-treat in their neighborhood, but most didn't even bother to dress up! The NERVE!

I think what bothers me the most is how the writer seems to assume that blacks have been offered everything under the sun with civil rights and all at stuff, and they just take advantage of it...that the situations they are in, and how they live, are the result of laziness...sitting around smoking pot, living off government assistance, 'cause you know white people don't do that. And dammit, here we are trying to move into their neighborhoods, bring them up out of squaller and see how they treat us?

I do understand the awkwardness sometimes between diffent races. But the dialog does not begin with false benevolence. That is a high-minded, missionary mistake. But I won't get on that soap box now.

Towards the end of the article, he says this, " Claire, the widow I talked to in Fairmount who was walking her terri-poos, doesn’t worry about saying the wrong thing in her neighborhood, about offending her black neighbors, because she’s confident of her own feelings when it comes to matters of race. But like many people, I yearn for much more: that I could feel the freedom to speak to my African-American neighbors about, say, not only my concerns for my son’s safety living around Temple, but how the inner city needs to get its act together. "

This was an article by a guy who is uncomfortable with race issues, so writes an article about white people being uncomfortable with race by using examples of white people being victims of ... what?

This is, so far as I can tell, just a slightly more polite version of what you see on Stormfront.



Gentrifying a neighborhood often shoots up the property rates, so old people who have been living on a fixed income can suddenly no longer afford to live where they have lived all their lives. And the gentrifiers are apparently completely oblivious as to why they're disliked.

First the hipsters and artists move in, often squatting or otherwise living somewhere marginal, then it develops a cachet that makes it attractive to these bourgeois toads, who move in and wreck it for everyone.

This guy somewhat reminds me of David Brooks in that he appears to have a Magoo-like obliviousness to the unstated messages he is delivering. But unlike Brooks, his unstated messages are ugly and racist.

I was born and grew up in the Philly suburbs. Went to college and law school in Philly and I've worked in Center City for almost 20 years. My daughter went to Temple and lived in North Philadelphia.

I admit I haven't read the article and don't intend to do so, motly because all of the commentary I've read criticizing it. Much of that criticism concerns the failure of the writer to talk to any black people, the whiny tone of the (anonymous) people who were interviewed, and the focus on black-white relations to the exclusion of other minority populations.

I know too many white people who are openly racist in this city to believe any story that contends that whites are so victimized or unable to talk about race. They only can't talk about race the way the want - without being challenged with the factual inaccuracies of their perspective that they are superior to "them."

When I was in college I was driving with one of my roommates and some my friends (not hers) back to our apartment when a couple of young (black) kids tried to beat the traffic light on foot across City Ave. They were probably 12 or 13, and I'm sure they knew better than to cross such a busy street like that, but being young, stupid and invincible they did it anyway. We have all done the same kind of thing at some point. Of course I slowed down, but my roommate said "just go ahead and hit the niglet." I was shocked to hear her say something like that, I didn't know her really well, but that kind of attitude, so casually displayed among people she didn't really know showed me what she really thought. She said it without even thinking. It was so alien to me - to hate someone you didn't know and who had never done anything to you personally so viscerally to say something like that in front of virtual strangers. I told her that if she ever said something like that in front of me I'd never give her another ride. She tried to make it a joke, but it didn't make it better. I actually ended up moving out shortly after that. It was really that upsetting. Still is upsetting, since this happened close to 25 years ago and I think of it every time I drive through that intersection.

Some people resent even the hint that racism still exists in America. Some might say that the only racists in Huber's article are the blacks. Others would claim to be color-blind and to be simply "stating the facts." This must be the new direction of today's "polite" racists.

Huber is the Features Editor of Philadelphia Magazine. He has been writing about crime in the inner city for a while, such as
June 6, 2011 Where Center City Meets North Philly: Can the divide ever be bridged?
Sept. 22, 2011 My Mt. Airy Block Has Been Attacked: What can a neighborhood do?

This article, which I thought was sarcastic, may say more about Huber than he knows. April 28, 2011 "A Devoted Birther Will Never Give Up: My fellow Americans, Barack Hussein Obama is not one of us"

If Huber were to ask my advice, it would be that he lay off writing about race and about crime for a few years. And talk with some of the people about whom you have been writing.