There. I said it.
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Hate
One more thing: Obama promotes bigotry and hatred every time he says "illegal immigrant"
Lynch Mobbing 2.0 : On "Hussein" as the new "Nigger"
Khaled Hosseini is the author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns", and he has some strong opinions about the use of "Hussein" as a dirty word and a call to violence against Barack Obama :
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"That One"
Time for a new banner!
Last night was the second debate between Barack Obama and John McCain and boy was it awful. A "town hall" that wasn't thanks in part to the campaigns negotiating terms in which nobody can ask follow up questions and/or have a true conversation that may have their candidates veer from the pre-approved script.
In other words, a world of political crap. Well, almost.
If anything, last night's debate was a night of contrast and compare of demeanors, poise and class between the two candidates. Guess who lost. Yup, the white guy :
[ Senator McCain ] By the way, my friends, I know you grow a little weary with this back-and-forth. It was an energy bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies, and it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney.
You know who voted for it? You might never know. That one. You know who voted against it? Me. I have fought time after time against these pork barrel -- these bills that come to the floor and they have all kinds of goodies and all kinds of things in them for everybody and they buy off the votes.
A lot of people had a "WTF?!?!" moment over McCain's uttered contempt for Obama. You just could smell the hate seeping through the TV screen.
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Going from talking about Michelle Obama to not voting for no nigger
Wow. Just wow.
Certainly there is much talk today about ‘what Michelle Obama’ said, and really meant. Many kinds of talk and opinion… various people have been discussing or debating or just flatly carrying on about what Michelle Obama meant or didn’t mean, and weighing in on her character, brainpower, heart, or lack of such, etc. (Her husband, later said she meant her words more narrowly with regard to the political process wherein people stood up for change.)
My thoughts however, keep returning to another matter entirely. I’m not new to scabrous words. This man’s outburst at Starbucks is not the first, but merely the elevendy-millionth time as a woman from a minority group myself, I’ve heard such or been felled by such words personally.
BUT, especially since being flash-shot by this man at Starbucks bellowing about “a nigger only gonna be president over my dead and burning body,†….I rode the Time Machine back over the many decades I’ve be blessed to live thus far, and I see, with immediacy, how far we’ve come in this nation… meaning, that yes, any of us minority persons can be objected to publicly nowadays, and called names out loud, in print, in front of and behind backs….
but NOT immediately and with full looking away by all authorities and cronies, be dragged to the dark of the woods and dealt an ‘inch of one’s life’ beating, or death with finality, there…
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Just to be perfectly clear...
...Culture Kitchen does not tolerate anti-Semitism. Not of the classic Protocols of the Elders of Zion variety. Not of the newer Israel = Nazi Germany variety. In short, we do not tolerate any flavor or variant of this:
There are plenty of criticisms to be made of the State of Israel. If someone has a problem with religious fundamentalism in general, then some practices and observances of ultra-Orthodox Judaism offer opportunities for critique, just as do fundamentalist Christianity and fundamentalist Islam. There are even a good number of Jews - Paul Wolfowitz springs immediately to mind - deserving of the harshest ridicule.
What is intolerable, however, and a fruit of the oldest hatred still alive in the world, with the stench of the gas chambers permanently attached to it, is this:
Seen through the eyes of an anti-semite, Jews are essentially alien, powerful, cohesive, cunning, parasitic, and so on.
For this view, we have neither patience nor tolerance. Expression of these or similar opinions will result in an immediate banning. If you hate Jews as Jews, or Jewish institutions because they are Jewish, this is not the place for you.
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Cashing in on hate
The truth is that as a woman, a woman of color, and specifically an African American woman, the insults come so fast and furious that there’s always the danger of becoming overwhelmed and de-sensitized.
Sad to say, but I’m used to hearing black and brown women being call “bitch†“ho†“skank†“skeazer†“gold digger†or some variation of all of the above in popular songs and music videos. “Norbit,†Eddie Murphy’s current movie, may be the most recent example of a black man putting on a dress and playing the fat, ignorant, loud, brown-skinned black woman as an object of ridicule and revulsion, you can bet it won’t be the last. And check out “Flavor of Love,†VH1’s hit show in which women demean themselves in an effort to get Flava Flav - brought beneath low since his high as a member of the seriously political rap group Public Enemy - to choose them.
What these three have in common is that they demean black women, earn handsome profits for their corporate sponsors, and for the most part exist devoid of criticism.
