tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post8024470800391098860..comments2024-03-20T12:34:55.100-05:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: It’s The Racism, StupidJim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-90508570274924527512016-11-02T09:26:21.847-05:002016-11-02T09:26:21.847-05:00From the comment above by Mike Hill, "The GOP...From the comment above by Mike Hill, "The GOP needed a bath, and I think they got one. Let's see if they can come out smelling better next time."<br /> <br />It's November 2, 2016 now. That bath has turned into a four-year-long skinny dip in the cesspool. The stench is horrific. <br /><br />A few braver, wiser souls have climbed the ladder out of the pit, and some have even scraped off the slime and move away from the slippery edge. The GOP leadership seems content to stay neck deep in the muck, grasping a bar of soap with one hand and giving out shovels with the other.<br /><br />I do have hope that we will collectively choose higher ground next Tuesday.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12516440326378662762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-20833889709595621662013-07-08T12:50:05.688-05:002013-07-08T12:50:05.688-05:00Except bacon doesn't kill people. Tell 'e...Except bacon doesn't kill people. Tell 'em to go vegan, it'll work faster.Dana Seilhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11749354913843954242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-133470744447928392013-07-08T12:49:31.639-05:002013-07-08T12:49:31.639-05:00Most Americans either are ignorant of the fact, or...Most Americans either are ignorant of the fact, or will not admit the fact exists, that Republicans used to be the more liberal party and Democrats the more conservative. The liberals and conservatives swapped places, as M.C. says above, during the Civil Rights era. I have had to inform people of this in lots and lots of online conversations when I see Republicans claiming that today's Democratic Party is the exact same one that was pro-slavery 150 years ago.Dana Seilhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11749354913843954242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-1966091108726370142013-03-24T18:50:09.740-05:002013-03-24T18:50:09.740-05:00First let me say that I respect your service in th...First let me say that I respect your service in the military. I have two sons currently in the military; one in the Army and the other in the Naval ROTC Program at the University of Notre. <br /><br />Also my wife, Carol Mc Croskey who passed away from thoracic lumbar cancer seven years ago, served in the military in the late 1970s.<br /><br />I need to make this short because I truly think we are from different tribes. I take issue with your characterization of Republicans and Conservatives. “The people of which you speak, “I do not know.”<br /><br />As a Tea Party member and an “American” who happens to be Black, I have never met anyone who is racist within the movement. <br /><br />Most of us are concerned about the political….social…….and financial health of this nation.<br /><br />In regards to the Republicans and Conservatives chances in coming elections, I do agree with you wholeheartedly; but for very different reasons.<br /><br />I don’t see how we can ever win again, not because of a “latent intractable racism.” Conservatives (and not necessary Republicans) don’t appeal to the worst in human nature. We simply can’t be the “Santa Claus Party.”<br /><br />(For Example) <br /><br />The wards of the state/entitlement mentality that is systemic to the Black community (controlled by democrats since the 1970s) has been a disaster in far too many urban areas. The over reliance on government solutions among Black Democrats has done more to truncate any real progress that was made in the Post-Civil Rights Era. <br /><br />Our President is a master at appealing to our lesser angels.<br /><br />http://www.freedomsjournal.net/2012/02/08/our-lesser-angels/<br /><br />But he has and continues to be extremely effective in garnishing the votes of Latinos and others partial to the Siren call of identity politics. <br /><br /> I think there are racists in both the democrat and republican parties but it has been my observation over the last 45 years, that the latter don’t play the race/class/gender card nearly as much as the modern day democratic party seems to be fond of.<br /><br />Once again, I just don’t see, nor have I experienced anything among modern day Conservatives and Republicans that is inherently racist. <br /><br />I have always felt that I have been treated as a person and judge by the content of my character by the vast majority of Republicans and Conservatives.<br /><br />To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., (also a Republican), we need to get beyond those things which divide us. <br /><br />We are American first, and not Gay Americans, Black Americans. Latino Americans, et al.<br /><br />http://www.freedomsjournal.net/2013/02/20/just-american-please/<br /><br /><br />God Bless<br />Patrick<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-72398345378997502242012-12-11T18:49:06.847-06:002012-12-11T18:49:06.847-06:00Hope you don't mind, I saved this post in its ...Hope you don't mind, I saved this post in its entirety to my personal archive for future reference. As a hoarder of good knowledge and well written commentary, I believe such should be protected from those who would undermine the general well being for personal gain.<br /><br />With utmost respect,<br /><br />Active Duty Chief Warrant Officer TwoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-23180545910532332922012-11-29T23:42:19.168-06:002012-11-29T23:42:19.168-06:00Hey, speaking as part of the 47%, I wonder. Mr. W...Hey, speaking as part of the 47%, I wonder. Mr. Wright, if you want to see another disgruntled person's reaction to the 47% crap, drop me a line by my google account.<br /><br />I think you'd enjoy it. I doubt you'd find it annoying.<br /><br />sign me<br />Retired Research Scientist.audioskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13696374655495133407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-58510128732737537082012-11-29T23:42:06.371-06:002012-11-29T23:42:06.371-06:00Hey, speaking as part of the 47%, I wonder. Mr. W...Hey, speaking as part of the 47%, I wonder. Mr. Wright, if you want to see another disgruntled person's reaction to the 47% crap, drop me a line by my google account.<br /><br />I think you'd enjoy it. I doubt you'd find it annoying.<br /><br />sign me<br />Retired Research Scientist.audioskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13696374655495133407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-24968003942726769942012-11-28T19:44:11.990-06:002012-11-28T19:44:11.990-06:00Jim,this need to be said.Bravo.racism is ignorant....Jim,this need to be said.Bravo.racism is ignorant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-34517735029654839332012-11-28T18:29:26.197-06:002012-11-28T18:29:26.197-06:00Electoral College voting is done in each state, wi...Electoral College voting is done in each state, with the sealed votes going to the US Senate to be counted. No Electoral College quorum is needed nor technically ever happens since they never meet as a group. The President is decided by a simple majority of the total possible EC votes, and President Obama has much more than that. This will never involve the House of Representatives. The Tea Baggers are historically illiterate as well as nuts for even bringing this up, but we (at least 53% of the country) knew that. <br />See <br />http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/27/1165189/-Deny-Quorum-in-Electoral-College-Good-Luck-With-That<br />and <br />http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2012/11/28/obama-electoral-college-tea-party-judson-phillips/1731291/<br /><br />Yes, *if* the vote went to the House, then the President should get 26 states, assuming the Representatives voted like the majority of their states' voters instead of along partisan lines. The majority of Ohio, Texas, and other states' Representatives are Republicans due to district gerrymandering, not split between D's and R's like the popular vote. That is why the country has a disproportionate number of GOP House Representatives but a majority of Dem Senators. The Tea Baggers were hoping the House Reps would undemocratically and despotically throw their consitutents votes away, like the fascists they are at heart. <br /><br />By the way, the word is spelled "horde". A hoard is the pile of gold a dragon or a Tea Bagger or other monster sits upon. Jerry A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01835584492326180042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-76767688721527782612012-11-26T16:59:11.636-06:002012-11-26T16:59:11.636-06:00Excellent post as always.
A tertiary point, not q...Excellent post as always.<br /><br />A tertiary point, not quite a nit-pick. If the electoral college were stalled, the vote would go to the House, but the Republican control would not necessarily do what you think. It turns out (my civics are rusty, too) that it's one vote "per state" in the House, not per-Rep.<br /><br />See the end of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHEDXzOfENI (also, this narrator is awesome, he has lots of great videos about voting, gerrymandering, and such)<br /><br />And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)#Contingent_presidential_election_by_House<br /><br />So it might be closer than you think, or even go to the Democrats, since it's the big states that are red and the hoard of tiny ones that are blue.<br /><br />Knowin' is half the battle! :-)eruciformhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07173668707168371412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-823331063748695672012-11-26T16:26:39.246-06:002012-11-26T16:26:39.246-06:00To better understand why the GOP is full of racist...To better understand why the GOP is full of racists, read the May 19, 1970 New York Times interview with Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips, the master-mind behind Nixon's "southern strategy". If you're tired of the phony "I'm not a racist" BS from your race-baiting GOP friends, the interview is a refreshingly candid discussion of who the GOP platform was designed to appeal to and why. I'm a white woman who grew up in the south and have been hearing since the mid '60's how the Democrats are the negro party (not their exact words)so Phillips' straight-forward honesty was a nice change. After reading the interview I'm convinced that racism, homophobia and mysogeny are so intergral to the GOP's very being if the Republican Party didn't actively continue to appeal to those folks the party would just cease to exist. Fiscal responsibility you say? Give me a break! When they first embraced the Southern Strategy in the 1960's, the GOP sold their soul to the devil and maybe, just maybe that devil started to die on Nov 6, 2012.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-46840511082718766592012-11-25T16:52:08.057-06:002012-11-25T16:52:08.057-06:00Let the Tea Party be their own party....Republican...Let the Tea Party be their own party....Republicans? Take your party back and allow them to sink or swim....you don't need them. Stop propping up these radicals because you are afraid you won't win without them....you lost because you are pandered to the dark side too long and we, "real" Americans, can't stomach it any longer.<br /><br />Listen up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-23533036337904553072012-11-25T13:11:17.238-06:002012-11-25T13:11:17.238-06:00So, if Judson Phillips has his way and gets the El...So, if Judson Phillips has his way and gets the Electoral College conservatives to strike, are they going to elect Mitt Romney that all the the GOP have been publicly throwing under the bus since the election? Well, that would be stupid! Oh, wait..... Bonnienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-20827948356242085182012-11-25T12:44:57.043-06:002012-11-25T12:44:57.043-06:00FWIW, I've seen the 47% number floating around...FWIW, I've seen the 47% number floating around conservative postings on the interwebs for quite awhile. Fortunately Romney had the poor judgement to give it air outside the echo chamber. I'd research the origin (perhaps already done by JW previously?) but I'm too busy catching up on past posts here. My response to those numbers was generally to contrast corporate welfare being a much larger dollar % of the budget. That those commenters were racist had been previously established, many times admittedly so. <br /><br />In other news, relevant irony dept., final election results show Romney with 47% of the vote. Don in Waconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-86574711971521177642012-11-25T11:10:00.360-06:002012-11-25T11:10:00.360-06:00Thank you for doing the necessary research ANDayin...Thank you for doing the necessary research ANDaying out the entire argument so effectivelyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-26592807085428194622012-11-25T08:16:20.481-06:002012-11-25T08:16:20.481-06:00“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be host...“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.” Anaïs Ninneocelthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749768101955435672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-41324424182660034212012-11-25T01:38:39.887-06:002012-11-25T01:38:39.887-06:00hey, your rants really make me laugh (the "pe...hey, your rants really make me laugh (the "perhaps you should pray that Jesus will return in time to help you pull your head out of your ass" comment was milk-through-the-nose funny), but i googled "sashia and malia" and went through ten pages of results and i didn't see anything remotely racist, much less nauseatingly racist.<br /><br />i googled "sashia and malia" and "moochelle" and also came up empty-handed. <br /><br />i even googled "sashia and malia" and "obumer" and out of the handful of hits for that combination, this very blog post was #2. <br /><br />what search terms were you using?mercurial ohearnhttp://www.facebook.com/mercurial.ohearnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-52620989590418692662012-11-24T23:20:42.296-06:002012-11-24T23:20:42.296-06:00One more thing to be thankful for...
Jim Wright s...One more thing to be thankful for...<br /><br />Jim Wright saying what needs to be said.<br />Hagar the Horriblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835631471335088847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-17845201625825202912012-11-24T22:11:16.580-06:002012-11-24T22:11:16.580-06:00Jim is right, Joe. However...
I'm sorry to bu...Jim is right, Joe. However...<br /><br />I'm sorry to burst your bubble, Jim, but anyone who would (continue to) help his fellow citizens instead of turning his back *is* a gentleman. In the U.S.A., being a gentleman is based on what good you do in your life and the honor you uphold, not your accent, rank or birth. That's one of our advantages. The Mustangs I've met may have been lewd, crude, and socially unacceptable, but I'd rather have them watching my back than anyone who knows which of five forks to use at a tea party. Or a Tea Party, for that matter, when my back would also need protection. Jerry A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01835584492326180042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-24325168089714309922012-11-24T18:39:00.764-06:002012-11-24T18:39:00.764-06:00You are by far my favorite online read and
you are...You are by far my favorite online read and<br />you are right by not feeding the trolls.I see a lot of trolls like these on YouTube videos comments. Their only mission is to spew hate across the internet. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14492920296422165463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-8721882439931049642012-11-24T17:28:57.648-06:002012-11-24T17:28:57.648-06:00Very well said! Living in Florida and having famil...Very well said! Living in Florida and having family members who actually believe Fox is a News channel for real truly does wear me down, being as I'm disabled and struggling (very much unlike them) you get tired of the "everyone just needs to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and go to work!" mentality. I can't wear boots... They'd look silly in my wheelchair anyway. ~sigh~<br />Finding Jim and every one of these wonderful folks who've left so many awesome comments really gives me faith in humans that has been very sadly lacking.Heather Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13154798618976679853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-61311570718615863552012-11-24T17:19:59.870-06:002012-11-24T17:19:59.870-06:00Oh my dear Lady, how you've made me smile for ...Oh my dear Lady, how you've made me smile for the 2nd time about Florida! (The first time since I moved here in '04 was when Obama won Florida!) It does my heart good to see there actually ARE a few people here that use their brains! (Well, ok, along with my hubby who's actually from Mi., you would make # 2 that I've seen so far) This is a horrible place to live as a female, let alone a "liberal" one! Thank you for adding to my hope for this silly state I'm stuck in! Thank you, thank you!<br />(No GOP morons would ever even TALK to me! All you need to do is be visibly disabled- which I am -and have many tattoos in a state that is too hot to wear clothing enough to cover them all! It works like a charm! :D )Heather Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13154798618976679853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-30656638710382131102012-11-24T15:10:10.199-06:002012-11-24T15:10:10.199-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Heather Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13154798618976679853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-37721824921479087812012-11-24T14:12:06.792-06:002012-11-24T14:12:06.792-06:00Have you been reading my mind?
Have you and I bee...Have you been reading my mind?<br /><br />Have you and I been communicating telepathically?<br /><br />Are you reading my emails? <br /><br />As I have been saying this the whole election cycle. Bigotry is so obvious, it had an odor. A stench that can make a person gag and retch. A feted smell that can permeate and rot a man's mind,,, if allowed,,, if INVITED. Kind of like Vampires, you have to ASK it into your home. Once inside, it can take over and control the man with little effort, and maybe some Budweiser. There it sits, reminding the man of who he is. "That's right," the stench says,"you're Big Oil, Insurance Companies, Bankers, and war mongers. So we can't let those stupid liberals continue to interfere with our way of life. Cause it is pretty near perfect for me." But the stench is NOT thinking of the man. Not so much.<br />What does it do? It feeds itself(inflammatory media and bat shit crazy pundits) and spreads among the man's circle. Killing off all REAL intelligence. Preferring the man to have a more Football/NASCAR mentality. (drink, shout, drink, shout drink, fight, drink, crash car, drink, fight, drink, shout, etc) Then there is no time left to really look at their lives, their country, their world. They can and will believe WHATEVER the stench tells them. They "got no time" for the real truth. No time to do some basic searches on the web to find a different layer of truth.(Although some do use it to go look for things that smell even worse......) Nor do they even consider getting information from EDUCATED people, preferring to grasp onto ideas from college dropouts, drug addicts and witch doctors. That's because they were never paying attention, in any school they attended. History,,,,, a strange and wonderful thing. One of those things that if left unattended, will come back to bite one in its ass.<br /><br />The GOP needed a bath, and I think they got one. Let's see if they can come out smelling better next time. Mike Footnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-37175417200277145702012-11-24T14:08:18.337-06:002012-11-24T14:08:18.337-06:00Dear Mr.Wright,
This is my first time coming to y...Dear Mr.Wright,<br /><br />This is my first time coming to your site. I really enjoyed reading this article. Your writing style reminds me of Tim Wise, another straightwhitemale who has the integrity, moral courage and fierce intelligence to specifically and unequivocally condemn racism in no uncertain terms. It is crucial that straightwhitemales clearly, forcefully and consistently speak out against racism, misogyny and homophobia. I think that may be the only way things will change. So I thank you very much. <br />Prior to writing my comment, I diligently read your commenting rules in their (not "they're") entirety and have done my best to comply. I didn't want to get yelled at. I'm a ballerina. Gia Gracielle Galeanonoreply@blogger.com