"You got me"

Apparently, Trayvon Martin was not your average hoodie-wearing thug who preyed on innocent men that had 100 lbs on him.  He was a hoodie-wearing thug whose patter came right out of 1940s film noir.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Random thoughts In These Great Times,

Tea Party aficionados may not be collectively racist (and, yeah, yeah, I know), but they sure do seem to tolerate racist satirical messages. If they don't like it being lumped in with racist assholes, don't tolerate racist assholes*. In the run up to the war in Iraq, plenty of those protesting were disgusted by the presence of ANSWER and were vocal about it.

Tea Party aficionados appear to be motivated...well besides by astroturf groups...by vague anxiety about losing an America they once thought they had. More to the point, they're certain they're losing entitlements in favor of people not like them.

And their intellectual leader doubles down on their insanity by insisting America stand up to the Islamofascists through religious intolerance. That'll show those towel heads.


* Yes, I know his colleagues in the movement were shocked, shocked by his parody letter and "dismissed him from the movement." I'm sure that amongst friends he's never been known to express those sentiments. He only does it for public consumption.

Reverse racism

A commenter at TNC's place, Jamelle, has it exactly right:

It's been almost two years since America collectively patted itself on the back for electing a black president. And since then, we've proved conclusively that we are a nation of cowards when it comes to race. I'm just wondering when we're going to finally grow up?

We don't know -- maybe never will know -- whether the White House told Vilsack to demand Shirley Sharrod's resignation, or whether Vilsack -- deploring "the unseemly" history of the USDA's history of discrimination against black, native American, and latino farmers -- acted entirely on his own. But I do know this: the administration is now running scared away from any and all accusations of "reverse racism," no matter the disreputable source. They need to stop running and take a stand against these cowards who through edited videos and cabalistic etch-a-sketch blackboards, are willing to destroy people's reputations in order to score points and web traffic.



It doesn't matter now. All the pushback in the world doesn't change these fuckers' sick minds.

UPDATE: Oh, my mistake. Shirley Sharrod is the victim of left wing race-baiting.