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Bob Cesca: The Tea Party Is All About Race

HuffPo I was going to open this piece with an analogy about the tea party groups and why they’re treated seriously by the press and the Republicans. The analogy would go something like: “Imagine [insert left-wing activist group here] getting a serious profile in a mainstream newspaper, and imagine serious Democratic politicians appearing at their convention.”
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Lone Bar State

Drinking while brown. Adam Weinstein/Mother Jones LATE ON A BALMY Saturday night last June, six Fort Worth cops and two officers from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission went looking for trouble. They had just raided two Hispanic bars in an industrial stretch of town and nine detainees now sat in the paddy wagon (pdf), hands bound with [...]
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White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement

Rich Benjamin/AlterNet Editor’s Note: Rich Benjamin’s commentary on the underlying “white grievance” currents in the Tea Party movement were buttressed Thursday by the statements of Republican Tom Tancredo, the opening speaker at the Tea Party convention. Tancredo told attendees that President Barack Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people [...]
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Invoking ‘literacy test,’ Tea Party opening speaker suggests blacks be kept from voting

The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a “literacy test” to protect America from presidents like Obama — a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting. In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying [...]
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James O’Keefe’s race problem

Salon/Max Blumenthal A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment Photo by Isis/Salon composite James O’Keefe, photographed at a white nationalist conference by One People’s Project. Many of the conservatives who gleefully promoted James O’Keefe’s past political stunts are feigning shock at his arrest on charges that he and [...]
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How Members of Congress Are Advancing Anti-Muslim Hysteria to Push a Radical Legal Agenda

Liliana Segura/AlterNet Roughly one month after the massacre at Fort Hood and a little over a week after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the “underwear bomber”) tried to blow himself up over the city of Detroit, one of the most conservative Republicans in the Congress, South Carolina Representative Gresham Barrett, re-introduced a sweeping piece of legislation that he [...]
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Nation: The Haiti Haters

Amy Wilentz/The Nation The Haitian tragedy has opened up a whole new industry for what I call the genteel racist point of view. A week into the crisis I heard an otherwise intelligent report on NPR in which the correspondent opened her piece from Port-au-Prince by declaring that it “is not falling into a…pit of violence,” [...]
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Hey Corporate Media, “Looting” Is a Racist Code Word

Chloe Cockburn, Blog of Rights / Alternet When the news camera captures footage of a Haitian man taking rice, what does it show? Theft? Survival? What if that man is white? In the aftermath of the earthquake, there have been numerous reports of dangerous looting in the capital. (See examples here, here, and here). The Washington [...]
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Some Things That Should Be Obvious | Talking Points Memo

Talking about racism does not make you racist; advocating racism does. via Some Things That Should Be Obvious | Talking Points Memo.
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White Power USA: Neo Nazis in America Gearing Up To Fight “Racial Holy War”?

People & Power Al Jazeera / Axis of Logic / SOTT As the People of the United States are taught increasingly to fear dark skin terrorists attacking our freedoms from exotic, far away lands, most are oblivious to the fact that the terrorists of white extremism are gaining a frightening foothold in the culture.
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