Obama: America's 'Deeply Rooted' Racism Will Take Time To Tackle
Even more, now that our first black President made it worse.
In the conservatives version of history I've personally heard spoken of many times, the slaves didn't really have it as bad as some say. No, they were given a place to live and a livelihood. They seem to interpret that movie, Song of the South, as if it was meant as a biographical depiction of how happy slaves really were.
No doubt, in this depiction of history, people who were trying to set the slaves free were rabble rousers who fostered race hatred by trying to disrupt an equitable system that provide the po' Black folk with a job and a home.
Do conservatives really think most people that that kind of tripe seriously? It only serves to make conservatives look like the racists other people say they are.
What the hell are you yammering about?
Genius, nobody cares about that shit.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. All I know is that at one time I didn't have a problem voting for a Republican candidate if and when I thought he was the better person for the job. At this point, I would NEVER vote for a Republican as long as lying conservatives have a lock on the party apparatus because my experience has shown me two things that are undeniably true in my experience.
Point one, I've already made. They're shameless and unapologetic liars who absolutely cannot be trusted.
Point two is that they're incompetent due either to their ideological fervor which prevents them from pursuing pragmatic solutions which may fall outside of their ideological orthodoxy, OR they intentionally run the gov't into the ground so they can later stand back and say that gov't is not the solution. Either way, a lot of people, whether liberal, moderate, or conservative, get shafted by such blatant incompetence.
Right now, conservatives have the House and the Senate. Put another conservative in the WH and watch them do the same thing to the economy that Bush did. Watch them turn every gov't agency into organizations that worked like FEMA after Hurricane Katrina when it couldn't get Federal Gov't emergency help to the middle of the country for four full days after the hurricane. Watch them turn the SEC into the lapdog for Wall Street crooks. Watch them as they turn the EPA into a toothless agency that can't even prevent pollution from poisoning our lakes and rivers. Watch them turn the FDA into an organization that turns a blind eye to food inspections. Then someone will propose market-based solutions which is just another way of saying trust without verifying a damn thing. And they'll all get off Scot-free because the fix will be in from the start.
