TagsTagsYouTube Video Buzzfeed has posted video of Barack Obama from 1991, when he was president of the Harvard Law Review, speaking at Professor Derrick Bell's protest for diversity. Andrew Kaczynski explains the context of this clip: At Harvard, Obama Dived Into Diversity Fight. It was perhaps Barack Obama's most intense immersion ...
President Obama, Harvard, Protest, Derrick Bell, civil rights, Breitbartocalypse
A pretty amazing statement (and not in a good way) from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who made an argument against a measure legalizing gay marriage by comparing it to the civil rights movement -- and ended up saying that the civil unrest of the 1950s and 60s could have ...
Chris Christie, civil rights, Gay Rights, Jim Crow, Idiocy, WTF
Jim "Dim" Hoft and company are upset that "Bare Naked Islam" has been taken down after a CAIR complaint and FBI investigation. (Note: I'm not a big fan of CAIR as they also have a history of hyper-sensitivity, some bad associations, and in the past they sent the FBI after ...
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As we pointed out on Monday, Andrew Breitbart shamelessly tried to promote a completely fake, utterly dishonest story that Barack Obama "marched with" the New Black Panther Party during a 2007 event in Selma, Alabama. In fact, there were more than 10,000 people at this event, and it had nothing ...
Andrew Breitbart, Race-Baiting, Racism, civil rights, President Obama, New Black Panther Party, Fake, Outrageous Outrage
Another American visionary died today, a man whose influence on the social landscape of the United States cannot be measured: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 89. [Audio] The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a pioneer of the civil rights movement, died Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala. Shuttlesworth led Birmingham's battle against ...
This morning, Andrew Breitbart is peddling yet another race-baiting fake outrage: » Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007 - Big Government. It's a classic example of Breitbart's sleazy smear tactics. Notice that in his whole long overheated screed, Breitbart never actually tells you ...
Andrew Breitbart, civil rights, TIME Magazine, New Black Panther Party, Bill Clinton, Outrageous Outrage, President Obama, Smear
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr. UPDATE at 1/17/11 10:27:31 am PBS NewsHour has a terrific compilation of archival videos, documentaries, commentaries, discussions and reports about King's life, legacy and the Civil Rights movement: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
Rachel Maddow reveals the connections between Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and the racist Council of Conservative Citizens, with photographs: Video
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From the "Saw This Coming" department: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is desperately trying to walk back his statements defending the segregationist White Citizens' Councils: Barbour clarifies: Citizens councils 'indefensible'. When asked why my hometown in Mississippi did not suffer the same racial violence when I was a young man that ...
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TPM writer Eric Kleefeld spoke with Gov. Haley Barbour's official spokesman, Dan Turner, about Barbour's statements in the Weekly Standard praising the segregationist "Citizens' Councils." To recap, here's the quote from the interview: “You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK,” said Barbour. ...
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The meltdown of the Republican Party into a stinky puddle of racist goo is accelerating. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Governor Haley Barbour (R-MS) actually praised the civil rights era white supremacist group known as the "White Citizens' Council." As Barbour recalls it in a new profile in ...
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Ohio Republican House candidate Jim Renacci thinks civil rights is a "local issue:" ‘We Need To Get Our Federal Government Out Of The Way’. It's amazing to hear Republican candidates saying things like this, but it does reveal the modern GOP's agenda -- to rewind all the social progress of the ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, civil rights, Discrimination, State's Rights, segregation
US District Judge Susan Bolton has blocked parts of Arizona’s SB1070 immigration law. And of course, the wingnuts go crazy at Hot Air. These days, practically any story at all provokes ranting about “civil war” from Hot Air commenters: Let’s see, Judges overturning the will of the states….executive moratoriums on drilling, ...
Today the other shoe dropped: Justice Dept. sues, seeks injunction on Ariz. immigration law. The lawsuit says the law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, invoking as its main argument the legal doctrine of “preemption,” which is based on the Constitution’s supremacy clause and says that federal law trumps state statutes. ...
Lunatic Rand Paul announced today that he wants to change the US Constitution to take away the right to automatic citizenship for children born in the United States. Rand Paul is a big believer in the US Constitution. Except those parts of it that have to do with civil rights and ...
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The Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock gets it exactly right in this commentary on Rand Paul’s Civil Rights Act dust-up: Commentary: Rand Paul’s calculated Civil Rights faux pas. Rand Paul is not as politically unsophisticated as the media, tea party organizers and Republican strategists would like you to believe. In the ...
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In an interview with the Russian propaganda network “Russia Today” (a whacked out conspiracy show pretending to be legitimate news; RT often features Alex Jones and other conspiracy advocates), Rand Paul says we should forget that pesky 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and take away the citizenship of children born ...
Rand Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights, Republican Party, Immigration, Constitution
Check out Rand Paul, doin’ the campaign staff shuffle. And gettin’ the GOP establishment makeover. Ditchin’ his dad’s cronies. Not talkin’ ‘bout civil rights no mo’. No, no, no. Doin’. The campaign staff. Shuffle. BOWLING GREEN — Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul said Tuesday he’s planning a campaign staff shake-up a ...
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According to Public Policy Polling, only 58% of Republican primary voters in South Carolina support the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In case you were wondering how Neanderthals like Rand Paul continue to get elected. UPDATE at 5/25/10 11:20:40 am: Meanwhile, according to a poll at the bottom of this page, Fox News ...
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At ReligionDispatches, Sarah Posner has some more data on Rand Paul’s crackpot brand of libertarianism, which is inexplicably mixed with fundamentalist Christianity: Rand Paul: We Wouldn’t Need Laws If Everyone Were Christian. Appearing on The Brody File, Rand Paul, who believes that portions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act need ...
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Tea Party “activists” in New Jersey are looking for the next scalp. Far right race baiter (aka the most influential conservative in America) Rush Limbaugh says Rand Paul is a victim of an “attempt to tar the entire tea party movement.” And Dick Armey also says Rand Paul is a victim of ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights, Dick Armey, Rush Limbaugh
Sarah Palin holds a pity party, with Rand Paul as the guest of honor: Rand Paul is Learning What It’s Like to Be Me, Says Sarah Palin. Palin said that Paul is seeing firsthand how “gotcha” politics work after the libertarian-leaning Republican spent days on defense spelling out his support ...
Idiocy, Sarah Palin, civil rights, GOP, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Ron Paul, Kentucky, Rand Paul
Did you think there was a possibility that the GOP would disavow Rand Paul and his absolutist libertarian craziness? Well, forget it. GOP leaders see Rand Paul (and the tea party movement he represents) as their ticket back to power, and they’re fine with his views on the Civil Rights Act. Sen. ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, civil rights
Rand Paul says he’s too exhausted to appear on Meet The Press tomorrow, but he’s not too exhausted to give interviews to the local Kentucky press, and he says Louisville is still segregated. Which means the Civil Rights Act didn’t work. (In Rand’s private universe, that is.) And in the same ...
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Today Rand Paul said that President Obama’s criticism of British Petroleum is “un-American,” because after all, “accidents happen.” Yes, really. Taking another unconventional stand, Kentucky’s Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil spill Friday as putting “his boot heel on the throat of BP” ...
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