re: #144 Obdicut

Oh for fuck’s sake, dude, you’re better than that shit.

Really— after the attacks on ACORN, after the attacks on Shirley Sherrod, in the face of the huge numbers of GOP members who think Obama is a Muslim or question where he was born, after the “Black Panthers!!!eleventy!” meme is kept alive for months upon months, after Limbaugh’s constant race-baiting, after the race-based attacks on Sotomayor, after all of this, you still conclude that racism is marginal and has been for decades. So it was marginal in 2000, when McCain was smeared with the rumor he’d fathered an illegitimate black child?

Seriously, dude.

For starters.

Three-fourths of the opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill in the U.S. House came from Democrats, or that 80 percent of the nay vote on the bill in the Senate came from the Democrats. Certainly there is no reference to the fact that the opposition included future Democratic Senate Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (a former Klan member) and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Sr., father of future Vice President Al Gore.

Birmingham, Alabama Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, who infamously unleashed dogs and fire hoses on civil rights protestors, was in fact — yes indeed — both a member of the Democratic National Committee and the Ku Klux Klan.