For all of You Bashing Rev. Wright: Racism & Sexism Are Alive and Well

Over at Delaware Politics they have made a disturbing little heartland industry of bashing Barack Obama's Reverend Jeremiah Wright whose comments sparked a national debate with "right wing liberator cum-aggressor" and militia agitator Sean Hannity.

But for all the racists it seems to be OK since The Hon. James David Manning Ph.D. of Atlah Ministries gave Obama a tacit endorsement by way of breasts and trashy white women.

Proving once again why we need a clear seperation of church and state- "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."

But as if to prove to you that it is not only fun for racists to attack African-Americans but also fun to bash Gays, the folks at North Dakota State University have proven , once again, that we have NOT always moved as far as we thought in race relations and we are at a standstill in our national discourse about people who are gays or lesbians.

This is clearly illustrated when one student noted "we like to dress up in blackface." I bet they also like to whistle dixie.

So not only do racists like to bash Presidential candidates, but they like to bash African-Americans and gays generally. And do not think it is is an isolated phenomena, not only at NDSU, but also at that bastion of tolerance Emory University. Even Clemson.

Keep that in mind next time you feel complled to yell "go Clemson Tigers...."

However nothing quite matches the Veteran Dispatch's "Son of a Luo Tribesman" post that compares Obama to a goat herder, or maybe that was one of the other racist rants.

Now I could and want to go off the deep end admonishing all the racist homophobes on the virtue of libertarian tolerance; but I know all of this racism and homophobia comes from and is simply a reflection of the down south, out-west insane square state values permeating our culture at the moment. I mean the South Will Rise Again right?

I do not know ask Fox News who "eloquently" prove that racism when it is not addressed cuts in every direction. Institutional racism is still racism no matter who it touches it degrades the fundamental dignity of the human person and lowers our political discourse.

At least Obama talked to Americans as if they were adults when it came to race.

The disappointing news is that many Americans are not adults. And it appears many cannot overcome their own delusions and psychological projections.

The good news is, I can express my outrage over this lack of tolerance without going ape-shit crazy and telling you a-holes to go back to Alabama or whatever.

But I have seen how much worse what you racist and homophobic screed people are saying. So I am going to continue to advocate tolerance and respect your first amendment right to make an ass out of yourself. And express my disapproval by noting that anytime you use race or sexuality as a political weapon, you are demeaning the principles of freedom, liberty and equality.

Why not just stamp Farakhan or Commie African Tribesman all over the man who could be your next president?

For all of you living with the delusion we live in a "color blind society" I cannot add anything here.

A Libertarian Martin Luther King Jr. Day post

In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here: chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.” The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...

Libertarian National Committee Deathwatch Part 1

As the LNC continues to lurch towards collapse, with the latest news of mass layoffs at HQ, I've decided to begin tracking those things leading the national party to irrelevance, even as state and local parties gain power. As news, rumors and rhetoric break out, I shall chronicle them in this ongoing series at Delaware Libertarian. Organizations approaching failure have a number of characteristics. One of the most striking is renunciation of their purpose and effort to reinvent themselves as a "me-too" provider of services in the marketplace. In this, the LNC has been on a collision course with destiny for a while now. Recently, for example, it hired Republican Party web site developer TerraEclipse to redesign the LNC web site . Terra created a web site very similar to those of the clients it brags most about -- far-right Republican conservatives like Tom McClintock and BJ Lawson. A quick look at the web site they built for the LNC is instructive. The tagline on the ...

The disturbing decline of the Delaware blogosphere: a very unfortunate Around the Horn (even if it's not Friday)

I've noticed a change in my own blog-checking habits over the past several weeks, and I don't know if it's just me or the reality of the last month of a divisive political campaign. I automatically used to check out Delawareliberal first and several times a day, because it was where I could find edgy, thought-provoking, and (dare I say it) funny banter going on. These days visit several other spots first, and my visits to DL are both shorter and less engaged. Why? Because the combination of invading neo-con commenters with the stridency of some of the major contributors has led to such pleasant exchanges as a post dedicated to labeling another blogger racist by donviti, whose own sense of provocative humor is generally so far out there that he makes John Belushi doing Samurai bartender on the SNL look positively pro-Asian. Or I can find Delawaredem and jason periodically spewing the idea that anybody who is not a liberal or progressive Democrat is somehow a non-American,...

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