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False implications
On Sept. 16, Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote an indictment of those who oppose the direction in which the president takes the country. Bottom line: Opposition to the president's policies expresses a person's — and a country's — racist heart.
Wishing to base this charge on a firmer foundation than mere subjectivity, Pitts marshals his facts. The Southern Poverty Law Center connects 14 years of scattered incidents of violence into a mural to illustrate the vile intentions of all who voice opposition to progressive initiatives. Among a myriad of appropriate protest signs, Pitts brings forward a small collection of unhinged posters to represent them all. A penny blots out the sun!
The fact that the structural underpinnings of this republic rest on the vision of white males rises to condemn all who would defend their genius as racists, clutching the shabby remnants of white supremacy.
I do not "love" to accuse Pitts of playing the race card when he confronts my opposition to progressive initiatives with charges of racism. I must! Either that or let him unfairly strip my voice of any authenticity and my character of any integrity. Pitts played the race card; I refuse to cower before its false implications.
Hundreds of thousands of frustrated citizens of this great republic met in Washington to protest policies and corruption, not the color of a man's skin. Not a person was arrested. I will not passively allow Pitts to cheaply disenfranchise us all with the race card.
Lenny Hoy, Greenwood
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Wow, teabaggers.....liberals
Wow, teabaggers.....liberals on the offensive by TRYING to being offensive. But that's ok, it's quite funny and less offensive than being knwn as a heart fluttering Obama-maniac. Lil, they are casting a spin off of "Life Goes On", you should reprise your roll as Corky. Gil was right, you dumber than a brain dead circus chimp.
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Ronnie on inauguration day.
verified According to Glenn Beck (and
According to Glenn Beck (and some university he can't seem to remember) there were about eleventy gazillion teabaggers there. Hooray! But Beck himself couldn't be bothered with showing up.
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verified Lil, do you even know what a
Lil, do you even know what a teabagger is? Do you know what teabagging is? Or are you just spouting off blindly as usual? Just for fun tell me what you think it means.
verified Not in a "pg" rated forum.
Not in a "pg" rated forum. Just for fun, look it up yourself.
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verified tron: I assume you know the
tron:
I assume you know the meaning of the term, teabaggers. Teabaggers are individuals who engage in the act of teabagging, a practice not endemic to heterosexuals. Therefore, your reference to people who attend political tea parties as teabaggers is not only inaccurate, but quite offensive. Would it therefore, be appropriate for the pirate and others, so inclined, to refer to homos as queers?
Fear not the enemy at the gate, for it is the enemy within that will devour you.
Tron, quit putting words in
Tron, quit putting words in Lenny's mouth.
verified Mr. Hoy, the official
Mr. Hoy, the official numbers of the teabaggers in Washington DC was around eighty thousand, NOT hundreds of thousands. But NO ONE has ever attempted to shut you up, we just tune you out since your prejudices makes what you say less relevant.
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Ronald, If you have not
Ronald,
If you have not noticed, everything I’ve listed is a growth in the size of government, a growth in government spending or a program in crisis.
A tax cut does not belong in that list. While a tax cut may grow the size of the national debt, a tax cut does not necessarily grow the size of government nor does it increase spending.
Moreover, you selectively forgot to add your favorites, Bill Clinton and Obama, to your list of tax cutting presidents. Any reason why? Maybe your Cuban pharmacist is giving you placeboes!
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Not surprising
It is not surprising that the Czarist and racist factions of the old "Conservatively" Russian front are continually becoming seen all over again. The entire facets of hatred and fear seem to be predated in concepts from Stalin and Hitler himself. Using the vileness of the "outsider" as the most dangerous among us. Mr. Nachman you remind me of a classmate of mine who had felt that as she was of Czech descent that my mothers lineage of Irish-Jewry made it so that I would have to kneel before here.
As a Baptist this is rather disappointing to see that for all of the physics based knowledge one can posses creating an air of fear is the only true self-gratification one can get. In fact this is a bondage between those in the systems of your own family as well. The racism and the scaffolded humanist rejections with an air of continual fear is little more then self-centered egotistical facets. It seems to thrive on fear and donations to establish a "cult" mandated sense of the opine in writing and creates a narrow minded view of those who think differently.
Mr. Nachman while you enjoy the daily purges of illegal "aliens" does any of this truthfully set you so far apart from Stalin or Hitler? The very nature of the article which you write is more of instilling fear toward others; then little more then that? Is this a case where in reverse desperation anyone not deemed American would have to kneel down before you? The questions becomes of the VDare project just how much of a diaspora it would create and exiles as well if they had ever been given enough control to expel other Americans.
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