The Threat of America's Racist Far Right

The Creeping Fascism of American Politics

FOCUS: States Unite Against Citizens United

Dimon's Deja Vu Debacle

Cut It Out: An Open Letter to Black Bloc Anarchists

This Is What Tyranny Looks Like

James Ridgeway writes: "What is nonetheless clear is that a strong far right movement has re-emerged, and what unites it is the age-old American doctrine of nativism, born out of fear of some dark outsider sneaking in to steal the white man's homeland and his hegemony."

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is considered the classic example of a home-grown terrorist: former military servicemember, trained in explosives and angry at the United States. (photo: AP)

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-81 # Tom M 2011-03-25 08:31

We have a leftist Union Thug SEIU Learner soliciting for people to illegally crash the system - so you people bring out this jackass that no one agrees with? Call criminals to account for their miss deeds.

+48 # LiberalLibertarian 2011-03-25 09:11

Tom,

The SEIU is soliciting persons to crash the system?

Crash what system?

I look forward to your incisive non partisan analysis and explanation.

+9 # NCMike 2011-03-25 10:06

I believe he is referring to Stephen Lerner, a high ranking SEIU member, who was caught on tape discussing a plan of civil disobedience that included getting 500,000 people to stop paying their mortgages in an attempt to crash the banking system and stock market. He says the goal is a redistribution of wealth from the corporations to the people. Whether Mr. Lerner was serious or has the backing up of any organized groups is left for each individual to decide, as is whether the video is unedited. If you do a simple search of the internet, you will find plenty of links (yes, they are all on right of center sites). It appears Tom was only stating that people on both extremes are conspiring against the USA in various fashions but only those on the right of the spectrum get widespread media coverage.

+16 # LiberalLibertarian 2011-03-25 11:20

NC,

You are correct! Stephen Lerner (as in the Jewish Lerners) proposed the following:
"Lerner's plan calls for something much less common in organized labor— threatening a strategic default on mortgages in order to force banks to negotiate better interest rates on predatory loans. Banks and big corporations do this all the time. They threaten to just walk away from a mortgage and stop paying it all together unless the banks change their rates. Morgan Stanley simply walked away from five office buildings they owned in San Francisco in 2009." source Mike Elk blogged at "In These Times".

Both sides, my tush (Americann Yiddish for ass).

Mr. Lerner is fighting back peacefully against those that robbed the persons he represents.

Why is he extreme? Because he is a labor leader? Be cause he is a Progressive? Be cause he wants the same rules to apply to people with no money as those that have a lot? Or, call me paranoid; maybe because he is Jewish?

Maybe not by you, but not for 1 minute did I ever think that Tom M was providing an attempt at a balanced point of view.

Rant Over

Both sides, my tush!

-12 # NCMike 2011-03-25 12:23

What does Judaism have to do with anything that was stated above? Could it be that you have racist tendencies that you project upon others? Several of my closest friends are Jewish, including the best man at my wedding and the father of my Godson. I would argue that Progressivism is at the far end of the political spectrum, and is therefore extreme. I am not disparaging it in any way, merely stating that it is a minority viewpoint in America (much like libertarians are outside the mainstream). Beyond all of the false accusations, your assertion that his proposal is peaceful is untrue. Mass defaults on that scale would not cause the lenders to renegotiate rates, it would weaken, if not collapse, them. This would lead to a drastic correction in the stock market which would in turn dampen the animal spirits of American consumers. The result would be yet another government bailout (which we can all agree would be unsavory) or a worsened economy. There are much better ways to go about lasting change. If he is honestly advocating such action, then he is promoting chaos that will harm all people, including those he uses as pawns in his game.

+3 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:18

I do not know that what I am reading here would not be a bad attempt if one could actually get people to work together.
Right now we are all pushing people to look into their Pensions, Banks holding them or Lending institute to see how these Banks tend to invest our money and to whom they send in Political Donations.
I do not think a Smart President or Party would be too happy to see us take our money to say, Canada. Bailing out Wall Street, this would have to be left to Big Business to do and that would defeat its purpose.

I do not care who gives us these ideas, but Americans should consider alternatives Now to show that we are not going to sit and take any more crap....If it is left to Unions and some of Smarter People, I do not think I want to carry the others anymore. I have been carrying the lazy not the Welfare, they are Government making. The ones bitching about being unemployed driving their foreign vehicles, those who shop at Wallie World. The ones who don't like anybody, who do not come to meetings, do not support fellow Americans. Those are the Moochers far worse than any immigrant or Welfare person. They come in all races, creeds.
I do believe that if we all did work together we could get a lot of prices down. We did in the 70's, where were any of you?

+14 # in deo veritas 2011-03-25 10:25

The system needs to crash before we all go down with it. The system is the complex of the rich (Wall Street), their shills in the federal government (especially the Supremely Corrupt Court) and the military/"defense contractors" who are merchants of death. So-called partisanship is irrelevant:gree d is not-they all have their benefactors under the table. In short,as one pundit once said "government is the ultimate form of organized crime".

+9 # LiberalLibertarian 2011-03-25 11:06

Anarchism will always resolve with a despot in charge.

Applying negative solutions to negative problems adds to the negativity. Not Good.

"All we are saying is 'Give peace a chance'"

+32 # DaveW 2011-03-25 11:23

Tom M, "We have a leftist Union Thug..."
Is he a thug because he's leftist? Is he a thug because he's union? Do you acknowledge "rightist" corporate thugs? Or rightist racist thugs? Or rightest mysoginist thugs? Or rightest Christian thugs? "Thugs" are NOT inclusive to any one particular labeling. Do you acknowledge that? "Call criminals to account for their deeds." By all means!
O.K. with you if we start on Wall St.? The Pentagon? The whole MIC? A speaker of the House who spent 70,000 dollars of taxpayer money playing golf last year?

+55 # msfrost 2011-03-25 09:29

Whiteman's Homeland!? It was our homeland, before the whiteman ever came here, by about 10,000 years.

+16 # in deo veritas 2011-03-25 10:29

Those to whom the land belonged were the victims of the "American Holocaust" and that's how it should be taught in the schools. Too bad those who received the "pilgrims" who were in some cases wanted felons as far as the English government were concerned, didn't see what was coming and wipe them out.

+27 # John Hoaglund 2011-03-25 11:23

I was at Michigan State University in 1992. MSU has a rock that is painted with all kinds of graffiti, tolerated by the administration as long as it isn't profane. I remember walking past the rock on Columbus Day morning: 1492 to 1992. 500 years of foreign occupation.

I loved it, and not just for the humor of it!

+2 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:23

Should have had better weapons and perhaps America would still be Beautiful, Buffalo still roaming and other Creatures not being poisoned or killed.
Whiteman is a Disease, I am sorry he ever found America. We are still finding proof that Indians may have been here longer.
Going North and West after creation instead of staying together, hardened their hearts.

+16 # Ajax Eastman 2011-03-25 10:05

Go back even further to the take over of the Phillipines in the late 1800's - early 1900's as depicted in James Bradley's "The Imperial Cruise" where the the US was justifying our slaughter of the Phillipinos as the need to spread the U.S. Aryan civilization.

+19 # DaveW 2011-03-25 11:12

Ajax, "The Imperial Cruise" is an excellent book. Read it and you'll never look at Theodore Roosevelt the same way again. As a 54yr. old "white man" I am forced to confront the reality that peoples of my ancestral background and others who look as I do are the principle cause in the decline of civilization today. 500 years of oppression, extortion, slaughter, skullduggery, and other forms of hostility can lead to no other conclusions. In Medieval times "black" was falsely associated with all types of negative connotations. For the last five centuries "white", at least in terms of race and the perniciousness of their actions can rightly assume the title of the malefactors of mankind.

+12 # NCMike 2011-03-25 12:13

If you think that tyrannical men are all of one ethnicity, then you have huge gaps in your historical education. Look at Asia, Africa, South and Latin America - all at some point in the last hundred years have been home to some form of mass murdering government. The truth is that man is imperfect and without proper limitations placed upon the power any one person or association of people can acquire, corruption and oppression will result. I am continually flabbergasted by white guilt. All races have treated some ethnic minority horrifically at some point in history. The key is to acknowledge and understand the history of all men so as to avoid living in a vicious cycle of subjugation.

+9 # Anarchist 23 2011-03-25 15:34

One wonders where women are in this equation. It seems in this modern world and its economies, it is women and children last!

-3 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:28

Or perhaps like the Japanese, the Meek shall inherit the Earth.
Women have as many egotistical problems as men. Just not a greater percentage.

+10 # DaveW 2011-03-25 17:11

NCMike,"If you think tyrannical men are all of one ethnicity, then you have huge gaps in your historical education." If you read my post again you'll a conspicuous abscence of such a statement. I'm merely implying that the white race (men in particular) have held the reins of power over the large majority of the world and that they have done a disservice to mankind in their stewardship. It's the white race that holds the vast majority of nuclear weapons and they have used that military advantage to pursue policies that are detrimental to other ethnic groups. I am fully cognizant of the debauched nature of man in general and the atrocities committed by those of other ethnicities than white. But the last 500 years has been the epic of the white race. Remember the old saying "the sun never sets on the British empire?" The U.S. has military bases in over 130 countries and the Russians subjucated allegedly "inferior" slavic peoples for centuries. Africa was left in a state of anarchy after Western colonialism decimated their individual cultures as we left military strongmen in place to continue to do our bidding. China was forced into the opium trade by their British handlers and when they rebelled (the Boxer rebellion) Western powers intervened to crush it. Japan was a closed society minding its own affairs until the U.S. Navy bombarded an island and "convinced" them to "open up."

+1 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:25

They have learned from what we did to them.
When they came bearing gifts, in our fear and loathing, our Religions gave us Sanctions to Kill the Heathens. We have not stopped since, we still call them Heathens right here in USA and Missionaries. Nice way to approach other lands we live off of to get people to join Religions?

+5 # historywriter 2011-03-26 16:27

It really didn't work quite like that. Religion gave the whites' actions a sort of "moral" approval (since these people were not quite human beings), but the real driver behind grabbing land and driving the native peoples out or putting them into lands where they would is--guess what?--greed. And those first settlers whom we so revere; they didn't necessarily come for freedom of religion. Some of them immediately set about giving us the "one true church" and everyone else could (and would) go to hell.
They came to find ways to make money in this country. Indians were in the way. And to make even more money, they had slaves who worked for nothing.
That's what this country is based on.

0 # csmilwaukee 2011-03-26 21:14

Quoting

If you think that tyrannical men are all of one ethnicity, then you have huge gaps in your historical education. Look at Asia, Africa, South and Latin America - all at some point in the last hundred years have been home to some form of mass murdering government. The truth is that man is imperfect and without proper limitations placed upon the power any one person or association of people can acquire, corruption and oppression will result. I am continually flabbergasted by white guilt. All races have treated some ethnic minority horrifically at some point in history. The key is to acknowledge and understand the history of all men so as to avoid living in a vicious cycle of subjugation.

Don't forget about Europe/Britain and the Roman conquests....

+6 # maddave 2011-03-25 23:32

Re: Ajax Eastman's comments on James Bradley's "The Imperial Cruise" and our torturing & slaughtering indigenous (i.e., non-human) Philippine Moros in order to spread our Aryan culture Westward.

Those of us who are interested in America's Institutional racism and hegemony will find "The Imperial Cruise" very enlightening. A thumbnail bio of Teddy Roosevelt & a snapshot of his times, the book reveals a curious juxtaposition in TR's nature in which he chose to destroy entire cultures (eg., Hawaii, Philippines, et al) for - in the minds of America's responsible, elite & affluent intelligentia - the noble and altruistic purpose of saving, from themselves, the very people that he was destroying! Our official history tells us American's that the pandemic & largely unquestioned (international) racism recounted by Bradley reached its pinnacle in America's Jim Crow laws, Germany's Nazism and South Africa's Apartheid. . . and that it was discredited and forever destroyed half-a-century ago. However, although loudly and vehemently denied by Rush Limbaugh and those of his ilk - and with Obama's election and - the roots and remnants of those "good ol' days" are taking roots and sprouting. Racism in the USA is enjoying a revival.

Add to this the racial & class divisiveness of our financial chaos and lost jobs . . . and what do YOU predict?

+1 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:36

He also had the need to Kill animals, then he changed. I believe the Roosevelt upbringing like many in the time, not unlike now, had taught them to be irreverent to others due to this Heathenism they were taught. He turned around in his life to protect nature, Animals, I think the People also. He could not change what he had done, but he turned around the need to continue doing it.

If you ever went to Rich People's mansions, Roosevelt's have a couple, they are stacked with books of that era and before, which taught in school that unless you were white, accepted You had to change or you could be sacrificed if you didnot accept Jesus. heck, we have these hypocrites today. You would also see vast amounts of stuffed Animals, guns, other artifacts like shrunken heads that they got on their World Adventures. The Men of the 50's were doing the same wheeling and Dealing, accepting they same gifts. jack Paar with Sheiks in 12950's had this trading on his Show. To this date, trades are still going on, now it is for pricier venues than a shrunken head, even though I believe we would accept some of those.

Something in Teddy's life changed him, we should be glad. He has preserved much of America for us to see (Right now they seem to be up for grabs by Oil and Gas)

+10 # in deo veritas 2011-03-25 10:20

As long as racists and wannabe fascists are tolerated in this country nobody is safe and this country is a mockery in the eyes of the world. Janet reno did the right thing taking out the Waco wackos.

+3 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:40

Was She? Because there are no more? Look at the GOP/Tea party. Look at those needing to kill wolves and Buffalo into extinction? Look at Churches not teaching or helping anyone but themselves.

If you remove a dictator is no guarantee another will not show up. Manson, Wako, Kent State..all horrors but there are more today and worse, Guantanamo, Intentional Killing in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and videos and pictures of it...You do not think the Wackos are really gone do you?

+25 # ritaague 2011-03-25 10:20

Here' some reality: Peace and justice activists have been brutalized, tortured, intimidated by cops in front of a demonstration (2003), parade (2007), Dem. state convention (2008), etc.. Google: Colorado Springs Independent, Jan. 21, 2010, "No Peace or Justice".

And the same 'spook' directed cops do a 'hands off' on Tea Partiers, who harass, threaten and intimidate folks, even those who are disabled and severely ill. I've had to force cops to come to the rescue of one such terminally ill, older woman who was being screamed at with every four letter word imaginable by three Tea Partiers as she held her HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE SIGN. Then, there was the 'good Catholic' Tea Partier who treahtened to shoot me, because health care reform was "all about abortion." No cop action available. So.....

The over 80,000 'spooks' (govt. operatives) in the U.S. today (increased since Pres. Obama took office) could zero in on explosive militia, crazed and racist Tea Partiers, and mentally ill gun nuts.

But, instead, they now deem activists who support peace, workers' rights, the environment, animal rights, etc. to be the 'terrorists', the dangerous ones.

It's called a coup d'etat, and karlroving spin, manipulation, distraction of the far right's racists is just part of their 'control the sheeple' campaign.

+22 # Diane Johnson 2011-03-25 10:26

Mousellini called facism "corporatism" (government by the corporations for profit) with the powers of law to protect them. As it seems the ruling corporations now have our government sewed up tight, the majority being financed by lobbyists,. We must remember that the first to go under hitler were the disabled and trade unionists ; then commies and anarchists; then gysies and jews... looks like the usa is following Hitlers path and using an invented religious theolgy for backing. none of the banksters or insurance giants have gone to jail. Why not recall all those in charge of prosecuting them... dj

+1 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:44

I do not believe they should come after disabled, in fact I am hoping that Americans get off their duffs and stand up for their Rights.
Religious Theology are the creators of Wackos....lots of them. Good Religions seem to bring a Peace to their People, white Mans Religion is about Money and Hatred I am still trying to figure out Islam and Juddaism, seems they are bending a little to the Right. Too much Killing.

+7 # Alturn 2011-03-25 10:36

The far right get 24/7 coverage of all of its activities. That which is diametrically opposed, the return of the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Masters along with 14 other Masters within his group, get no media attention at all. Thus Americans fill their minds with the thoughts of the agents of fear and destruction instead of considering the blueprint for a Golden Age based on sharing and love. This slant makes it challenging for progressives to move the yard markers in their direction.

"“Look at the world situation today. Everyone has fallen victim to ideologies in the name of religion, politics, civilization. Is it worth living this sort of life? The world has been polluted with ideologies, so the clear message is: If the human race does not follow the path of justice, peace, happiness, grace, then nature will explode. If human beings (nations and countries) do not respect each other the energies which are goading nations and countries to fight, and which are so vibrant in nature, will find expression in major disasters which are just around the corner now.
You will witness major earthquakes, floodings, volcanic eruptions, aeroplane explosions.”
Maitreya says: “Everything you see happening in the world is entirely man-made.”
- World Teacher Maitreya through an associate as reported by Share International

+3 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:48

Mankind does not do any research into Civilization. That is a major problem. It is not taught as it should be. We as a people do not learn from mistakes, we gotta make our own. Like Ground Hog Day. People believe that was a funny movie, it was but it was also a mirror into our lives, we slept thru the lesson.

Natural Disasters are not man made but Consequences to what we do. Spiritually I believe they are warnings. "There are neither Rewards nor Punishments in Life. There are only Consequences" Ingersoll I believe.

+1 # genierae 2011-03-27 04:57

KittatinyHawk: Natural disasters are the result of man's ignorance of himself, which causes him to destroy all that he loves, and so they actually are man-made. Karma is universal law, and inescapable. What we do comes back to us, what goes around, comes around. Our individual karma pools together with our fellow Americans' karma, to form a national karma. For generations, America has accumulated much more negative karma than positive, and the backlash is now beginning to be felt, and we must suffer the consequences. Yet there are millions of Americans who are awake, and are working very hard to turn this bad situation around, but we are in the minority, held hostage to those who are sleepwalking through life. I think we are beginning to reach critical mass however, and so we must endeavor to persevere. Let us fight the good fight, we will overcome!

+18 # liberalman 2011-03-25 10:48

Anti-Muslim & anti-immigrant hysteria is promoted by the right as a means of control. Give the hungry some red meat to chew on & they forget who actually made them hungry in the first place. The undertones of racism are rife throughout the GOP & their loud, confused base, the Teabaggers. Kenyan, Muslim, all replacement terms for the N word that is which is no doubt whispered in the homes & cloisters of these dupes of the right.

-26 # NCMike 2011-03-25 11:14

To state that the right is promoting such things is intellectually dishonest. Asking the government to identify and deal with islamo-extremism is a matter of sound national defense. There is a difference in targeting subversive elements and demeaning an entire religion. The same can be applied to immigration. The argument is for those wishing to enter the country to follow the well-established laws to do so. The right welcomes all that want to enter this country, become productive, and assimilate with the culture. It is unwise to think that those breaking our laws the first chance they get will then choose to subsequently follow all of our laws. While racism may be present in a minority of individuals, it is not "rife throughout" the right. In case you did not know, a black man won a Tea Party straw poll for President and the Tea Party backed several black candidates in 2010. Whether the Tea Party will have any lasting impact on American politics is yet to be determined, as is whether it will be a positive or negative force in the long-term. The real issues discussed by those on the right deal with limited government, allowing maximum liberty from intrusions by an enormous federal bureaucracy, and promoting responsible federal spending to prevent undue burdens on future generations of Americans.

+11 # Oligarch 23 2011-03-25 15:38

I love that bit about preventing undue burdens on the future generations. Since we Oligarchs have gotten away with most of the money, the future generations will have to fill in the hole we made with that great tax cut legislation begun with Reagan, continued with Bush and confirmed under Obama. Think of us, paying nothing on this April day when the IRS claims its pound of flesh from you. And of course it is now too expensive to guarantee health care for your children.

+1 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 11:53

Making Palins trip repugnant. She is already known for her actions of killing, promoting killing. Her Husband, who she represents as Eskimo/Indian is not a good Role Model for them. they have respected Land, and Animals. They have depended on them, then we come with our whiskey and promises and take their Land. what did they get out of all this, Loss of Land, now Climate Change. Same with Siberia, China once respected land and environment, not very good with people skills, and now since Bush, they have in 12 years become worse in Pollution than any other Country.
Palin our Foreign Ambassador. I believe they just placated her and the GOP after Bush they understand our woes.

+13 # Nancy Wang 2011-03-25 11:00

The right wing is rampant with delusions and paranoia and this has to go back to their fathers who have been authoritarian and punitive if not abusive. On the other hand, they represent the way our government does business around the world and has been for the entire history of this nation. So what can we expect? If not for the tremendous good that the majority of people in this country do, we would all be blown to bits. We must match 100 fold the bad they do with the good we are capable of doing.

+10 # genierae 2011-03-25 13:25

Nancy Wang, I know these people and you are exactly right. Each succeeding generation has been raised by authoritarian fathers who practiced "tough love", which means do what I say or get beaten into submission. But I love ya! Its insane, conditioned behavior, but it works. And forget about women, they have to get to the back of the bus along with all of those who happen to be the wrong color. American exceptionalism is for white men only.

+2 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 12:11

Their mental defect go back centuries to Europe. Blind keep following the blind.

I hope we can learn to pick up this weight now and look ahead. It is time for cleaning of Parties. I believe they both have become too lazy, too bought. People have to dig in like in Japan and believe they can do anything, move any obstacle.
people with Diseases, Physical Problems learn their enemy and fight back. Now the Americans must know their Enemies and give them Walking papers. Let them be the Unemployed. We have no money for their Unemployment or Pensions/Benefits no less Social Security. Let them work at MacDonald's, eat Bad Food, fight for Medical. Time the Circle moves forward.

+17 # fredboy 2011-03-25 13:33

What do you mean, RE-emerged? They and their hatred have been here since Jamestown.

And any claim to a white homeland is hilarious. Ask any of us who have Cherokee or other Indian ancestry.

The right wing, including the GOP and tea white trash, are the greatest threat of all to our national and homeland security.

+6 # futhark 2011-03-25 22:33

Racism is so deeply ingrained into American culture that it is not surprising that it raises its ugly head from time to time. However, in my short lifetime of 60+ years I have seen the abolition of statutory racism and a definite improvement in the attitudes of people, particularly the young.

Only 20 years ago racist jokes were still being told by otherwise respectable people, but now they are considered to be social faux pas. Now teens jump on any comment that may have some racist content and chastise the person making it.

+5 # genierae 2011-03-26 06:13

I agree futhark, most young people are fed up with bigotry and that is a very good sign. But there are many young skinheads, white supremacists who have been conditioned all of their lives to hate those who are different, and they are determined to maintain white power at any cost. I just got a chain email from an acquaintance that blames Muslims for the ban on prayer in schools. Of course they mean Christian prayer, they don't recognize any other kind. I responded with an American History lesson, reminding her about the separation of church and state in the constitution, and also that Christians are not a favored religion in this country and have no right to force their practices on others. Did it make a dent? Probably not, but we have to speak up to these ignorant people, ignoring them only increases their power.

+3 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 12:39

I remind people that this Country was founded on Freedom of Religion, that Puritans tried to disgrace that Right and were put down.I believe they went South and West.
There is social unrest, as long as a foreigner comes here people will not be happy, I remind them that neither were nor are the Indians.
Another Point I make is there is not such thing as purity of a Nation. With the fact we are from Adam and Eve, no color was ever given on our ancestors. but with civilization spreading to all the corners of the world, scientific and historic fact can prove our skin pigmentation. Crusades, Wars,before and after Christ, Rape, Pillaging, Plundering, there is no purity of race. To this date thru our own Americas, we have raped, had consensual sex, we have left children wherever we served. Children left behind, mothers ostracized, family destroyed, child with No Father. We were meant to be equal. When we started judging by color of our skins, our religions, our nationality, we left our History in the trash. We conveniently became white folk everyone else was Heathen.
Prayers do not belong in school. Prayers belong in our hearts, our places of worship. We should as a Country of Many come up with a word acceptable to all. Creator, Being. Perhaps from there, we can work outward.

+3 # KittatinyHawk 2011-03-26 12:22

Racism raises its ugly head everyday. It is not dead. I am glad where you live your kids are above it, but not so anywhere else. Our children in service are killing civilians and videoing it.
We are passing Laws against people of different ethnic backgrounds, contemplating more in other states. People in Arizona have been brutalizing people for decades. Yet they allow the GOP to bring them in to clean house,yard, kids.
Kids out West were coming east to blow up abortion clinics? no free clinics with real people in them. Kids out West, Minster's children were coming East to bully, beat up and kill gays..that is racist activity as it is not treating anyone fairly. Poor people are still being lumped into their neighborhoods. Glad you have an Eden but there are Gangs in America, Their is Poverty in America, Their is Racism alive and well in America. Some of it taught in Schools, Churches and Home. Lot of it in Schools.

People around here, small area hated blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Welfare Garbage. There were no blacks, no Mexicans, no Puerto Ricans. Most of the people knew none. One third of these people were on Welfare themselves or Disability, working but collecting.

+1 # genierae 2011-03-27 05:23

You make a good point, KittatinyHawk, small-minded people hate "those they don't know". Tribalism, pure and simple. I have had the great blessing of working with Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, and Russians. It was one of the most positive experiences in my life. We must stop our ignorant hating, and get to know these people and their cultures. America has the potential to be a wonderful place, filled with the best of many cultures, becoming the best of all possible worlds. Let us join hands and make it so!

+1 # democratnomore 2011-03-30 11:03

Lerner is an economic terrorist for telling people not to pay their mortgage. These people were not held at gun point to buy a house, they made the decision and they agreed to the terms of the loan, it's time to stop acting like a bunch of self serving whining children and start acting like adults.

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