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“More than 1000 people officially changed colour last year”

Is how this 1985 article from the South African newspaper, The Star, begins. I know there were/are probably significant social, economic and other effects of changing colo(u)rs in apartheid South Africa, but still – this made me laugh. But if anything can point up the ridiculousness of racial classifications, this is it. I got this [...]

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Tuesday, December 21st

i don’t know how we ever fought the republicans

Y’all ever notice that Obama sometimes, in effect, pokes leftish folks with a hatpin and some spend DAYS howling that he shot them? It’s frustrating sometimes. Conservatives spent years filling the airwaves with so much pro-Republican, pro-conservative claptrap and going on so many attacks against anyone who attacked one of them, and going on counter-attacks [...]

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Friday, August 27th

transcript of shirley sherrod’s full remarks

I can’t view the video well, plus it’s easy for words to get lost, so here is a full transcript of what she said. I have removed the blockquotes because they make it more difficult for me, at least, to read and have instead cased Ms. Sherrod’s remarks in asterisks. It is obvious that someone [...]

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Wednesday, July 21st

no wonder they targeted her

Shirley Sherrod’s husband is Charles Sherrod. Yeah, that one. A SNCC organizer 0f the Albany Movement. Who was recently interviewed as part of the 50th anniversary of the SNCC. Talk about paying their dues. Who, along with Shirley, apparently was involved in a long-running court case involving Black farmers that was recently settled - which involvement REALLY has the [...]

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Tuesday, July 20th

it feels soooo weird to say this, but…

Kudos to Little Green Footballs. Urgh? I know Charles Johnson has broken with the nuttier part of the GOP, but little other than that. Anyway, though… Apparently when others were piling on Shirley Sherrod yesterday, or running away from her, Lizardoids and Johnson consistently stood up for her, without even knowing what the rest of the story [...]

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Tuesday, July 20th

shame on breitbart. AND vilsack. AND the NAACP. AND Obama

How disgusting is this? TPM (emphasis mine) Shirley Sherrod, an appointee to the USDA, was forced to resign yesterday after Big Government posted a video of a speech Sherrod gave in March. In the video, Sherrod, who is black, recounts how, 24 years ago, she didn’t help a white farmer as much as she could. [...]

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Tuesday, July 20th

found in the pit: huh?

This seriously made me laugh: Don’t speak too soon: I’ve been reading this clown for months now and this is probably the only time he doesn’t soak a discussion about Civil War history with melodrama about slavery. Dog forbid one should clog up discussions of Civil War history with “melodrama” about slavery. No link. I [...]

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Friday, July 2nd

arizona – the sundown state

I used the wrong analogy in a previous post.  Influenced, I would say, by the extensive – and difficult to overcome – training most Americans receive from birth,  when I sat down to write about the “show me your papers” law recently passed in Arizona I proceeded to lazily stumble onto the same well-worn track [...]

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Sunday, May 2nd

one good thing about stupak

He’s almost single-handedly smashed to smithereens the justification used to get us to vote for – or, at least, not vehemently oppose – anti-choice Democrats: “Don’t worry, there’s only a few of them and they’re with us on the big stuff.” Good luck anyone trying to pull that one on again.

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Sunday, March 21st

“astonishingly nasty” indeed – mccarthyites

Chris Bodenner, filling in for Sully: Liz Cheney ratchets up the disgusting campaign led by Senator Chuck Grassley to impugn DOJ appointees who represented Gitmo detainees. Ackerman: You know, [the lawyers who] provided the representation that the Rehnquist and Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detainees are entitled? And which even the military commissions [...]

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Tuesday, March 2nd