Friday, August 25, 2006
Has Racism Gone Mainstream...Again?
The evidence is piling up all around us:
--Rush Limbaugh's replacement refers to "gooks in Vietnam".
--Mel Gibson channels the spirit of his father.
--Pat Buchanan goes on the Today Show and warns against the evils posed to America by non-white "invaders".
--Sen. George Allen, a likely Republican presidential candidate in 2008 calls an Indian-American member of Democrat Jim Webb's campaign "macaca" twice. Macaca means "monkey", by the way.
--Andrew Young, a vital member of the civil rights movement and former Democratic mayor of Atlanta, was fired from his job with Wal-Mart (why he worked there, I have no idea) after accusing Jewish, Arab, and Korean store-owners of ripping off black neighborhoods.
--Tramm Hudson, a Republican candidate for Congress in Florida commented that "blacks are not the greatest swimmers or may not even know how to swim." Rush Limbaugh, predictably, makes a similar comment about a week later.
--Ann Coulter states that Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who is black, "would not have a job that didn't involve wearing a paper hat" if it weren't for affirmative action.
To these examples, you can add any number of anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner, anti-Arab, or anti-Muslim remarks being tossed around under the guise of sane political discourse and being aired on supposedly respectable media outlets.
Is this where we're going? Is racism acceptable again?
Sadly, from where I'm sitting, it appears so...
P.S. I just realized that all the examples I cited above have occurred within the last month...
P.P.S. Jack Cafferty properly laced into some of the office-seeking Republicans that have put their racist feet in their mouths recently...
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