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Some police officers have apparently shot dead a 73-year old black man in front of his family, then moved a gun to make it look like he was threatening them. What makes it clearly racist is the following gem.
"People here are afraid of the police," said Terry Willis, vice president of the Homer branch of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People. "They harass black people, they stop people for no reason and rough them up without charging them with anything."
That is how it should be, responded Homer Police Chief Russell Mills, who noted the high rates of gun and drug arrests in the neighborhood.
"If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names," said Mills, who is white. "I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested.
Now that's some grade-A old-fashioned fucking racism. Most racists at least have the presence of mind not to be so up-front, or to throw in a feeble "not racist, but..."
I guess I've got to give this racist shitnozzle some credit for being so honest about it.
This is a political cartoon by Mike Lester. Intentional or not, it's pretty racist.
I don't know if the joke is "asians talk funny" or "molestation is funny", but either way this is pretty goddamn stupid.
Racist political cartoons aren't a new development. This klassic is pretty much the apex of jaw-droppingly racist American political discourse. (You can read the full-size version here, or you can trust me that it's really fucking racist.)
Oh! how American values have deteriorated. Truly were our fathers and our fathers' fathers wiser men than we.
This is from a fellow by the name of Granlund. The cartoon is titled "Illegal Immigration".
We are presented with the Statue of Liberty, overwhelmed by a teeming horde of illegal immigrants, more commonly known as Mexicans. They scurry about her oxidized skin, pulling her down into ruin. This is bitter irony, as the Statue of Liberty has traditionally welcomed immigrants who wished only for a better life.
This is racist, if not intentionally so.
San Diego, and really all Southern California, has a problem. That problem is that Southern California is racist.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that since 2000 hate groups have grown from 602 to 926 nationwide, an increase of 50 percent in eight years. California leads the nation with 84 hate groups with the largest concentration right here in Southern California.
Southern California is a pretty nice place, if you discount the racism (as well as the exurbian wasteland between civic centers). It's pretty hard to discount something as mind-boggingly retarded as racism when the organized opposition decides to...
... [engage] elected officials and other civic leaders in educating the public while using reason and moral persuasian to counter the dehumanizing rhetoric of hate groups and their followers.
If it works then great, but I suspect that reason and moral persuasion aren't going to change the minds of goddamn racists.
