The Democrats used to value blacks greatly.

Then, the Republicans made the Democrats stop buying and selling them at auction.

It was a little dispute called the American Civil War. You may have heard of it.

This is pretty funny ...

Dave Wilson -- a white, conservative Republican -- let his campaign ads imply that he was black in order to win an election to the Houston Community College Board in Houston, TX

As a conservative white Republican running in a district whose voters are overwhelmingly black Democrats, the odds seemed overwhelmingly against ( Read more... )

I was shocked yesterday to discover that the organizers of WisCon have already at least once (last year) and plan to again this year openly-implement a policy of racial segregation.  Quoting from the blog of K. Tempest Bradford, "WisCon 36:  POC Safer Space":

I am once again the WisCon concom liaison and oranizer of the POC Safer Space ....We will ( Read more... )

A great moment for American criminal justice today, as George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, despite the obvious attempt, orchestrated from the White House and US Justice Department, to convict Zimmerman as a political maneuver.  George Zimmerman walks free, now able to recoup the money he was forced ( Read more... )

Looking at this post by inverarity at http://inverarity.livejournal.com/136523.html?view=comments I think the real point of their argument is Looking at the other blog, I think the whole point of their argument is to say ( Read more... )

Took the following from my response on this post

http://bookish.livejournal.com/3144415.html?view=26197727#t26198495

Gone With the Wind shows what the American Civil War looked like from the perspective of a rich Southern woman living near Atlanta ( Read more... )

In "Obama's Racial Crisis," http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson100111.html , Victor Davis Hanson discusses first the argument of Obama and his supporters that any and all opposition to Obama is necessarily racist -- which is not merely a false argument, ( Read more... )

What with one thing or another, I almost let this bit of good news regarding the gang leader, "legitimate businessman" and sociopath Yusuf Bey IV go by without comment.

From the SF Examiner, Associated Press August 26th 2011, "Yusuf Bey sentenced to life in prison" Read more... )

Courtesy of firecat at http://firecat.livejournal.com/716757.html,

this is freaking hilarious. Semi-true, but also hilariousFrom Hepshiba's Pad at ( Read more... )

While reading a book entitled Evil - Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, by Roy F. Baumeister, I was horrified by the story of a particularly despicable villain by the name of Nathan McCall. Apparently he had written a book called Makes Me Wanna Holler, in which among other things he had detailed his commission of terrible crimes. McCall, as a ( Read more... )