Serwer:
"...any political movement that places The Bell Curve among its most important intellectual accomplishments can expect to have very few people of color in it."
Remember the great permanent Republican majority talk in 2000? Grimly entertaining memories...
Perhaps the funniest (although certainly not the most disturbing) part of Glenn Back's racist analysis of the 14th Amendment is his claim that to interpret the clause "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside" to mean that people born in the United States become American citizens would be a "revision" of the 14th Amendment. A more faithful interpretation, apparently, would be to see that the plain language of the clause doesn't apply to classes of people that Glenn Beck doesn't like. But don't call that racist or anything! And for God's sake don't keep reading the 14th Amendment further -- many more nutty ideas in there.
This kind of thing might merely be a sideshow if it wasn't also being echoed by, say, major Republican candidates in presidential primaries and state and federal Republican legislators.
In the back were maybe ten or so black kids taking up that section of the car. There was no confrontation, just one or two of them talking loudly enough to make sure they’d be heard.I won't pretend to fathom the complex of mental and emotional pathologies that leads conservative white men to vocalize their fantasies about assaulting black kids. I suppose, though, it's a good thing that none of these frightening young men decided to whistle at a white woman.
Without resorting to the poor diction it was along the lines of, these are the people who think Obama is the anti-Christ. That McCain he wasn’t chit. Obama’s going to be president as long as he wants, so these people better get used to it, etc. It went on but not really to a level that was so loud, or so confrontational that it needed to be addressed.
We just ignored them without much trouble at all.
Yeah, they were technically thugs. But the reality was they were still wannabes really, pretty young, not that big, or many. And if the several adults there for 9/12 actually needed to do something about it, the kids wouldn’t have lasted very long.
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