How Do You Find The Racists In America When No One Is Willing To Openly Say The Word "Nigger" Anymore?

Scott Walker Is A Totally Passive-Aggressive Racist II

A face that screams Passive-Aggressive

How long have I been calling this goofball a racist? SMDH,...

Scott Walker Is A Totally Passive-Aggressive Racist

Goofy is as goofy does

This guy has blown every test on race life has ever presented him, and his calling #Black Lives Matter "ridiculous" in New Hampshire is just the latest indication he's a simple-minded, passive-aggressive, racist to his heart. To sweeten the deal, he even added he wanted to talk about "things that matter" - as though black lives don't - and a reminder of all those racist and sexist jokes his staff got busted for, way back when. I've always said he doesn't care. Anyway, the dork's a loser, and it's nice to see him actually losing for a change. Fuck him:

He simply isn't worth the attention he's gotten already,...

Bill Whittle Tries The Okie Doke Again (Claiming To Tell Real History While Not Explaining Racists On His Side)

If Bill Whittle will lie - as he says he's telling the truth - then what does that say about the party he's fronting for? In order for this hackneyed tale he's spinning to make sense, he's got to at least explain Lee Atwater, and why Cliven Bundy and Dylan Roof and whatnot are drawn to the Republicans - and why the party says so many things most blacks find repulsive. He's got to explain today's latest Jim Crow scheme to keep the Confederate flag, why even black Republicans (like David Clarke, Wisconsin's famous Sheriff, or now, Bill Cosby after the "pound cake" speech conservatives loved so much) sound like evil lunatics to the rest of us, and why they only constitute about 5% of the black population, when blacks already know them as family and not just political opponents. 

No, this kind of sorry-assed con job requires a lot more planning - and much better execution - than Ol' Bill is showing here, and that's a pity:

As I've often said - even I could make a case for the Right - but unfortunately, just like the Confederacy itself, the racists just haven't ever seemed too interested in saving themselves, politically or otherwise,...

There's Nothing Right About The Right (But Righting It)

Out of sight, out of his fucking mind

"I think for most people who are concerned about [pregnancy by rape], it’s in the initial months where they’re most concerned about it.”

- Wisconsin Governor, and potential presidential candidate, Scott Walker

Blacks Can't Force White Know-Nothings To Wise Up

White Americans attack the knowledgable,...

"People try to convince you that the things you see, as a result of racism, are actually not there: There's a kind of 'head trip' that's put on black people,...to avoid a very uncomfortable reality,...the most obvious one,..."

And support the dangerously ignorant,...

“The challenges in terms of people being incarcerated for relatively low offenses is not a significant issue in the state of Wisconsin.”

Because white's "knowledge" has been based on whites keeping whites ignorant,...

“Slavery in New Hampshire? Onlookers like Jack Panopoulos are surprised. 'Generally, you tend to think — or I did — that it was more of a Southern problem,...”

Wisconsin's Black "People's Sheriff" For Whites Gets It

This may-or-may-not be Ann Althouse

"If the sheriff truly wants to help us, it’s time for him to prove that he’s more than just another partisan agitator with a badge and a cowboy hat. The self-proclaimed 'people’s sheriff' needs to drop the sideshow act and get serious. Until then, I can only wonder if Sheriff Clarke is still a lawman or just a guy who plays one on TV."

The Right: Keep 'Em Talking And We're Done With 'Em

They seem to have all attended the same Fascist Waving School, too

So I've been gone - what Wisconsin-type "wisdom" do we have from Pee-Wee McBrainstorm this week?

“I mean, I think for most people who are concerned about [pregnancy from rape], it’s in the initial months where they’re most concerned about it,...”

You know, while I was away, I've been studying Wisconsin's slavery history and, I'll be damned if this comment doesn't fit within the rest of that state's sick and callous heritage like a glove: 

It's probably a great place to raise not-just-stupid-but-racist kids, too - as I've seen,...

Walker Ain't Reagan (And There's No MLK Comparison)

He mostly looks like a nobody to me

A Reagan biographer dissing a conservative is worse than when some Lefty band merely asks a Republican candidate to stop using their song:

“Walker is borrowing from Reagan’s mystique more than any other Republican eyeing the presidency, but Ronald Reagan he ain’t.”

If he wants to be more accurate, all Walker has to do is claim Barry Goldwater: he famously made America's racists feel good, as well,...

Don't Stand So Close 2 Me: Wisconsin & It's Racist Past

After all of Wisconsin's open flirtation with it's racism, the strain had to be excrutiating,...

"I have a dream, too, that one day every darn one of you is going to pay. ... I wonder what kind of people you are. You never get upset about anything."

- Clara Meek, at a Bascom Hill memorial service, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

America has a serious racial problem, that it can't bring itself to admit, and watching Madison, Wisconsin try to futilely distance itself from it - with it's own ugly history of racism standing in the way - should prove,...entertaining:

For demonstrators uniting under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter, the problem is not specific to a city or particular police officer, but systemic on a national level,… 

Citing a 2013 report by an initiative known as the Race to Equity, The Guardian reported that in 2011, "80 percent of youths in juvenile detention facilities in Dane County, where Madison is located, were African American. They represented only 9 percent of the county’s population."

Like King said of Barry Goldwater, Wisconsin's governor makes racists feel comfortable

Considering - with the election of Scott Walker - they've already jumped into bed with racism's worst elements, TMR is betting the residents of Madison can't break it off before everyone discovers what's going on,...

Race Returns To Walker's Wisconsin As If On Schedule

This is the perfect face,...of a racial problem

"We DO have a Ferguson in Madison."

Anyone familiar with TMR knows, I've been saying there's trouble brewing in Madison for some time:

Scott Walker, and his racist staff e-mails, were the most obvious evidence. 

Then there's the racially tone-deaf black sheriff - beloved by whites for never saying anything "black" - who's profoundly embarrassing, to everyone else, for the same reason. 

And also, there's been the numerous reports on Wisconsin's black poverty rate and segregation, the same harassment and illegal arrests of blacks we see nationwide, and much, much more. None of it by accident, all of it by default.

Taken together, for the whites of Madison to miss what's been happening there, racially - when it can easily be seen and predicted, even from a mediated distance, by TMR - is to be thoroughly detached from reality.

From what I know of the history, the place, and it's inhabitants, I can hardly be surprised that's been the case exactly,...

Romney's Out: That Leaves Jeb And Walker To Destroy

Mitt, trying to perform the "pull my finger" joke someone got him with

Of course, Romney's retreat means Wisconsin's Scott Walker is our next big fish to pull out of the water:

“Yeah. Wisconsin is cool. Wisconsin is happening. Get with it."

Leave it to Meade's "hip" lingo to prove why this will be easier than it looks,...

Getter Done: Scott Walker's On A Roll (With Cheese)

FACEBOOK DECLARES WAR ON MISINFORMATION

Well, glory be: the funk's on me. It’s almost like people assume I, The Crack Emcee, will forget there was a time (not too long ago) when warning our  NewAge/alternative medicine/anti-vaccine crowd they unleash the measles - specifically - was considered kinda radical. Kinda "out there." Kinda crazy: an insult to others intelligence. They got me to the point where I would take any opportunity not to think about it (or them) which is partially why I eventually, finally, said, BAM! Baby, watch yo step – America's 'bout to shift gears:

“It’s time for white northerners to wake up to the sometimes uncomfortable history of what are now liberal enclaves like Minneapolis, Minnesota and Portland, Oregon and Madison, Wisconsin,….”

The ugliness I blogged about here, and here, and here last year - saying  Oregon Was Founded As A Racist Utopia (and still is one) has been a fact discovered by Gizmodo’s Matt Novak, which is now making the white supremacist rounds as the words of black people (who these things actually happen to) just don’t for some reason.

Sigh. Oh well, that's how America “works.” 

As long as the message is getting out there. Here’s more from the guy at Gizmodo:

“America’s history of racism is most commonly taught as a southern issue. That’s certainly how I learned about it while going to Minnesota public schools in the 1980s and 90s. White people outside of the South seem to learn about the Civil War and civil rights movements from an incredibly safe (and often judgmental) distance. 

Racism was generally framed as something that happened in the past and almost always ‘down there.’ We learned about the struggles for racial equality in cities like Birmingham and Selma and Montgomery. But what about the racism of Portland, Oregon, a city that is still overwhelmingly white? The struggles there were just as intense – though they are rarely identified in the history books.”

So here I be, one of the people this is eternally falling on, having to decipher and explain what’s been deliberately hidden, without pissing off the arrogant folks it was hidden from, so of course they could grow up to be so bloody arrogant. Intelligent? No. Arrogant? Yes. Mother. Fucker.

Not crazy-eyed U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, or Madison, Wisconsin's Ann Althouse (Hi, Ann!) or even Ann's favorite GOP golden retriever governor with the racist hiring practices, Scott Walker, but me. Me, the black guy. Because I HAVE to talk about it. Because I HAVE to live with it. Because the whites will never let it go.

[Scott] Walker concedes nothing to the conventional wisdom about what the GOP must do to compete in a more culturally tolerant, ethnically diverse and economically insecure America. And the GOP faithful love it.

It starts with ethnicity and race,...

Stay on target. And of course it does, because what else can a white guy with racist hiring practices do but take white's, and the nation's, biggest "original sin" and try to make it work for them - again? Their institutional racism that's lasted for over 100 years can last a little longer. If, while Ann Althouse is thinking "It's funny to see how outsiders are brought up to speed on the 'polarising' that's been going on here in The North," she also finds it as funny to ignore what the North doesn't want we outsiders to know: it's Wisconsin's polarizing historical foundation in racism that still probably makes it a great place to live - for someone white like her. 

Or (of course) their whites-must-always-make-mention-he's-black sheriff, who deliberately sounds like few other blacks in America, or Wisconsin. Blacks who few get to hear from, deliberately, considering the conservative media saturation in the area. The assumption we'll not notice only one nigga in the whole area regularly gets to speak, or is listened to, is just more of the same racial nonsense.

Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. 

It's common to have racism without 'racists.'"

- Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.

It's kind of hard for me to believe under the circumstances - in a white country, set up and by whites, and where blacks have had to fight for justice over centuries - it could be any different. I mean how many whites have told me they "don't even THINK about race"? 

That self-imposed ignorance serves a purpose for whites, going far beyond plausible deniability for what happens. No, the imperative to lie - overtly and covertly - is too strong, and white pride is (apparently) still far too fragile for getting at the truth of America, being what the new wrong-headed Amazon series on the Confederacy accurately calls a white person's  Point of Honor. 

A curiously thorough demonstration of the ways in which a refusal to think about racism is just another, slightly more subtle, form of racism.

And, Lord knows, whites also would never THINK of letting THAT little problem stop their continuing, centuries-long, despicable behavior. Oh well, as long as somebody black's still breathing:

Look, I know the score - and there's another election coming - so, once again, let the games begin, for better or ill,...
 

So I Think I Got This Scott Walker Guy All Figured Out

The Ku Klux Klan, marching through Madison, Wisconsin - 1902

TMR's about to make a come back, Kids, full of fire:

America, get prepared for the flogging blogging you deserve,...

There's Something About Wisconsin That's All Wrong

Mikwaukee County Supervisor Deanna Alexander's (.@DAforMKE) Racist Tweet http://t.co/BtEm5gnh3q #ICantBreathe pic.twitter.com/zslIQPECx7
— KHARY PENEBAKER (@kharyp) December 24, 2014

They seem to think they're being so damned cute,....

Come On, Baby, Light My Fire (Then Kill Me 4 Burning)

“David Clarke, black Milwaukee sheriff: Eric Holder has ‘disgusted’ me”

Gee: shouldn't the Washington Times have added what color Eric Holder is? You know, just to balance it out? And why, since I'm sure they're "colorblind" and all, did they highlight David Clarke's race? And why - in a media environment filled with racial mind games - do white people hate being called "white" so much? If it's good enough for a "black Milwaukee sheriff" (and I've heard no complaints) why not Ann Althouse, white Madison law professor? Oh yeah: I've been told it's racist to do that.

"I was never taught that American democracy and African American destruction are not substitutes but complements. I was never taught that the relative wealth of America is derived from theft. I was never taught that state sanctioned violence was not a residual piece of American life, but the core of it. I was never taught that the fulcrum of the American criminal justice system was never justice at all,..."

You left out Ruth Shalit, lazy black people, welfare mommas, and Ruth Shalit writing about lazy black people. @jamescdownie
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 4, 2014

I don't know what they're doing to Wisconsin's water but, whatever it is, it's wrong. A lot of right-of-center white people are talking about the break-up of The New Republic, but the most fascinating thing about it is their sincere concern for what was now a historically "sloppy" and racist publication, best exemplified by the crazy career of Wisconsin's own Ruth Shalit. Really, white people, you don't know how good you've got it - especially in Wisconsin: black sheriffs who feel disgust for black people. White women who feel disgust for black people. It sounds like paradise, for everyone but black people.

"In the first Justice Department action against an insurance company under the federal Fair Housing Act, American Family Mutual Insurance Company has agreed to pay over $16 million for allegedly providing Blacks with inferior policies than those offered to whites and in some cases for simply refusing to insure homes of African Americans,...the case was filed in 1990 when eight Black Milwaukee homeowners backed by the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the company in federal court,..."

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Many white people, continuing to deliver the wrong response, seem to have locked onto cigarette taxes for the death of Eric Garner. See, if the tax hadn't been so high, he wouldn't have had a market for loosies - simple, huh? Not as simple as, if the government and white people didn't practice multiple centuries worth of discrimination against blacks, the Eric Garner's of the world wouldn't need to sell loosies to begin with. But then, history's rarely white's strong suit these days. Passing the buck is what's "in":

"Police union: ‘We don’t believe it’s an issue of race. We believe it’s an issue of poverty’"

"No, it’s not a race thing. It’s a Ray Kelly thing. That man singlehandedly ruined this department."

”The NYT and Rush Limbaugh have a similar take on the NYC chokehold incident, but there's a key difference.”

"What happened to Eric Garner was nobody's fault but his own."

White people have got the situation down:

Which all explains why blacks, nation-wide - and while, supposedly, looking at their own country - are now lit up like roman candles,....