Are all conservatives and Republicans racists? No, not at all.
But if one is a racist or bigot, are they more likely to be Democrat or Republican?
Republican, of course. If you’re an ignorant, hate-spewing fearmonger, there is a home for you in the GOP. So much so that you might even get elected to congress at the state or federal level. Just ask Jon Hubbard. He knows.
As a matter of fact, the Arkansas state Rep. is so proud of his racist views that he actually wrote about them in a book he titled, Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative. Hubbard is not shy in telling the “black race” that the whole slavery gig they endured for almost 250 years, well, that was a good thing – a blessing in disguise, if you will.
“… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.”
There you go. What’s a little enslavement when the end reward for your descendants is citizenship in the “greatest nation” on the face of the earth. And yet, blacks still bitch about it. Ingrates. Slavery, at least in Hubbard’s mind, was nothing more than a minor irritant compared to what life in Africa would have been like.
African Americans must “understand that even while in the throes of slavery, their lives as Americans are likely much better than they ever would have enjoyed living in sub-Saharan Africa.” “Knowing what we know today about life on the African continent, would an existence spent in slavery have been any crueler than a life spent in sub-Saharan Africa?”
See? Hubbard understands that having every one of your basic human rights forcefully taken away is much sweeter than living free and walking around the dark continent wearing little more than a leopard skin loin cloth. He understands this because…because…never mind. He gets it. You don’t.
Unfortunately, Hubbard tells us, this freedom thing did go too far. The “black race” should have been satisfied with the Emancipation Proclamation and not pushed for more equality. Apparently, school integration really messed up white folk.
“… one of the stated purposes of school integration was to bring black students up to a level close to that of white students. But, to the great disappointment of everyone, the results of this theory worked exactly in reverse of its intended purpose, and instead of black students rising to the educational levels previously attained by white students, the white students dropped to the level of black students. To make matters worse the lack of discipline and ambition of black students soon became shared by their white classmates, and our educational system has been in a steady decline ever since.”
Damn lazy, ignorant “black race” really screwed it up for all those hard-working white folk, didn’t they? Shameful.
All good racists can thank good Republicans like Jon Hubbard to keep the flames of hate burning strong.
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I agree that Jon Hubbard is a despicable man but to state that there are more bigots in one party than the other is wrong. Hate can be equally found in both democrats and republicans.
When I’m around Repub friends and family I hear all kinds of things about the niggers and fags and etc. I don’t when I’m around Democrat friends and family. You’re right, both Parties are EXACTLY the same.
redstategirl…you make a valid point…and it is true you can find hate in both parties…
But as a Democrat…it seems to me that I hear more bigoted verbage from the far right of your
Republican party than I do from anywhere else…
And unfortunately it is the far right of your party that rules your party…
And it is disturbing when I recall all the great things the Republicans accomplished so many years ago…
Hey Mario, what was the name of the president who issued the executive order for the Emancipation Proclamation? And what party was he affiliated with?
I’ll give you a clue. His first name was Abraham and I don’t think he was part of the democrat party.
Marcus, it’s 2012, not 1863. And you know as well as I do what standing Lincoln would have in today’s GOP.
Marcus, Redstate,
What about the mass republican voter suppression that is going on now? Tell me that isn’t racist.
There’s something bad in the Arkansas water. Another GOPer in that state, Charlie Fuqua, has come out in favor of deporting all Muslims and putting unruly children to death. That will teach the underachieving little bastards a good lesson.
http://www.newser.com/story/155478/arkansas-goper-give-unruly-kids-the-death-penalty.html
OC, you need to get away from MSNBC for a while. Only a liberal could make the argument that asking people to show identification before voting is voter suppression. Let me try to explain it to you. Asking a passenger to show picture ID before boarding a plane is not suppression. It’s smart security. It’s done to protect everyone’s right to be able to fly safely. Same goes with voting. Photo ID protects our right to vote in a system where every means is used to prevent fraud. It ensures that your vote counts.
@ Marcus, If voter ID is not designed to suppress voters who might vote for Obama, how do you explain this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOT1bRYdK8
Marcus
That is all rationalization. They are Republicans “solving” a problem that doesn’t exist. Fraud is ridiculously negligible. Voter ID isn’t necessary, it is targeted at suppressing the minority vote.
If you don’t get it you are diluting yourself and trying to make excuses for something ugly and shameful.
I think you know this and choose to give a party line explanation because it helps you sleep at night.
I don’t believe flying in a plane is a Constitutional Right but…
Just whom is a “Photo ID” protecting us FROM?
Also President Lincoln said that “government is FOR the people and BY the people and shall never perish” – why have 99.9% of Republicans pledge to “drown it in a bathtub”?
Why has, historically, “fraud” been found committed mostly by Republican election officials?
I’m sure those indicted recently in several states for “election fraud” all had “Photo ID’s” – why are Republicans not furiously making legislation to prevent that?
Marcus, the fact that you think slavery and it’s rabid underpinnings ended with Lincoln in 1863 betrays your utter lack of of perspective as well as the history of US race relations. Ever hear of “Jim Crow”, Marcus? Ever hear of Addie Mae Collins, Marcus?….She was one of the children dynamited at the 7th Street Baptist Church in 1962 in Birmingham Alabama, Marcus How about Goodman and Cherney who were murdered because they sought to assure their fellow citizens a right you would so cavalierly dismiss: THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR WHICH SCORES OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS GAVE THEIR VERY LIVES Concerned about voter fraud, Marcus? Look into Diehbold and your fellow reactionary Rebloodlican gangsters
And by the way, Marcus: FUCK ME? Nah. Fuck you and your ilk that will squeeze the country into a latter day Mexico in which only the very rich and the very poor exist, hardly a prescription for American Exceptionalism.
Marcus,
That’s what Steve was talking about when he said:
And it is disturbing when I recall all the great things the Republicans accomplished so many years ago…
The Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln, Theodore R., and Eisenhower. It’s now the party of people of people like Bachmann, Palin, Santorum, Hubbard, Akin and Fuqua.
“the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” I always get a kick out of this Rethug mantra. Kinda reminds me of “my city’s football team is the greatest ever!” To the Rethugs, elections are like sports.
Why not just go all the way and say the US is “the greatest fucking nation that ever existed in the universe!” We’re number one, we’re number one!
Stupid Republicans.
The idea that your country is the greatest is called ethnocentrism. Rather than shouting loudly that you’re number one it would be better to be a little more humble and ask questions like, if we’re number one why does Cuba have a lower rate of infant mortality? If we’re number one why is the life expectancy in 35 or so countries higher that ours? If we’re number one why does the WHO rate us number 37 in overall healthcare availability? If we’re number one why do we have such a high rate of poverty and the largest percent of citizens behind bars in the world?
Why say “God bless America?” I’m an atheist but I think all believers in God should take a lesson from Dickens’ Tiny Tim and say, “God bless us everyone.”
Charlie,
You silly Democrat; using facts. Didn’t the great St. Ronald of Reagan say “facts are stupid things.”?
Seriously, though – Rethugs must fell pretty insecure about their country if they have to hear that we’re “the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” all the time.
I like your point about “God bless America” vs. “God bless us everyone.”
Finally, I’d like to paraphrase a commenter from the Hullabaloo blog (from back when they still had comments) – (s)he used to say, in response to whatever the Rethugs were putting forward, “because……….FREEDOM!”
Cheers!
Saint Stephen
Every time I hear a Republican scream “FREEDOM” I think, “Yeah, freedom to….
take away my right to vote
take my income and redistribute it to those who don’t need it
allow our water, air and earth to be polluted by those who care more about their quarterly reports, than the people who work for them
take away a woman’s right to decide what to do with her own body
allow the financial institutions to screw us over yet again
take away health care that helps people who can’t afford it
take away assistance for children and seniors
take away public education for the many who will be left behind while others are allowed to “opt out” — what happens to those left behind?
take away my freedom and the freedoms of others like me.
I have heard, or read of, each of the following excuses given for requiring a voter ID, and here is my response to each one of them:
“You need an ID to buy Sudafed.”
Buying medicine is not a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments.
“You need an ID to buy a drink.”
Buying alcohol is not a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments.
“You need an ID to get into an R-rated movie.”
Attending a movie is not a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments.
“You need an ID to cash a check.”
Cashing a check is not a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments.
“You need an ID to get on a plane.”
Air travel is not a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments.
“You need an ID to get a job at the Justice Department.”
A job at the Justice Department is not a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments.
“You need an ID to drive a car.”
Driving a car is a privilege; it is not a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments.
“You need an ID to use a credit card.”
Consumer credit is not a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments.
“So why shouldn’t you need an ID to vote?”
Voting is a right guaranteed by seven constitutional amendments*.
Any questions?
*The fourteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, twenty-second, twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth all deal, fully or in part, with the right to vote; more amendments deal with this single issue than any other enumerated constitutional right.
Of course the Republicans are far too interested in preserving second amendment rights rather than rights that have to be reaffirmed over and over again because people keep finding ways to take them away.
Great Post, Mr. Blair ! I second that emotion !
Jon Hubbard’s view on African-American decendants being kidnapped away from their tribes, their families and their homes, is kind of like a woman being raped, becoming pregnant with their rapist child and then the rapist proclaiming that they were actually very fortunate to have been raped by him, because now they would have the priviledge of carrying his child.
The Republican Party has stooped the lowest, just trying to keep from dying out and becoming extinct, like an inferior breed of animal. In 2009, after they lost the presidency and both house of congress, Republicans allowed the bottom feeders – the bigots, the most extreme elements of their party – to become the voice of the GOP. In doing so, they had to throw decency, compromise and fairness out the window. Jon Hubbard is obviously one of those bottom feeders.