The ‘White Crowd‘ at the recent South Carolina GOP debate lustily booed black debate panelist Juan Williams when he confronted shyster Newt Gingrich for calling Obama a “FoodStamp President.”

The majority of people who receive foodstamps are WHITE (59%) — a fact that Gingrich huddled over in order to racially smear black people for the purpose of enticing votes from racist whites in South Carolina. [ MORE ON FOOD-STAMP POLITICS ]

Meanwhile, a brand new batch of Ron Paul newsletters raises questions for the libertarian Republican — as well as a host of embarrassing fresh passages to go along with such classics as “the coming race war” and “the federal-homosexual cover up on AIDS” from earlier reports, TalkingPointsMemo.com reports.

Ron Paul claims “probably ten sentences out of 10,000 pages” were objectionable in his long-published newsletter series, even as he denies having ever written the content in question (or even having seen most of it). But, as TPM has reported and a new collection of Ron Paul newsletters posted by The New Republic confirms, racism, homophobia, and fringe conspiracy theories seem more like the newsletters’ raison d’etre than a rare aberration. In fact, even short promotional letters for the publication name-checked many of the most toxic passages.

Once again, contempt for African Americans and warnings of a “race war” are central themes in the most recently released materials. One issue warned “every honest American should be armed” to prepare for the coming violence.

“Today, gangs of young blacks bust into a bank lobby firing rounds at the ceiling,” one issue read, continuing: “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held as responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult, and should be treated as such.” [ READ MORE ]

In S.C. Debate Newt Gingrich Again Slams Obama as The ‘Best Food Stamp President’

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Ron Paul: Black Males Age 13+ are Big, Strong, Tough, Scary and Criminal!

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‘Campaign Racism’ is a Growing Issue For Republicans Newt Gingrich & Ron Paul

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Islamophobe Newt Gingrich Explains His Criteria For a MUSLIM President: Reject Sharia

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In Other Republican Propaganda | Obama Bashing | Lies | Racism | Bigotry
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When Jerry Springer Came to Fox News — Jerry Springer On Fox: “Every Single Day” Fox News “Bash[es] President Obama.” “It Is A Little Disingenuous” For Fox To Complain That “Newsweek May Be A Little Partisan.” [ GRETCHEN CARLSON'S LAUGHABLE DEFENSE OF FOX & FRIENDS ]

Hannity, Crowley Agree Obama Is “Food Stamp President,” Deny A Racial Aspect To Charge

Hannity: Obama Won’t Release “His College Transcripts, His Writings,” Because He “Probably Expressed His Radical Views“

Fox’s Andrea Tantaros: “I Think The Recession Was Good For Kids” Because They’ve Been “Humbled A Little“

Tantaros: GOP Only Gets 5 Percent Of The African American Vote Because Democrats Do “A Lot Of Brainwashing” [ WHY BULLET FACE IS WRONG!!]

Fox Still Inflating Keystone XL Pipeline Jobs Figure

Limbaugh: President Obama And Michelle Obama Are Not “Decent” Or “Average” Americans

OBSESSED Limbaugh Revives Attacks Against First Lady: “There’s A Reason She Is Called Michelle Antoinette”

Newt Gingrich thinks because he worked with Colin Powell & Condi Rice, he can teach the NAACP about foodstamps!

Gingrich’s Defense of Racist Foodstamp Statements

Scary: What New Hampshire Progressive Voters Think of The 2012 GOP Field

That’s the classic — “I have black friends, so I am not a racist” excuse! Racists often use this scheme to justify their evil doings — and, it’s nothing new in Republican campaign discourse.

Race-Baiting has been a staple of the GOP’s Southern Strategy Playbook in the last 50 years. In the eighties, Ronald Reagan, the greatest PR swindle in American history, successfully embedded into “frightened” white minds the false notion of “black welfare queens.”

In the eyes of many whites to date — black people are free-loading leeches feeding off the government coffers — paid for by white people.

Wrong! — [ READ HERE ]

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Racial minorities in the U.S. have spent their lifetimes in a society that has traditionally valued whites over them. For hundreds of years whites have dominated almost all aspects of life in the United States — including the key ingredient that holds the institution of racism together — political power.

It therefore didn’t come as a surprise that when Obama broke the “political power streak” — and, for the first time, a non-white president accepted the oath of office — white America rapidly began to lose its grip.

About 12:01 on the afternoon of January 20, 2009, the white American brain finally went haywire in spectacular fashion.

Hello …Tea Party!

Old school Gingrich and Santorum still strongly believe that an all out racist campaign will win them the presidency. Unfortunately for these two troglodytes, America has changed significantly in the last fifty years. Yes, there are still many who are rabidly racist, but they represent a fast shrinking portion of the electorate — which in another 10 to 20 years — will be reduced to an insignificant bunch of old, dying — hungry howling hyenas.

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Huffington Post: On Monday, in response to a question about health care following a routine Chamber of Commerce speech, super-wealthy Romney tried to illuminate the virtues of a free market.

“I like being able to fire people who provide services to me,” he said, his expression altering perceptibly as he heard the words tumble out. “You know, if someone doesn’t give me a good service, then I want to say, ‘I’m going to go get someone else to provide that service to me.’”

Mitt ‘Middle-Class’ Romney: ‘I Like Being able To FIRE People!‘

Romney has been labeled by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart as “the guy who looks like everyone who ever fired your dad.” [ READ MORE ]

Liar Mitt Romney Shamelessly Plays The Role of ‘Middle-Class‘ Mitt in New Hampshire

Greedy Bastard: Mitt Romney is a Model For a U.S. System Gone Bad

Predatory Paper Shuffler: The Bain Bombshell Opens Romney To Attacks

Will Romney’s ‘I Like Firing People‘ & ‘Corporations are People‘ Rhetoric Hurt His Campaign?

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Bonus — Republican Nonsense, Outright Lies, Mis-Information, Bigotry & Racism
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Limbaugh Says The Obamas View The Presidency As An “Opportunity To Live High On The Hog“

Limbaugh: “It’s Very Accurate To Say” That Conservative Republicans Are Bigger Enemy To Democrats Than Al Qaeda, Taliban, Iran [ FOR ONCE I DO AGREE RUSH!! ]

Fox Still Giving Trump A Platform To Promote Crackpot Obama Theories

On Fox, Radio Host Victoria Jones Mocks Fox’s Obsession With Attacking President Obama: “You Know As Long As There’s A Fox, There Will Always Be A Story On [Obama's] Failed Policies”

Fox’s Cavuto Says “We’ve Heard” That Wall Street CEOs Don’t Like Obama Because He Has “Bastardized” Them

Asman: Could Lower Wall Street Bonuses “End Up Hurting The Economy, And As A Result, The President’s Re-Election Chances?“

Ding-Bat Gretchen Carlson: “Independent” Todd Palin Endorsed Gingrich, “So What Does That Say About Independents Going For Gingrich?“

Fox’s Starnes Pushes “The Idea” That There Are “Socialist Tendencies Emanating” From The WH

References:

1. What is Racism
2. Anti Defamation League Defines Racism ] [ 3. Racism Defined in Wikipedia ]
4. 8 GOP Primary Moments That Would Make Jesus Weep

“On ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Herman Cain called the name of Perry’s Hunting ‘insensitive.’ Cain added that there ‘isn’t a more vile, negative word than the ‘N word’ and for him to leave it there as long as he did, before I hear that they finally painted over it, it’s just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country.’

According to the MiamiHerald.com, Perry’s campaign insisted that the Texas Governor quickly removed the term ‘Niggerhead‘ from the rock after the hunting camp’s name became known to his family. However, The Washington Post reports that a few visitors to Perry’s hunting camp remember seeing the term after the early 1980s, which is when the Texas Governor claims it was removed.” [ READ MORE ]

Herman Cain has uttered the understatement of the century, a hunting camp named “Niggerhead” isn’t merely “insensitive“, it’s abhorrent.

Rick Perry has a lot of splaining to do, this is a controversy than can drive the final nail in his presidential aspirations. Perry needs to hold a press conference to explain his failure to immediately remove the abominable sign.

If I bought or leased a hunting camp that had a huge rock with a racial slur painted on it, I would immediately paint over the words with black paint, blow up the rock, or have it delivered to someone, like Pat Buchanan, who would appreciate the monstrosity.

Rick Perry is acting like this incident is no big thing, and this speaks volumes about him. Perry needs to explain himself, or get out of the race.

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Rick Perry’s ‘Niggerhead’: Racism is Still The Dirty Little Secret of The Republican Party

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Sam Seder calls out New Mexico Gov. Martinez for immigrant bashing: “Countdown” guest host Sam Seder reviews the latest immigration rights issues in New Mexico, where Gov. Susana Martinez is using claims of terror threats to justify her immigrant bashing calls for proof of citizenship for the issuance of licenses in her state. Just last week she slammed supporters of the Dream Act, which would allow for the children of undocumented immigrants — here by no choice of their own — to become citizens if they go to college or serve our country in the armed forces. Gov. Martinez herself has admitted that her father’s father entered the U.S. “without documents,” which allowed her to be born as a U.S. citizen.

In Other Right-Wing Nonsense……

The Racism & Bigotry At Washington Times — The Washington Times published an illustration of President Obama’s face on late singer Amy Winehouse‘s body to illustrate a column by Jeffrey Kuhner that claimed Obama is “injecting the heroin of class warfare and socialism into our national bloodstream,” which will lead to “insanity and death.” This is just the latest outrageous Photoshopped image or illustration published by the Times to attack Obama. [ READ MORE ]

Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics: Social Security Edition [ READ MORE ]

“Poll Fixer” Frank Luntz Says 9-11 Anniversary “Allows Us To Appreciate [ CRIMINALS ] George Bush And Dick Cheney For Keeping Us Safe”

Memo To [ DINGBAT ] Gretchen Carlson: Economists Say Cutting Payroll Tax Would Boost Employment, Economy [ READ MORE ]

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   By: Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
In a previous column, I used the term CULTURAL GENOCIDE to describe the attempt by the state of Arizona to criminalize and to eliminate the teaching of Ethnic Studies. The use of the term unnecessarily set off a firestorm across the Atlantic. Incidentally, the similar attempt to destroy native cultures in the Americas in a previous era was called: REDUCCION. The term may not have been controversial, but the dehumanizing practice certainly was.

Perhaps its time to set off another firestorm, a necessary one this time. This effort has now devolved into an attempt by an APARTHEID school governing board in Tucson, Arizona to eliminate Mexican American Studies via a thousand bureaucratic cuts. The use of the term Apartheid is not used lightly; it is what we are up against in this historic Indigenous city in our battle to defend Ethnic Studies.

Admittedly, the term cannot be accurately used in relation to Arizona’s draconian anti-Mexican, anti-immigration-related and anti-Indigenous laws (racial profiling). Apartheid is a system of legalized discrimination by a minority upon a majority (South Africa’s former system of oppression). In Arizona, people of Mexican origin are still a minority, comprising approximately 30 percent of the state’s population, and growing. Because these laws have the same intent, it can perhaps more aptly be described as pre-apartheid.

The State’s effort to eliminate Ethnic Studies also qualifies as pre-apartheid, though the percentage of White students in Arizona schools is already less than 50 percent. The statewide Mexican American K-12 population is approximately 40 percent and growing daily. On the other hand, the term Apartheid is arguably accurate when describing the internal effort by the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) to degrade and essentially terminate its highly successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) program, especially considering the state’s political climate.

Rather than contest the constitutionality of HB 2281, TUSD’s board has elected to comply with the new anti-Ethnic Studies measure, which was signed on May 11, 2010, even though on that day, TUSD affirmed that the TUSD program was already in compliance (Supporters of the program locally are calling for a national day of convergence on Tucson May 11, 2011 in support of Ethnic Studies).

While this board should be contesting this law, instead it is rushing to what appears to be an effort to dismantle MAS-TUSD from within. The obvious question is: who is this board representing? For the record, the district superintendent is white, as are three members of the governing board. Two members are Mexican Americans. TUSD’s K-12 student body is close to 70% Mexican American and at least 75% students of color. TUSD’s K-6 is close to 80% Mexican American and growing. Unquestionably, the community that TUSD serves is not being adequately represented. At each meeting, while board members don’t always vote according to their race/ethnicity, it becomes more and more obvious; students, parents and community members (majority brown) are forced to literally beg the board for support. Like overlords, the board members “listen,” but never comment.

In the past few months, critics have resorted to voodoo statistics to claim that MAS is not in fact a successful program. Statistics recently released by TUSD’s statistician does in fact confirm that its MAS students district-wide do substantially better than students not enrolled in the program.

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Despite this, the effort to dismantle the program continues. Recently, the superintendent has moved the program (and its directors) under a bureaucrat who is openly hostile to the besieged MAS program. It has next moved to designate MAS classes as unaccredited elective courses, which has the effect of dismantling the program. This move is imminent. Additionally, the state has ordered a curricular audit by a firm that specializes in turning around failing programs. MAS-TUSD graduates more than 90 percent of its students, this at a time when dropout rates nationwide for students of color range between 40-60 percent (The firm is not auditing any of the state’s many failing programs). On top of this, a financial audit has also been ordered by TUSD. To shut the nails on the coffin, the program’s highly acclaimed summer transformative educator’s conference — 12 years running — is now history.

Despite all these attacks, Mexican American Studies is not dead; the HB 2281 lawsuit against the state by 11 educators is moving forward. Also, the transformative conference will still be held this summer, with nationally and internationally acclaimed speakers, but independent of the TUSD. And the program continues to gather support; this past month, it received unanimous endorsements from the annual conferences of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the National Association of Ethnic Studies.

Because the attempt to eliminate Tucson’s MAS program comes falsely wrapped as an effort to achieve Martin Luther King’s dream of achieving a color-blind society — in the state that was last to recognize the MLK holiday — people everywhere recognize the importance of defending this program. After 40+ years of harassment, the discipline will be defended in the desert. Yet people everywhere also understand that this isn’t simply a debasement of King’s dream or simply an attack against Ethnic Studies, but that it is an effort to destroy the very precept of education itself. If uncontested, what’s next? Women Studies? European Studies?

Once government is in the position to decide what is acceptable curriculum and what are acceptable books, then the right to a free and uncensored education will have been compromised. This is the true specter of BIG GOVERNMENT. In Tucson, it comes wrapped in APARTHEID.