"2013 Resolve: No Return to Bigotry"
As we begin 2013, we're greeted with the news that Miss America, a legendary white-supremacist organization in the United States, is getting a make-over by the Right Wing. This may signal a return to the "Bimbo Bigotry" of the past (anybody remember Anita Bryant?) That was a double-header; anti-non-white, and anti-gay! Check it out! Young white women are being "encouraged" now to engage in politics; while they were "discouraged" from doing so in the 50's and 60's.
The rest of us need Help! (see my earlier blog, dated 23Mar12). Joan Walsh's new book, What's The Matter With White People ? arrived today. I encourage all citizens to break their silence and join the conversation on racial, and other social issues in this country. We all have stories to tell.
Evil succeeds best in "silence". We should have all learned that from the events of World War II. Let's not let the Republican Party roll back this nation's progress toward a free and fair society. Their spread into the "Red" states and their frenzied grab for guns should be alarming to us all. The "Backlash" that began, mostly in the South, in the late 60's is alive and spreading across our country. Demographics (shrinking numbers of whites and the ageing of our total population) inflame this movement. We don't want to turn into Syria!
They will attempt to re-elect John Boehner as their leader while they plot to shut down the government in the name of "fiscal sanity". This same element "wounded" Boehner in the last fracas over the "fiscal cliff". When their patron saint, Dick Cheney, famously declared just a few years ago that "deficits don't matter"; they had no problem with that. Their claims will be accepted only by those who choose to remain deceived.
We will do the country and the Republican Party a favor if we keep the pressure on and drive these elements out of that party and out of our politics. Harry Truman was forced to join the Klan for political reasons; we can stop that practice from returning in a new disguise. Beware also of this same phenomenon in "black-face" or "brown-face"; it is simply another variation of this element's fight to preserve white supremacy into the future.
Stay Vigilant!
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Evil succeeds best in "silence". We should have all learned that from the events of World War II. Let's not let the Republican Party roll back this nation's progress toward a free and fair society. Their spread into the "Red" states and their frenzied grab for guns should be alarming to us all. The "Backlash" that began, mostly in the South, in the late 60's is alive and spreading across our country. Demographics (shrinking numbers of whites and the ageing of our total population) inflame this movement. We don't want to turn into Syria!
They will attempt to re-elect John Boehner as their leader while they plot to shut down the government in the name of "fiscal sanity". This same element "wounded" Boehner in the last fracas over the "fiscal cliff". When their patron saint, Dick Cheney, famously declared just a few years ago that "deficits don't matter"; they had no problem with that. Their claims will be accepted only by those who choose to remain deceived.
We will do the country and the Republican Party a favor if we keep the pressure on and drive these elements out of that party and out of our politics. Harry Truman was forced to join the Klan for political reasons; we can stop that practice from returning in a new disguise. Beware also of this same phenomenon in "black-face" or "brown-face"; it is simply another variation of this element's fight to preserve white supremacy into the future.
Stay Vigilant!
Copyright © 2013: Williams LLC
All Rights Reserved: Williams LLC
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