Man these right-wingnuts needed this confederate flag flap like they needed a hole in their heads.It’s been interesting to see all the twisting and “pretzel-logic” going on as they try to avoid calling that despicable symbol of hatred for fear of turning off their base. I mean Mitt, bless his Wonder Bread heart, came out against the flag. But then he is no longer running for president. The others…well, not so much. Although Nikki Haley played the good party soldier by finally coming out against the flag and giving the republican candidates for president some cover.
And before we start treating what Haley did as if it was some profile in courage, let’s not forget where she stood on this subject not too long ago. I guess there is nothing like a little pressure from the business community to make some of these governors all of a sudden find moral clarity.
And before we start treating what Haley did as if it was some profile in courage, let’s not forget where she stood on this subject not too long ago. I guess there is nothing like a little pressure from the business community to make some of these governors all of a sudden find moral clarity.
“Today we are here in a moment of unity in our state without ill will to say it is time to remove the flag from our capitol grounds,” Haley, the state’s first non-white governor, said. “This flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state.”‘
Why just a little over a year ago the governor said this:
“What I can tell you is over the last three and a half years, I spent a lot of my days on the phones with CEOs and recruiting jobs to this state,” Haley said. “I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag.”
Maybe it took a conversation with a CEO or two to help her see the light.
This is all very interesting. It’s not only governor Haley. Republican politicians have been all trying to prove to the rest of us that many their supporters are not racist. (Good luck with that.)
We learned today that Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Rick Santorum gave back money that was given to them by the same racist organization that inspired Roof to kill those nine innocent people last Wednesday night.
“The campaigns of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rick Santorum said they would donate the money received from Holt to a fund set up by Charleston’s mayor to assist the victims’ families.
“I abhor the sentiments Mr. Holt has expressed,” Santorum said in a statement. “These statements and sentiments are unacceptable. Period. End of sentence”
Let me translate that for you: Now that the rest of America knows what I have suspected all along, that this man and his organization are racists, I cannot take this money from him without being exposed as a possible racist myself.
It’s been funny to see George Will and the folks over at FOX VIEWS throw themselves into a tizzy over the president saying Nigger (whoops, sorry, I meant n-word) in a candid moment while doing a popular podcast.
You have to wonder why some folks get upset when folks who have a license to use that word do just that. It’s almost as if they are angry that they can’t say it themselves.“George Will was troubled by Obama’s comment about how the legacy of slavery and racism is “still part of our DNA that’s passed on; we’re not cured of it.”
Will said race relations can’t possibly be getting better if that’s the case, calling it a “most unfortunate rhetorical reach” by Obama.
And if his point is, Will concluded, that America is “by nature racist,” “’it’s an unfortunate indictment of the nation and he should take it back.’”
What the president really said:
“I always tell young people, in particular, do not say that nothing has changed when it comes to race in America, unless you’ve lived through being a black man in the 1950s or ’60s or ’70s. It is incontrovertible that race relations have improved significantly during my lifetime and yours,” Obama said.”
You know what’s worse than being a racist? Being a liar and a racist.
*Pic from theatlantic.com