About @&^$%* time Racism entered the national dialog!

[G_j]

The RW has been getting away with smoothing over their racism for too long. This is a disgrace. For example they have been spinning Roberts as a reasonable and good guy, bla, bla.

For a start, let's just hope the breaching of the taboo subject in the media will give people a moment of pause when considering this or other appointments and the larger subject of racism in the US, such as the prison industrial complex. I won't hold my breath though. The Dems continue to ignore the CBC, US policy toward Haiti etc. etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202370_pf.html

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A witness list released yesterday by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary signaled their intent to focus the hearings on the civil rights record of Roberts, who was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit two years ago. Like the administration he served in the 1980s, Roberts was a staunch opponent of affirmative action, generally took a narrow view of civil rights laws and fought efforts to expand anti-discrimination protections.

Among the witnesses the Democrats will call during the four days of scheduled hearings are several civil rights leaders, including the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Democrats also plan to call witnesses who have advocated for the rights of the disabled and women.

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[Aunt Anti-bush]

1. I'm a white woman and as I was watching last night,

tears streaming down my face, I was thinking how ironic this all is. I sat watching all the news, hoping and praying for our African American leaders to lead us out of the darkness, into freedom.

[G_j]

2. as a white man

I find that the Congressional Black Caucus represents and speaks for my values more than any of the other elected leaders. I also have looked to them as a single ray of hope for a while now.

That scene from Fahrenheit 9/11 also continues to haunt me.