Scene from today's tea baggin' pep rally

[SHRED]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Yup...

About right.

K&R

[grantcart]

2. pathetic then pathetic now good find

[roguevalley]

20. inbred rednecks. Funny story though. One of the women in this picture sought

out and apologized to one of the kids just last year. She outgrew teh stoopid and felt ashamed. Redemption is possible but not for the stogy guy I fear.

[Amonester]

3. I don't call them Retardlicans for nothing.

Not one inch of evolution in all those years between then and now.

[Egnever]

4. Race mixing is communism!

an oldy but a goody. Some things are timeless it seems. Be afraid of the others! They will take what you have!

OOGA BOOGA!
:puke:

[Chipper Chat]

5. Grand conclusion of the rally:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. I remember that time -

and I thought we'd traveled some distance away from that mindset.

I was wrong. I think racial prejudice is just as virulent in the United States today as it was fifty years ago.

People have just learned to hide it better. But it's all still there, as intact and disgusting as ever.........................

[Quasimodem]

8. I don’t think I would go that far.

Then, that opinion was prevalent throughout the south and a good deal of the north. Most people were raised on bigotry and accepted it without thinking. When they were forced to think, many changed their minds and got on with life.

Today's bigots are the ones whose brains were too calcified to change, and their unfortunate children, who were taught that same old way and didn’t question.

In 1960 that picture could have been taken most anywhere. Busing today meant hauling the ignorant, gullible, or bought from all over the country to make up a crowd of about seventy thousand.

That is a larger number than I care to consider, but it is no where near the number it once was.

Progress has been made, but the last handful of chickpeas in the box always makes the most noise.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. I hope you're right -

I would like to believe you're right.

But I need a whole lot more convincing to wrench me out of this "hopeless" state...............

[Control-Z]

10. My father was a horrible racist.

A Bircher. When I was a little girl he called the republicans commies. I didn't even know for some time that there were two major parties left of him. He was a registered Independent - not because he could swing in either direction but because there was no other party hateful enough for him. And the truth is, I never in my life knew anyone as angry and hateful. What I've seen and heard in the past few months has come close.

I really think most of these people have felt this way all of their lives, but mostly kept it to themselves. I believe what we're seeing is their last ditch effort to hold onto their past and their power.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. You made it out of your father's house

in fine shape, and I congratulate you. It had to have been rough.

I know that gains have been made - I mean, we have a President whose father was African! - but, overall, we've made no progress at all. Your theory that people have felt this way all their lives is absolutely correct, as far as I'm concerned. They know how to disguise it, but it's always been there.

Now, paradoxically, at a time when it all should be more wide open, when people are finally, maybe, open to talking honestly about race, the hatred busts out. It's as if they couldn't control themselves any longer, that they'd been pushed to their breaking point.

And, you know, if you're a racist, the inauguration of Obama had to have been that breaking point. Look at what's going on now, and the GOPigs are just craven enough to exploit all that seething frustration and anger and bitterness.............................

[BR_Parkway]

14. add in the complete failure of their political ideas (as evidenced

by the market's collapse, the Iraq War, etc) and you've got a lot of people out there just ripe for recruitment.

[Control-Z]

19. I'm not sure how

my sister and I were both able to repel his hate, but by the age of 7 I was horrified by him, and embarrassed, and I knew he was wrong. A beating I got from him, over a little AA girl, stands out in my mind as a defining moment in my life, though. She was a cute, skinny little girl just like I was at the time, shopping for school clothes in the same store, and I knew in my heart that she could not possibly be the monster (his name for her was far worse) he had been warning me about all my life.

I have always wondered what determines which children will follow in their abusive parent's footsteps. Maybe my father went too far with his hate? Perhaps it was a good thing that he exposed himself as the blatant racist he was. As ugly as it is to witness, these people we're seeing are doing the same thing, exposing themselves for the racists they are, and leaving no doubt in anyone's mind.

I honestly believe our youth will finally put most of this hatred to bed in a few years. There just won't be that many hateful old people left. Yeah, there will always be a new group of up and coming racists, but the group gets smaller with each generation.

[ccharles000]

7. k/r

[lib_wit_it]

11. LOL! Then, oh bummer. It's so true. /m

[Swamp Rat]

12. k&r

[Oneiros]

15. Does anyone here do ANYTHING but insult republicrats, bitch and moan?

Seriously. I've been reading this forum for about 20 minutes.

I've yet to hear one argument, idea, or concept.

All I've seen is bitching, insulting, and about 50 people playing the victim.

This is pathetic, I'm out.

[KG]

16. don't let the door hit on the ass, jerk-off.

[roguevalley]

22. he got tombstoned, the dumbass.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

17. How about this?

Health care for all! Even YOU!

[myrna minx]

18. Here - have a hug

:hug: And what pray, are your ideas and concepts?

[Rex]

21. Oooh, republicrats...that is cute!

Oh and you are out, nice. You didn't hang around for an argument, coward.

Seeya loser.

Tombstone this clown already.