Posts Tagged ‘racism’
Back home, a page from the Sarah Palin playbook
Remember back when Sarah Palin was baiting David Letterman over his stupid joke? (I know. I wish I didn’t either.) Remember the best part of that, when the pro-Palin people started slinging rape accusations around? And then mounted a shame-on-you media campaign against Letterman’s advertisers? Turns out the liberals might be a little better at [...]
A look at the American heartland, from a West Virginian who can’t explain it
I keep getting asked–this is a paraphrase–”Why is West Virginia still so damn racist?” Media reports on the racism in the part of the world my home town represents have made me a token Appalachian, on the hook for explaining something I really can’t. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. All my good progressive [...]
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