An Open Letter to the White Right

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Doesn't the author sound just like a teabagger?

no one noticed that?

He sure doesn't sound like anybody that I have talked to that is involved with (or has sympathy with) the Tea Party movement.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Did anyone read the caveat in the introductory sentence. The author made it clear that it was not addressed to all white people. It was addressed to those who are not ready to accept those with another skin color as an equal. To those who have a stereotype of poor people as people of color. That is why they oppose programs to benefit the low income families. I think it is also addressed to the talking heads who reinforce racial fear and prejudice with code words like "urban" "SEIU thugs" "welfare recipients" "Muslim" or "Kenyan" or "illegals" "Obamacare" "New Black Panthers" or the biggest ones, "They" and "Them."

Regards,

D-Ray

I think the only point I missed was his assertion that it was not about all whites.

I think anyone who hasn't heard "the ticking clock", simply hasn't been paying attention. This is why I have been telling people that the recent election is only a "battle in a greater war".

There's just something about walls. Isn't there? We build them, we tear them down, or they eventually crumble all on their own. We just can't seem to keep the real world out forever, can we?

Dave

[merrylander]

Nice quiet letter to the editor in yesterday's WaPost. The author said that when he was a youngster he had a hard time making sense out of politics. So one day he asked his Dad, "What are we Dad?". His Dad said "We are Democrats, son."

"Why are we Democrats, Dad?"

"'Cause we are not rich, Son."

He concluded that he still was not rich and was still a Democrat.

[finnbow]

I think there's a lot of truth in the cited article, despite its unsavory tone. I've been reading about the fear and loathing associated with the white majority becoming a minority in the near future for quite a while now. His point is that if the GOP continues to capitalize on this fear to help win elections in the short term, it will help to write its own own future as a permanent minority party.

[merrylander]

The GOP always counted on the middle class as a buffer and that makes me wonder what on earth possessed them to set about its elimination. Now we are all in the same leaky boat and we all know who took the caulking out of the seams.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by JJIII

He sure doesn't sound like anybody that I have talked to that is involved with (or has sympathy with) the Tea Party movement.

obviously he is on the left but the tone is a mirror image of the teabaggers.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Nice quiet letter to the editor in yesterday's WaPost. The author said that when he was a youngster he had a hard time making sense out of politics. So one day he asked his Dad, "What are we Dad?". His Dad said "We are Democrats, son."

"Why are we Democrats, Dad?"

"'Cause we are not rich, Son."

He concluded that he still was not rich and was still a Democrat.

i think this sums it up

[piece-itpete]

I think the Dem operative that wrote that letter should:

1) print it out.

2) wrap it around a pencil.

3) wrap the whole thing in duct tape; and

4) stuff it up his ass.

Pete

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I think the Dem operative that wrote that letter should:

1) print it out.

2) wrap it around a pencil.

3) wrap the whole thing in duct tape; and

4) stuff it up his ass.

Pete

lmao but, why's that?

what do you think a teabagger sounds like to a responsible industrious American?

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I think the Dem operative that wrote that letter should:

1) print it out.

2) wrap it around a pencil.

3) wrap the whole thing in duct tape; and

4) stuff it up his ass.

Pete

Where did you pull your conclusion that it was a Democratic operative who wrote the letter. Was it wrapped around a pencil covered with duct tape?

Regards,

D-Ray