Now this was enough to make me more than just angry.

[SeaCat]

I just saw this on the Local News and can only sake my head.

It seems the head of the K.K.K. has made the comment that if Obama wins the Presidency then he will be shot down.

In his televised comments he clearly stated that he wouldn't be the one who pulled the trigger. He didn't need to be because there were plenty of "Good Southern Boys" who would be willing to do it.

I personally would love to get this guy, the Grand Lizard or Imperial Sleeze or whatever the hell he's called in a back alley alone.

Cat

 

[glynndah]

You'd think we might have progressed just a little in the past 40 years...
*sigh*

 

[tickledkitty]

I guess it doesn't matter if would happen to be the best candidate? It seems like for every step forward we take about 10 steps back.

 

[rgraham666]

Need some one to watch your back, Cat.

 

[Huckleman2000]

In a bout of insomnia the other night I semi-consciously watched part of a documentary about the KKK. I was seriously shocked. Especially at the extent to which political and church leaders were involved, and how 'mainstream' it was even into the '50s and '60s.

I read where Michelle Obama was asked about the risk of Barack getting shot campaigning, and she bravely shrugged it off, saying he could just as easily get shot pumping gas in some neighborhoods, and commenter's sort of came down on her for 'playing the race card'.

I think they're a very brave couple, and just by running it demonstrates a belief in something greater than themselves. But having lived through several assassinations growing up, there's just a part of me that can't help but wonder when the bullet's going to come. I hate that.

 

[Liar]

Beh. Guys' on par with any other militant extremist out there. Fuck 'em.

 

[TE999]

You mean to tell me those racist assholes are still around?

I thought the FBI busted their backs in the 70's.

Oh well, one blathering nitwit getting his 15 minutes won't be much of a threat to anyone.

It's the one's who are quiet that you have to watch.

And they're not all in the South, either.

 

[cloudy]

And they're not all in the South, either.

Thank you.

 

[buxxxom]

Thank you.

What she said.

 

[cloudy]

What she said.

Do you get as tired of that as I do?

I'll be completely honest: I saw more racism and bias while I was in Canada last summer than I've seen the entire time I've lived in the South - about 25 years, give or take.

 

[FatDino]

Do you get as tired of that as I do?

I'll be completely honest: I saw more racism and bias while I was in Canada last summer than I've seen the entire time I've lived in the South - about 25 years, give or take.

I don't discriminate.

 

[buxxxom]

The news has been on, and I'll swear, it seems that the people they choose to interview haven't any more sense than God gave a Junebug! I shudder whenever North Carolina is depicted on CNN for any reason. Lots of people seem to think that we're all like the hillbillies in "Deliverance" since it was set here, so YES, I get tired of it.

 

[john-the-author]

The Klan is a bunch of possum-fucking idiots, it's true, but I'm also sad that the news stations actually give these guys a platform by putting them on TV. I often thought that Jerry Falwell wouldn't have been a fraction so much of a problem if he hadn't been treated like Someone with Something to Say by the news stations.

It seems kinda simple: if someone's just a dickhead with an IQ of 80, they don't merit being on the news unless they've (a) just given a million dollars that they saved up on their own to a school or a hospital or (b) they've killed/tried to kill themselves in some horrible Darwin-award fashion by exercising their limited intelligence.