It’s nice to see that Mittens continues his flip-floppery. While he tried to deny his campaign’s pro-LGBT stance back in the day when he was running for the Senate against Ted Kennedy and it distributed a flier proving so, the latest maneuver is the craven embrace of a homophobic elected official from Kansas. Kris Kobach [...]

Racism in the GOP? Nah… just class from the state of Fred Phelps and the personal email of Rep. Mike O’Neal, via Pat Cunningham of the Rockford Register Star: Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal, from the city of Hutchison, sent an email before Christmas that compared the president’s wife to the Dr. Seuss character The Grinch, [...]

I won’t even break out the tiny violin for this piece of trash. Kevin William Harpham of Colville, WA, confessed to leaving an explosive device near the intended route of a Martin Luther King Day Unity March in Spokane. Stored in a backpack, it was packed with fishing weights coated with rat poison. Now he faces 32 [...]

What century is this? This story intrigues me because it makes me wonder how many houses of worship are this racist in this day and age? At Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church in Pike County, Kentucky, an inter-racial couple, Stella Harville, who is white and who was baptized there and a member of the church as a [...]

If people stepped outside their comfort zones and sought deep friendships w/people unlike themselves, we’d see less bigotry, period. Humans are generally lazy about acknowledging and accepting difference unless confronted with their own bias. And even then, it’s still a herculean effort to effect lasting change. What a sorry lot we are. That was a [...]

In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance. “Niggerhead,” it read. It’s an epic WaPo story that [...]

A link to this WaPo piece by David Weigel came bumping along my twitter trail today.  “Five myths about the ‘tea party’” challenges the notion that “The tea party is racist”, saying It’s a phenomenon that some activists call “nutpicking” — send a cameraman into a protest and he’ll focus on the craziest sign. Yes, [...]

Brown Man Thinking Hard has posted an excellent video to help non-Blacks step into the shoes of a Black person in this “post-racial” America and discover just how flimsy the term “post-racial” can be.  I have long had my own fantasies of opening a summer camp for heterosexuals called “Gay Camp”, where they have the [...]