Anonymous wrote:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576460483180662902.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories

I guess it's not the Old South that continues to be politically incorrect.

As the protestors over the Ground Zero Mosque remind us, New York is about 30% wingnut.

What voter suppression actually looks like:

http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/reports-emerge-of-intimidating-tea-party-poll-watchers-texas

...and, no, it doesn't have anything to do with a clown in a beret standing outside of a polling station.

Anonymous wrote:I love how a remote, rented, hunting camp has now become a private family getaway. We aren't talking John Kerry here. Hell we aren't even talking of a certain ranch in Crawford.

What Rev. Wright said about Americans and whites was completely disgusting and offensive. Obama (elected mind you) said he was like a member of his family and couldn't disown him. Why the different standard?

What did Wright actually say while Obama was in the audience? I'm truly curious. Do you even know?

PP, can you tell us more about the single guy in a beret? I'm genuinely curious--I don't know anything about this occurrence you are referring to.

Sure. This is the video that had the political right-wing roiling in anger over the last three years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU

Given that right-wing douchebags have been scouring polling stations across the country for a decade or two for actual incidences of voter intimidation against besieged white folks, it's a bit pathetic that this is the best they could come up with.

Just as a refresher, this is what voter intimidation looks like. It's the reason we passed a Voting Rights Act in this country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBPeCQzHu5w

From the article:

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.

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Perry’s version of events differs in many respects from the recollections of seven people, interviewed by The Washington Post, who spoke in detail of their memories of seeing the rock with the name at various points during the years that Perry was associated with the property through his father, partners or his signature on a lease.


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Brooks, who said he holds Perry “in the highest esteem,” said that at some point after Perry began bringing lawmakers to the camp, the rock was turned over. Brooks could not recall exactly when. He said he did not know who turned the rock over.

Another local who visited the property with Perry and the legislators in those years recalled seeing the rock with the name clearly visible.

PP, can you tell us more about the single guy in a beret? I'm genuinely curious--I don't know anything about this occurrence you are referring to.

As usual, Matthew Yglesias nails it:

I’ve learned in long years of experience blogging about American politics that there are no racists in the United States. Certainly if there are any, they’re not white people. And certainly if there are any racist white people, they’re not conservatives. So let’s just say that if you’re a Republican county commissioner in Minnesota, this is the kind of thing that might lead you to wonder if Perry’s brand of politics will play well outside the Old Confederacy where people sometimes misunderstand this kind of thing.

I love how a remote, rented, hunting camp has now become a private family getaway. We aren't talking John Kerry here. Hell we aren't even talking of a certain ranch in Crawford.

What Rev. Wright said about Americans and whites was completely disgusting and offensive. Obama (elected mind you) said he was like a member of his family and couldn't disown him. Why the different standard?

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Anonymous wrote:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576460483180662902.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories

I guess it's not the Old South that continues to be politically incorrect.

Hmmm. So you mean there are racist, conservative shit-heads who live north of the Mason-Dixon line? Shocking! I'll need to reexamine all my existing preconceptions now!

Conservative equals racist? You may want to check with Harry Reid on that.

Just want to say two things: first, Reid is one of maybe the three most conservative Democratic politicians in Congress, and a Mormon. It's the same thing with folks who used to get their panties in a wad about Byrd. Wow, he used to be a Klan member in WV during the 12th century! Very relevant. Meanwhile, these guys couldn't stop celebrating Jesse Helms, who was essentially a racist piece of shit until he spat out his last poisonous breath, and Satan dragged his befouled spirit down to Hades.

But, yes, the support for institutional racism is a conservative impulse. Just as institutional misogyny, or homophobia. All of those policies are attempts to enforce an existing social order--the order from the Good Old Days. Progressive politics is about overthrowing such irrational social constructs. Conservativism is about protecting them.

From the article:

"DEC cannot and does not have the authority to rename roads, water bodies, or any other natural resources in the state," said Ms. Severino. "These are historical records and sometimes date back hundreds of years. We can, however, change or remove how they are referenced under DEC regulations and to strive to be proactive in those measures whenever possible."

The precise origin of the names is a mystery to even the most rooted locals.

"I'd like to say, 'Talk to one of the old folks around here,' but the trouble with that is I'm 83." said Tom Bissell, a local historian from Hamilton County.

The federal government began to strip the n-word from its topographic maps in the early 1960s. But within the more obscure reaches of cartographic bureaucracy, the n-word occasionally endures.

So, on the one hand: you've got tiny backwoods features on old topo maps that have never been revised even though there was a national attempt to do so beginning in the early 60s. (Of course, this was when elected in the South were screaming the word from the courthouse steps, and the campaign stump.)

Meanwhile, a GOP frontrunner has kept the name up until a few years ago at his family's private getaway that he goes to several times a year.

The fact that OP posted this as some sort of equivalent situation really illustrates perfectly the nature of lingering racism in the GOP and the South in general.

"What?!? What's wrong with 'N**r Head Lake'? It's historical!"

If you want a pitch-perfect example of the difference between "institutional racism" and "racial prejudice", just look at the hyperventilating that still goes on among right-wingers about a single guy in a beret with a cane who stood outside of a single polling station in a 99% black neighborhood in Philly on the one hand, and the front-runner of one of the two major political parties given a pass on this on the other.

*upstate

I thought the post was about Rick Perry's getaway in update NY.

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Anonymous wrote:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576460483180662902.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories

I guess it's not the Old South that continues to be politically incorrect.

Hmmm. So you mean there are racist, conservative shit-heads who live north of the Mason-Dixon line? Shocking! I'll need to reexamine all my existing preconceptions now!

Conservative equals racist? You may want to check with Harry Reid on that.

Anonymous wrote:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576460483180662902.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories

I guess it's not the Old South that continues to be politically incorrect.

Hmmm. So you mean there are racist, conservative shit-heads who live north of the Mason-Dixon line? Shocking! I'll need to reexamine all my existing preconceptions now!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576460483180662902.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories

I guess it's not the Old South that continues to be politically incorrect.