tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post2461645919293576525..comments2023-11-05T04:47:41.006-06:00Comments on A World Quite Mad: Racism in the 21st CenturyA World Quite Madhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18173346413223847865noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post-80178792498474557302009-07-11T11:28:45.918-05:002009-07-11T11:28:45.918-05:00@Sidhe, well isn't that special.
I didn'...@Sidhe, well isn't that special. <br /><br />I didn't even touch on the white supremacist movements in this country. If any think that racism is dead, all they need to do is avail themselves to look at the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp" rel="nofollow">Southern Poverty Law Center's</a> website, where they can see the fuck-off long list of hate groups that they watch, the majority are KKK and Aryan Nation/Skin Head/Christian Identity types. <br /><br />Hell the KKK had a march in my hometown back in, I think it was 1999. The city denied them a permit when they tried to march the next year because they had threatened violence.<br /><br />Racism isn't gone, and as long as people stick their heads up their asses and ignore the problem, it never will be.A World Quite Madhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173346413223847865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post-72651952687872834792009-07-11T08:44:12.073-05:002009-07-11T08:44:12.073-05:00Gee, just this week, Tuesday (in fact) I stopped i...Gee, just this week, Tuesday (in fact) I stopped into the grocery store for some last minute dinner items (buns and onions) and I ran into one of those fat guys that think they are really burly and he had on his lower right forearm one the largest swastika that I've seen in a long time (well, since last month when I witnessed a non-shirted man with one emblazoned on his back mowing his lawn in the Upper Peninsula on our way back from Minnesota). People around here think that the problem is over since it was swept under the rug a few years ago (after the NSM received a certificate from the City of Cadillac thanking them for cleaning the park and the outrage that followed, rumors of an unsolved murder and all) but the group remains, they've just worked underground since then and they are now primed for a big comeback because, by golly, our local radio stations are spewing the same filth and the rebel flag is cropping up all over northern Michigan (WTF? I don't know)...Sidhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03997017630623707478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post-62874285232078512512009-07-10T15:54:08.071-05:002009-07-10T15:54:08.071-05:00While I've never been under the illusion that ...While I've never been under the illusion that racism was dead in America, as a resident of Philadelphia, where 83% of the population voted for Mayor Nutter (an African American man) and an overwhelming majority voted for Obama, I've gotta say I was pretty shocked to read about the pool issue in my city. Clearly, despite major gains for racial minorities, racism is very much alive even here.YogaforCynicshttp://yogaforcynics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500191406855375600.post-28338713613476974212009-07-10T11:50:41.366-05:002009-07-10T11:50:41.366-05:00Amen. As long as we stay blind to our problems we ...Amen. As long as we stay blind to our problems we insure they stay firmly in place!ZIRGARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05292312948672927804noreply@blogger.com