Daily Kos: Black Power's Gonna Get You Sucka: Right-Wing Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Modern Racism - http://www.dailykos.com/storyon...
Jul 13, 2010
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"Prominent white conservatives are angry about racism. Forget all that talk about a post-racial society. They know better than to believe in such a thing, and they’re hopping mad."
- Jim Norris
"But they're angry nonetheless about racism in America.
They're especially angry about the tax being placed on those who use tanning salons. Because this is racist. Against white people."
- Tudor Bosman
I'll go out on a limb and suppose that "Prominent white conservatives" are pissed off that we have a black president...
- Jeff P. Henderson
The two lists Tim Wise has collected are... pretty darn long and saddening.
- Andrew C (✔)
"But the intellectual strength of the claims is not the issue. It doesn't matter. From a political perspective, even the most insane-sounding claim about Obama's supposed hatred for white people makes sense. It's a perfect way to prime white racial fears and anxieties, [... In the modern US,] playing upon white anxiety is the perfect recipe for political mobilization.
They've said very clearly that they want their country back. And if we who oppose the right don't challenge these folks for the racists they are, or continue to shy away from making race an issue (as if it weren't already), they just might get it."
- Andrew C (✔)