Village Voice: White America Has Lost It's Mind

[kpete]

The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion
Source of White Stress:

As with other forms of dementia, the signs weren't obvious at first. After the 2008 election, when former House majority leader Tom DeLay suggested that instead of a formal inauguration, Barack Obama should "have a nice little chicken dinner, and we'll save the $125 million," black folks didn't miss the implication. References to chicken, particularly of the fried variety, have long served as a kind of code when white folks referred to black people and their gustatory preferences—and weren't many of us already accustomed to older white politicians making such gaffes? But who among us sensed that it was a harbinger that an entire nation was plunging into madness?

ARTICLE:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-29/news/white-america-has-lost-its-mind/

[Warpy]

1. They're all Archie Bunker, but without any of his good qualities.

It's no accident that they're mostly in that generation born during the Depression and through WWII, Nixon's "silent majority" and probably the most entitled bunch this country has ever produced.

Matt Taibbi skewers them nicely here: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904?RS_show_page=0

[OregonBlue]

3. Yes, they're all Archie Bunker, but not as smart. LOL.

[Karenina]

10. bttt...

[Bitwit1234]

2. I know I know the thing about fried chicken BUT

I don't understand it really. I am white AND HAVE BEEN ALL MY LIFE (get that) I love love love fried chicken. I like watermelon...especially if you plug it and saturate the innerates with vodka...wonderful but not as much as fried chicken. So when I hear someone say something about fried chicken it gets my hackles up. These people are stupid. I once had a boy friend who wouldn't try potato soup, because he said it was poor man's food. Well those rich folk don't know what they are missing. How much does cold potato soup with it's fancy name cost at most elite establishments.

[Obamanaut]

4. Hundreds of additional responses on these earlier threads

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=9240178

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=9227118

[IcyPeas]

5. 2 disgusting quotes from this article (if you read nothing else, read these)

"...And what a mob. White folks used to shy away from candidates who e-mailed pictures of a woman being fucked by a horse, didn't they? Can you just see the scene down at the Republican Party headquarters: "Well, except for sending out those e-mails of horse-fucking, other e-mails of nigger jokes, and also fathering a love child, this guy Carl Paladino is just our kind of guy!" "

and this guy is actually getting a lot of votes?


and Laura Schlessinger speaking on her phone in show to a black woman):

"....She (schlessinger) said "nigger" is fine to say because "black guys use it all the time."

She then wrote the caller off as having a "chip on shoulder" and declared, "We've got a black man as president, and we have more complaining about racism than ever."

She told the caller that if "you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor" (i.e., you even question that your husband's white friends say "nigger" to you in your house), "don't marry out of your race."

The caller, Schlessinger thought, was suffering from "hypersensitivity—which is being bred by black activists." Her discomfort with the word "nigger," Schlessinger said, was just another "attempt to demonize whites hating blacks."

and then Palin stuck up for Schlessinger by saying... "Sarah Palin then rushed to Schlessinger's, side, Tweeting in her inimitable style, "Don't retreat . . . reload!" Palin, we can only assume, wanted Schlessinger to utter "nigger" as often as she wanted."

so the fact that "White America has lost it's mind" is a pretty accurate title of this article.

(from village voice article referenced above)

[OneBlueSky]

7. and some nice fresh watermelon for dessert, no doubt . . .

love Taibbi's proposed definition of tea baggers in the current Rolling Stone . . .

"A loose definition of the Tea Party might be millions of pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the handful of banks and investment firms who advertise on Fox and CNBC." . . .

Also . . . "It would be inaccurate to say that the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, is narcissists. They're completely blind to how offensive the very nature of their rhetoric is to the rest of the country. . . It's not that Tea Partiers hate black people. It's just that they're shockingly willing to believe the appalling horseshit fantasy about how white people in the age of Obama are some kind of oppressed minority. That may not be racism, but it is incredibly, earth-shatteringly stupid."

[Karenina]

6. . .

[David Zephyr]

8. Classic cover.

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[Karenina]

9. And NOW they're taking on the Chinese AND Europe!

Wait, doesn't Yurp have white people in it too? :freak: To China: "We're the only thing standing between YOU and the Israelis bombing all your deals to smithereens." To Europe: "We can't have our folks going over there and picking up some funny ideas with their lying eyes!!! We can CRASH your already depressed tourism with our clarion call,"TURRIST ATTACKS IMMINENT!" Never mind, some white folks here are ALSO LOSING DEY DAMN MINDS!!! "BURKHAS!!!" :crazy:

[Karenina]

11. bttt!