What you need to know about the white power rally at Stone Mountain

Turtleneck wrote:Is this the statewide convention for the Republican Party of Michigan?


Sorry, Loose. Had to be done. This is a message board. Low hanging fruit must be grabbed.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Is this the statewide convention for the Republican Party of Michigan?


Sorry, Loose. Had to be done. This is a message board. Low hanging fruit must be grabbed.

No it's the Democratic convention idiot, do you not remember 1913?

But that wouldn’t be true. Johnson was a man of his time, and bore those flaws as surely as he sought to lead the country past them. For two decades in Congress he was a reliable member of the Southern bloc, helping to stonewall civil rights legislation. As Caro recalls, Johnson spent the late 1940s railing against the “hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves” in East Asia. Buying into the stereotype that blacks were afraid of snakes (who isn’t afraid of snakes?) he’d drive to gas stations with one in his trunk and try to trick black attendants into opening it. Once, Caro writes, the stunt nearly ended with him being beaten with a tire iron.
Nor was it the kind of immature, frat-boy racism that Johnson eventually jettisoned. Even as president, Johnson’s interpersonal relationships with blacks were marred by his prejudice. As longtime Jet correspondent Simeon Booker wrote in his memoirShocks the Conscience, early in his presidency, Johnson once lectured Booker after he authored a critical article for Jet Magazine, telling Booker he should “thank” Johnson for all he’d done for black people. In Flawed Giant, Johnson biographer Robert Dallek writes that Johnson explained his decision to nominate Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court rather than a less famous black judge by saying, “when I appoint a ****** to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a ******.”

According to Caro, Robert Parker, Johnson’s sometime chauffer, described in his memoir Capitol Hill in Black and White a moment when Johnson asked Parker whether he’d prefer to be referred to by his name rather than “boy,” “******” or “chief.” When Parker said he would, Johnson grew angry and said, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, ******, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”

That Johnson may seem hard to square with the public Johnson, the one who devoted his presidency to tearing down the “barriers of hatred and terror” between black and white.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:is Trump making an appearance?

DWags wrote:I don't think I want to know about any of this shit. Really

xsanguine wrote:

DWags wrote:I don't think I want to know about any of this shit. Really

I'd recommend nominating him for ban, then. It's a lot more efficient than refraining from clicking on the thread.

DWags wrote:

xsanguine wrote:

I'd recommend nominating him for ban, then. It's a lot more efficient than refraining from clicking on the thread.

I meant it's just fucking depressing that we still have so many of these assholes walking around.

DWags wrote:

xsanguine wrote:

I'd recommend nominating him for ban, then. It's a lot more efficient than refraining from clicking on the thread.

I meant it's just fucking depressing that we still have so many of these assholes walking around.

LooseGoose wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

No it's the Democratic convention idiot, do you not remember 1913?

1913?   Of course Woodrow Wilson was after that and FDR interned the Japanese after that....but you distort history when you ignore LBJ.  Was he in 1913 too?

But that wouldn’t be true. Johnson was a man of his time, and bore those flaws as surely as he sought to lead the country past them. For two decades in Congress he was a reliable member of the Southern bloc, helping to stonewall civil rights legislation. As Caro recalls, Johnson spent the late 1940s railing against the “hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves” in East Asia. Buying into the stereotype that blacks were afraid of snakes (who isn’t afraid of snakes?) he’d drive to gas stations with one in his trunk and try to trick black attendants into opening it. Once, Caro writes, the stunt nearly ended with him being beaten with a tire iron.
Nor was it the kind of immature, frat-boy racism that Johnson eventually jettisoned. Even as president, Johnson’s interpersonal relationships with blacks were marred by his prejudice. As longtime Jet correspondent Simeon Booker wrote in his memoirShocks the Conscience, early in his presidency, Johnson once lectured Booker after he authored a critical article for Jet Magazine, telling Booker he should “thank” Johnson for all he’d done for black people. In Flawed Giant, Johnson biographer Robert Dallek writes that Johnson explained his decision to nominate Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court rather than a less famous black judge by saying, “when I appoint a ****** to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a ******.”

According to Caro, Robert Parker, Johnson’s sometime chauffer, described in his memoir Capitol Hill in Black and White a moment when Johnson asked Parker whether he’d prefer to be referred to by his name rather than “boy,” “******” or “chief.” When Parker said he would, Johnson grew angry and said, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, ******, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”

That Johnson may seem hard to square with the public Johnson, the one who devoted his presidency to tearing down the “barriers of hatred and terror” between black and white.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

1913?   Of course Woodrow Wilson was after that and FDR interned the Japanese after that....but you distort history when you ignore LBJ.  Was he in 1913 too?



http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism

This is fucking rich. I literally just made up a year and loose comes in like clockwork.

NigelUno wrote:

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This is fucking rich. I literally just made up a year and loose comes in like clockwork.

Can you please stop turning every serious discussion into a silly slap fight?

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NigelUno wrote:

Can you please stop turning every serious discussion into a silly slap fight?  

See - I would think you're kidding and being sarcastic but you're ...Nigel... So I think you're being serious.

So, what 'serious disccusion' are you talking about?

NigelUno wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

See - I would think you're kidding and being sarcastic but you're ...Nigel... So I think you're being serious.

So, what 'serious disccusion' are you talking about?

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:And I don't want to slap Goose. It's kind of a joke around here that Goose likes to talk about political parties like it's ..1913.

LooseGoose wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:And I don't want to slap Goose. It's kind of a joke around here that Goose likes to talk about political parties like it's ..1913.

Yeah, I enjoy refuting your made up bullshit. But then again I'm the obsessed one.

xsanguine wrote:OTPT, how come you never want to tango with me? It makes me feel sad and left out. =(

I'm a pretty good dancer, too, you know.

tGreenWay wrote:

xsanguine wrote:OTPT, how come you never want to tango with me? It makes me feel sad and left out. =(

I'm a pretty good dancer, too, you know.

Is that what you did on ShipRock--dance? Must've been difficult getting up on your tippy toes with the ship pitching and yawing.

xsanguine wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:


Is that what you did on ShipRock--dance? Must've been difficult getting up on your tippy toes with the ship pitching and yawing.

They were nice enough to include a pole for me to use as a centerpiece, tGreenway.... sheesh, use your head.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:That's what I thought goose fuck you

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:That's what I thought goose fuck you

tGreenWay wrote:

xsanguine wrote:

They were nice enough to include a pole for me to use as a centerpiece, tGreenway.... sheesh, use your head.

Gimme a break. I've never claimed to be too smart, but I am too sexy.

NigelUno wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

NigelUno wrote:

Good to know they don't condone free speech.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Good to know they don't condone free speech.

I think they are talking about the content of said free speech Goose. Probably....

LooseGoose wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

I think they are talking about the content of said free speech Goose. Probably....

Agreed. I was spoofing on the wording, obviously it should have been phrased better. Or perhaps they should have remained silent and people would understand that just because some shouts something stupid on your lawn you don't agree.

Rocinante wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Agreed. I was spoofing on the wording, obviously it should have been phrased better. Or perhaps they should have remained silent and people would understand that just because some shouts something stupid on your lawn you don't agree.

Out they could say that these people are idiots and you shouldn't listen to them. That's free speech too!