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Tucker Carlson Worries About 'Greasy' Barack Obama, Who's Just So Partisan
Somebody's worried about the election.
July 31, 2020 04:19 PM
On "The Tucker Carlson Smile-Time Caucasian Anxiety Jamboree" last night, Tucker Carlson used the occasion of John Lewis's funeral to warn Americans that the radical Left — or the "professional Left," because what's the point of being a commie if it's not profitable — is on a quest to totally seize power and destroy America. In other words, it was exactly like every other unhinged Tucker Carlson rant about how evil leftists are about to seize absolute power and destroy America.
But this time, you see, it was different, because just as we all loved seeing Barack Obama talking like a real president when he eulogized John Lewis yesterday, Tucker Carlson got to take a trip down memory lane too! Except his nostalgia for the Obama years meant he got the chance to once again call the former president "one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American politics," because — egad! — Obama said that the murder of George Floyd was a bad thing.
Guess we're not the only ones who miss Obama.
<p>Carlson's attack on Obama was part of yet another tirade about how The Left is the greatest threat to America today. We have to say, though, Carlson's paranoid tendencies seemed even more dire than usual, possibly because he sees Donald Trump's presidency about to be flushed and he's working to prepare his viewers to reject the loss, since there's no way Trump can lose in a fair fight. So he explained yet again that protests over police brutality have nothing to do with Black lives mattering; they're just a smokescreen for the plot against America:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p><br></p><blockquote>None of what you are watching is about civil rights. Violence and race baiting are the enemies of civil rights. What you're watching instead is a power grab that's been coordinated by the most ruthless and cynical figures in American politics.<br><br> They don't want you to know what they're doing, they're not honorable enough to state their intentions. They're not like you at all. </blockquote><p>Ah, there's the Radio Rwanda talk we know and loathe! Get your machetes sharpened!</p><p>Carlson goes on farting out similar gaslighting, describing how the Left is full of professional liars and manipulators who "accuse you of the crimes they themselves have committed" and seek to win arguments not by the sweet light of reason, but by domination: </p><blockquote> Arguing with them is pointless because they're nihilists, they don't believe in the existence of truth or the fixed meaning of words. They care only about power.</blockquote><p>Says the man who has never made a good faith argument in his Fox News career, and who has been known to use <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/tucker-carlson-tammy-duckworth" target="_blank">deceptive editing</a> now and again. Also, nihilists? Fuck me! </p><p>Speaking of manipulative and cynical, Carlson then confessed that it's "painful to say this, it hurts to admit there are people in our country who are like this, but there are, and they have more power than ever." But he <em>has </em>to. Even though it just tears him up to say it, he has little other choice than to tell you the Truth: Barack Obama is a cynical monster who'd use a funeral just to make cheap political points, which of course is why Carlson cynically slammed Obama's eulogy to make his own cheap political points.</p><blockquote>"Barack Obama showed up at Congressman John Lewis's funeral today. [<em>Yep, the former president just "showed up" and delivered the eulogy. Who let him in, one wonders — Dok</em>] Obama claimed he was there to eulogize his own friend but that's not true and that's not what he did. Instead Obama gave a divisive and deeply dishonest campaign speech in church.</blockquote><p>Carlson then played an extensive, seconds-long clip of Obama calling for an end to partisan gerrymandering — see, he even said "partisan!" — and getting rid of the filibuster to do it if need be. Well! Carlson was aghast! And how dare Barack Obama try to sound Black, which he clearly isn't, since he's actually from the foreign land of Hawaii. </p><blockquote>It's hard to believe that clip is real, but it is, down to the cloying fake accent, Mr. Hawaii guy. But take three steps back — imagine if some greasy politician showed up at your loved one's funeral and started throwing around stupid partisan talking points about Senate procedure. Can you imagine that? You would be shocked if that happened. You'd probably walk out. </blockquote><p>Yeah, how crazy it was to talk about expanding voting rights at the funeral of a guy whose fight for voting rights lasted more than 55 years, and who got his skull cracked while marching for voting rights in Selma, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The nerve of that crazy Obama. Carlson continued: </p><blockquote>Desecrating a funeral with campaign slogans? What kind of person would do that? But Democrats in the audience didn't seem offended, they didn't blink, they cheered. It all seemed normal to them and why wouldn't it? Political power is their religion. It's not out of place in a church, it's what they worship. People who will politicize a funeral will do anything and they're trying to.</blockquote><p>See? Democrats are completely abnormal. They're not like you. They're not like you at all. And while the delusional power-hungry mob in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church may have thought they heard Barack Obama talking about perfecting the ideals of America by making sure all Americans can participate and shape that democracy, Carlson knew it was all a sham, about seizing power through the sleaziest means possible: citizens speaking up and voting. The horror.</p><p>Mind you, John Lewis was even more horrifyingly partisan than even Obama, because before his death, he'd arranged to have the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfq4hkT1UYAybSRdkhrxqAwvrIwLp5gnLhLTPQQjdczuBQGYmP-1vWIKNmasEy1D3dRMNENPVnYs1O-dJlHh4nTRi08NzDkY4ZIi4xpMW-AW9v1ZvDAfVn-GO3KzTkdes6leSy71fXaWa8W_bdhScrdAZ1sNAyIwHRrH8MwqbGFe9_3MAvnqtyQ8AnGkpTIXWCrPLqCBxhOduZbBm66wA-X-5RWz27jsfLovtbM10UUQSaOSs5tWUs69pcOccVNbL8KnMiecn5hrYQDQ94PRHlcrTc-3MkNYnB6Zsoj8c" target="_blank">run an op-ed</a> the day of his funeral, in which Lewis implores us to "redeem the soul of our nation" through political action. What sort of monster would use his own funeral to make a political statement? Only someone who worships power — <em>from beyond the grave.</em> </p><p>Disgusted by Obama's horrifying desecration of a funeral with hyper-partisan political slogans (<em>"this country is a constant work in progress"</em> and <em>"a more perfect union"</em>), Carlson went on to explain, in the calmest, most nonpartisan way possible, what that funeral was really all about:</p><blockquote>Democrats are working systematically to dismantle the core institutions of American life. Beginning with the family and with faith. They're subverting the core system in our government, the justice system. </blockquote><p>Probably through appointing an attorney general who's a yes-man for the president and then going after his political enemies while helping out his cronies. </p><blockquote>They're nullifying laws, burning police stations, attacking courthouses, working to eliminate the legal equality of American citizens, the foundation of it all. </blockquote><p>Hello, Tucker, have you met Stephen Miller, the greatest twister of laws ever? Or his boss, who thinks he can change laws without Congress? But yeah, a police precinct did get torched during rioting in Minneapolis, so that's far worse than the wholesale elimination of a functional federal government during a pandemic. </p><p>Also, thank goodness Carlson warned us about cynical manipulators who "accuse you of the crimes they themselves have committed," because look at this shit:</p><blockquote>They've systematically repurposed federal law enforcement agencies as political weapons. They have imprisoned their political opponents. Their leaders have called for making all these changes permanent by packing the Supreme Court, packing the United States Senate, packing the electorate itself by importing tens of millions of new voters.</blockquote><p>Oh, thank goodness, we finally got the Brown Hordes of Mexicans Who Have Too Many Babies in there. Wouldn't want to forget them. </p><p>Mind you, Carlson knows his viewers will understand that the politicized federal law enforcement agency he's talking about is the supposedly liberal FBI, not the actual head-busting soldiercops in Portland. The "imprisoned political enemies" are felons like Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, who were prosecuted by Donald Trump's own Justice Department — not demonstrators scooped up off the streets by unidentified federal agents, and certainly not brown children stolen from their parents and put in cages. And oh dear, the court packing, which has nothing to do with cramming Federalist Society judges onto the federal courts, or Mitch McConnell refusing to let Merrick Garland have a hearing. </p><p>In conclusion, fuck Tucker Carlson, the greasiest political hack ever, and as a palate cleanser, let's once more enjoy John Lewis dancing like nobody's watching.</p>
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Immigrants
Trump Could Probably Kill DACA Legally But It’s Just More Fun The Other Way
John Roberts tried to make it easy for him.
July 30, 2020 10:59 AM
Donald Trump experienced a minor inconvenience in his evil scheme to screw over Dreamers when the Supreme Court ruled against his administration's “arbitrary and capricious" attempt to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama executive order that gave some 700,000 people the chance to live and work here legally. It seemed fair because the Dreamers had committed no crime themselves, unlike most of Trump's 2016 campaign team.
The Supreme Court never actually said Trump couldn't go forth and multiply evil. Chief Justice John Roberts made clear in his opinion that Trump's gaggle of ghouls just needed to come up with a legally sound explanation other than “Mexicans bad. Trump smash!"
Trump promised to resubmit his DACA exam after Professor Roberts gave him an extension. It was the easiest community college test possible but Trump's team of unrivaled incompetence still failed.
<p>Immigration lawyer Lily Axelrod has a great thread on Twitter about how the Trump administration is in "open defiance of the Supreme Court and several federal courts." </p><div id="a6391" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ef7a6133b1da6e383b36d32d49ef4e7a"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1288181766809935873" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">BREAKING / thread: Trump & DHS are now in open defiance of the Supreme Court and several federal courts. Despite be… https://t.co/ccuUTjjauq</div> — Lily S. Axelrod (@Lily S. Axelrod)<a href="https://twitter.com/LilySAxelrod/statuses/1288181766809935873">1595961441.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Trump was given an evil cheat sheet, but instead he's permitting only one-year DACA renewals instead of the current two as well as rejecting all new applications, which he can't do because it's against the law. I mean no one's really bothering to stop him when he breaks the law, especially not Senate Republicans, but this is over the top.</p><p>Chad Wolf, currently understudying the role of Department of Homeland Security secretary, confessed that the DHS had <a href="https://twitter.com/cdechalus/status/1288191120657219584?s=20" target="_blank">deliberately delayed processing new DACA applications and requests for advanced parole.</a> He even put it in writing and everything.</p><p>Wolf declared in a memo fitting his unwarranted arrogance that he is hereby "rescinding the 2017 and 2018 memoranda, and making certain immediate changes to the DACA policy to facilitate" what he laughingly described as his "thorough consideration of how to address DACA in light of the Supreme Court's decision." </p><p>Those “immediate changes" defy federal law, which isn't whatever Trump says it is at the moment. Trump somehow thinks he can end the DACA policy pending his administration's “full consideration" of what to do about the policy, which he wanted <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/end-daca-well-trump-didnt-know-you-were-going-to-be-mad-about-it" target="_blank">to end in the first place.</a> That was the whole point. </p><div id="a3509" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8f47b6010ec1ca52d0f5d49e5eb6c0bc"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1288191120657219584" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Worth noting in the memo: @DHS_Wolf admits that since the Supreme Court decision in June, DHS has purposefully dela… https://t.co/K8swEQDz1o</div> — Camila DeChalus (@Camila DeChalus)<a href="https://twitter.com/cdechalus/statuses/1288191120657219584">1595963671.0</a></blockquote></div><blockquote><strong>WOLF</strong>: I have concluded that the DACA policy, at a minimum, presents serious policy concerns that may warrant its full rescission.</blockquote><p>Nobody cares what you think, Mr. Ain't Been Confirmed To Shit. Seriously, the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/daca" target="_blank">Supreme Court said</a> as much in its decision:</p><blockquote>We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies. The wisdom of those decisions is none of our concern. We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.</blockquote><p>Wolf further stated in his memo that "At the same time, I have concluded that fully rescinding the policy would be a significant administration decision that warrants additional careful consideration."<br></p><p>The Supreme Court already “concluded" for these dummies that they didn't comply with the procedural requirements. They just need to find a superficially non-racist reason for rescinding DACA that won't embarrass Chief Justice Roberts at cocktail parties. This is starting to feel like when The Simpsons are in witness protection and the feds can't get Homer to remember his new last name is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkaDSiPrFGs" target="_blank">“Thompson."</a></p><p>The president couldn't even offer reporters Tuesday a coherent vision for what would happen to Dreamers if he succeeds in axing the program. He also seems to think that DACA is an actual person or maybe a sentient computer.</p><blockquote><strong>TRUMP: </strong>We are going to <strong>make DACA happy</strong> and the DACA people and representatives happy, and we're also going to end up with a fantastic merit-based immigration system.</blockquote><p>We all know when Trump says “merit-based immigration," he means <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trumps-aryan-homeland-security-idiot-kirstjen-nielsen-does-not-remember-ok" target="_blank">white people from Norway</a> and whatever someone like <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43256318" target="_blank">Einstein visa holder Melania Trump</a> has to offer. </p><p>DACA is overwhelmingly popular. Even a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/17/americans-broadly-support-legal-status-for-immigrants-brought-to-the-u-s-illegally-as-children/" target="_blank">majority of Republican</a>s support permanent legal status to immigrants who entered the United States illegally when they were children. Conservatives might argue that this status should come from congressional legislation and not executive action, but Trump and the GOP have made no good-faith effort to pass an immigration bill that would achieve what DACA already does.</p><p>Trump also can't keep his racist mouth closed long enough to hide the fact that he doesn't care about “executive overreach." That concern is laughable on its face when you consider how Trump has governed. The courts won't consider his whims in a vacuum.</p><p>Meanwhile, 700,000 Americans remain in limbo.</p><p>[<a href="https://twitter.com/LilySAxelrod/status/1288183399727890433?s=20" target="_blank">Twitter</a>/ <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/daca-renewals-trump-dreamers-384504" target="_blank">Politico</a>]</p><p><em>Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em><br></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and entirely supported entirely by reader donations. That's you! 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White Nonsense
Texas Asshole Wants To Share Good News About ‘Mostly Elderly & Hispanics’ Dying From COVID-19
Vance Ginn is one of the worst people in a state with at least one Ted Cruz.
July 29, 2020 03:50 PM
The Texas Department of State Health Services released more comprehensive data about the state's COVID-19 deaths, and it's depressing and shameful. Before Monday, there were significant gaps in the state's racial and ethnic breakdowns of deaths, but now we know that Hispanic residents are disproportionate victims of COVID-19. They are 40 percent of the population but make up 47 percent of total deaths.
This is terrible news — unless you're a racist monster like Vance Ginn, who sees nothing but upsides. The chief economist for the Texas Public Policy Foundation tweeted this data with a twisted joie de vivre you don't see often see among the human soul having.
<p>I don't know how often we have to tell these dummies that opening schools would potentially result in more kids dying, as well as the “vulnerable" people Ginn pretends to give a damn about. (Also: I think Hispanic people also have kids.) Gov. Greg Abbott finally mandated on <strong>July 2</strong> that Texans in most counties wear masks, like he'd just discovered science. Ginn wants to ditch that basic preventative measure and sends kids back to school because apparently not enough people have died. </p><p>This sociopath thinks he's making such a great point that he follows up his tweet with a Prince Harry mic drop gif. How dare he bring <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/harry-meghan-smart-enough-not-to-rely-on-trump-to-keep-them-alive" target="_blank">Meghan Markle's</a> bae into this! The “boom" comes from an adorable 2016 spot promoting the Invictus Games. Harry and the freaking Queen of England share a playful exchange with our last real president and first lady, Barack and Michelle Obama.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>The Invictus Games are an international adaptive sports competition Prince Harry launched in 2014 for wounded service people and veterans. It's not about owning the libs or abandoning the sick to their fates. </p><p>Ginn apologized for the gif <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/ted-yohos-apology-if-jesus-were-alive-today-hed-also-call-aoc-a-b-h" target="_blank">like a white man who never apologizes</a> for shit. He only conceded that his gif was “perceived as insensitive," rather than admitting that it was. He accuses others of “bad faith" for taking his gloating tweet “out of context."</p><blockquote><strong>GINN: </strong>What we're really focused in on is, "How can we best make sure that Texans are taken care of during this time?"</blockquote><p>It doesn't seem as if Ginn is “really focused" on taking care of <em>all </em>Texans when he can't be bothered to wear a damn mask. It's the absolute least someone can do during this pandemic. It's not like you lose a kidney or random body organ every time you put one on. Conservatives keep acting like COVID-19 masks are the same as the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbg2w_cExA" target="_blank">creepy voodoo ones</a> from <em>The Twilight Zone</em> that disfigure you for life. Besides which, Ginn's tweet says Texas's peak was all of two weeks ago, by their accounting. (This projection <a href="https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/texas" target="_blank">shows no such thing.)</a> Can he literally not remember back to April, when there was another "peak" so that obviously meant COVID-19 was over and done? They can't wear masks for <em>four</em> weeks? Or <em>three?</em></p><div id="573bf" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ce992ccf88b832685e51daa69d81a959"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1288177000478322688" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@VanceGinn @TexasDSHS This is my grandfather Albert. He was an Hispanic citizen of the U.S. & passed from #Covid. H… https://t.co/cmmrrvBD2Q</div> — Jason Villalba (@Jason Villalba)<a href="https://twitter.com/JasonVillalba/statuses/1288177000478322688">1595960304.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Ginn later removed the tweet and wrote this garbage: "I believe strongly based on my deep faith that every life is precious. My intent was to highlight the <strong>positive development </strong>of more data available to make better policy decisions and help the vulnerable."</p><p>He'll forgive us if we're skeptical of his interest in helping the vulnerable. His original tweet, where he used words that are in English, said “target the vulnerable." Target is not a synonym for “help," and “check those from Mexico" doesn't sound like a wellness check.</p><p>According to data from the Texas Education Agency, almost 53 percent of public school students were Hispanic in 2018 and 2019. Hispanic people are more <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/05/a-record-64-million-americans-live-in-multigenerational-households/" target="_blank">likely than white people</a> to live in multigenerational households. It's not entirely an economic issue, either. Hispanics are <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/hispanics-positive-experience-caring-elderly-poll-says" target="_blank">reportedly more likely to have a positive experience</a> caring for an elderly relative. (Only three percent of Fox News's audience is Hispanic. Not saying there's a direct connection. Just putting that out there.)</p><p>Hispanics are also <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2019/02/03/hispanics-are-propping-up-texas-economy-workforce-as-shrinking-white-population-ages-experts-say/" target="_blank">the backbone of the Texas economy,</a> especially as the white population shrinks. They are on the front lines of this pandemic, <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/in-depth/2020/01/14/357177/houston-restaurants-turn-to-immigrants-amidst-worker-shortage/" target="_blank">working in the restaurants</a> and businesses that conservatives like Ginn want open so they can pretend life is normal.</p><p>But all that really matters is that Hispanic Texans are human beings and don't deserve for some crawling piece of slime to dismiss their suffering. 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Why Honor Memory Of John Lewis When You Can Frolic At Klan Amusement Park?
Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes is almost comically racist.
July 29, 2020 09:24 AM
There's a pleasing fantasy that racism will finally end when the last withered segregation-era bigot breathes his last, but Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes is proof that racism's a renewable resource.
Last weekend, the body of American hero and genuine patriot John Lewis returned to Alabama, the place of his birth and where his life could've ended on a bridge in Selma. Like a common Donald Trump, Dismukes couldn't be bothered to pay his respects. He was otherwise engaged in the land of cotton at Fort Dixie, which is not an actual military base so Trump doesn't have to worry about the woke mob renaming it after Al Sharpton.
Kyle Whitmire, a columnist for the Alabama Media Group, wrote about Dismuke's Lost Cause weekend. It's more absurdly racist than you could imagine.
While many Alabamians honored the life and legacy of John Lewis today, state Rep. Will Dismukes celebrated the foun… https://t.co/YR2cpRlhqC— Kyle Whitmire (@Kyle Whitmire)1595803537.0
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Where to even start? Fort Dixie belongs to Butch and <del>Sundance</del> Pat Godwin, and there's no law against calling them Confederate sympathizers. They're proud of this shit, especially Pat Godwin, who's described the majority Black Selma as "Zimbabwe on de Alabamy." She considers the 1965 voting rights march a debauched "Mother of all Orgies." I don't mean to kink shame — everyone's free to do their thing — but white racist cops beating Black folks with clubs is my least favorite kind of orgy.
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Godwin has fought against the Alabama Historical Commission even acknowledging the Selma march, and that's strange because with all the Confederate iconography on display at Fort Dixie, you'd think she'd be big on preserving history. She's also described herself in emails as a "Wizardess." Cate Blanchett could really do something with this character.
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Every year, Godwin throws a birthday bash for Nathan Bedford Forrest, who is 200 years old and dead. He was also racist as fuck, even for the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/tom-cotton-slave-owning-founders-believed-slavery-was-necessary-evil-so-checkmate-1619-project" target="_blank">"necessary evil"</a> days of yore. He led a massacre of hundreds of Black US soldiers, committing what we'd consider today <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/28/civil-war-massacre-that-left-nearly-black-soldiers-murdered/" target="_blank">war crimes. </a></p><div id="380c5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1c6e53913ceaff7908112cc8b2b4fe4e"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1287943016431456256" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">On the day Alabamians, and citizens around the globe, honored Civil Rights Icon John Lewis, State Representative Wi… https://t.co/Y8I8FGuMqU</div> — AL House Democrats (@AL House Democrats)<a href="https://twitter.com/ALHouseDems/statuses/1287943016431456256">1595904518.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Forrest was a Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan and although he later resigned, you got the idea it was because of a disagreement over the length of the white hoods and not any meaningful racial epiphany.<br></p><blockquote>
<strong>WHITMIRE:</strong> At the event according to announcements, her organization, Friends of Forrest, gives away a small cast bust of the KKK founder as a door prize and has offered, among other food options, a "<a href="http://shnv.blogspot.com/2016/06/ole-bedfords-havin-another-party.html?m=1" target="_blank">Pickaninny Freeze Watermelon Stand</a>."
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I had to Google that last thing to understand how racist it was.
</blockquote><p>I didn't have to Google “pickaninny," a racist term for a Black child, because I'd heard the term more than once growing up in 1980s South Carolina. Regardless, <a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-original-picaninny-freeze-ice-439295191" target="_blank">here's the "freeze."</a></p><p>So, was this a Klan rally? They're celebrating a Klan leader. Multiple Confederate flags are plastered everywhere. And there are the needlessly racist treats. It seems to have a Klan rally shape.</p><p>The irony is compelling: Forrest was an early member of a terrorist group that violently suppressed the vote of Black people in the aftermath of the Civil War. John Lewis peacefully protested for the reinstatement of those voting rights. Dismukes chose to honor Forrest.</p><p>Dismukes claimed in a now-deleted Facebook post that his visit to Fort Dixie wasn't intended to disrespect Lewis. He wasn't even<em> thinking </em>about Lewis, and that's the whole problem. Lewis is a major part of the Southern heritage Dismukes claims to honor. He continued to miss the point during an interview with local media.</p><strong></strong><blockquote><strong>DISMUKES: </strong>I guess, with the <strong>anti-Southern sentiment</strong> and all, and the things that we have going on in the world today, there's a lot of people that are seeming to be more and more offended, We live in a time where we literally are going through cancel culture from all different areas and people are even more sensitive on different issues and different subjects. This was just one of those times that it didn't quite go the way I expected, and I never intended to bring hurt to anyone, especially my own family with everything that's been said.</blockquote><p>Opposition to racism isn't “anti-Southern sentiment." The Klan doesn't own the South. The Confederacy didn't just lose a war against the Northern states. It lost the first in a long series of battles against the Black people who had just as much a claim to the South as any white person. Dismukes, the Godwins, and everyone enjoying a nice cold racist snack at Fort Dixie deliberately embrace the soldiers who fought and died for white supremacy. Decent people of all races and from all parts of the country chose instead to honor a leader on the right side of this ongoing war. </p><div id="0c7c6" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="19d7933a48adf01dd8740c3af6d718f2"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1287848307973390336" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">It is important to note, however, that I and many other members of the House devoted our weekend toward honoring an… https://t.co/bgWONTEhTx</div> — Speaker Mac McCutcheon (@Speaker Mac McCutcheon)<a href="https://twitter.com/MacDistrict25/statuses/1287848307973390336">1595881938.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Alabama's Democratic Party has pushed for Dismuke to resign over his previous racist shenanigans, and this latest one is no exception. However, Dismuke's weekend Klanbake managed to embarrass state Republicans, including Alabama House Majority Whip Danny Garrett and House Speaker Mac McCutcheon.<br></p><blockquote><strong>GARRETT: </strong>I cannot fathom why anyone in 2020 celebrates the birthday of the 1st KKK Grand Wizard. And while the body of a civil rights icon beaten by the Klan lies at state Capitol being honored by GOP/Dem leaders from all over the state. This mentality does not rep my party or my faith.</blockquote><p>Dismukes turned 30 in February. He's just a few months older than "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" TV series. The first presidential election when he could vote was 2008, but I doubt he cast a ballot for Barack Obama. I also think he knows his constituency and is secure in his position. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/03/-the-past-isnt-dead-it-isnt-even-past/218789/" target="_blank">Our racist past isn't yet history. It's not even past.</a></p><p>
[<a href="https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/meet-alabamas-latest-lost-cause-will-dismukes.html" target="_blank">AL.com</a> / <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/alabama-republican-lewis-kkk/" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>]<br>
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