Sunny, many thanks for posting up that educational video clip.

Wasn’t George Wallace a Democrat? And as for Nixon’s southern strategy, that played out exactly as predicted. Obama’s election shows that the most racist voters (i.e. most likely to vote on racial lines) are non-white. Is Sunny trying to stir up racial hatred for whites – as per usual?

Is Sunny trying to stir up racial hatred for whites – as per usual?

Well done for reinforcing the exact pont that Rachel Maddow is making.

Three minutes in I am astonished. She cuts immediately from George Wallace advocating racial segregation in the 1960s to Jesse Helms opposing positive discrimination in the 1990s and everyone is supposed to think there is no distinction between the two?

It’s also just factually false to deny that racial discrimination, whatever its intentions, is zero-sum. By definition if someone gets a job because of their racial background the person who would otherwise have been appointed loses out.

Not only disgraceful but intellectually pathetic.

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You do realise that the situation of “best qualified white man passed over in favour of no-where near as good black man” never ever happened, right? Besides if Jesse Helms opposed it then it must have been a fantastic idea which we can’t get enough of.

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Hah! No. You really haven’t a clue how it works.

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The only thing disgraceful and intellectually pathetic round here is your commenting.

Rachel Maddow must have been doing something right, because the next evening, Bill O’Reilly, “star” of Fox News Channel (fair and balanced my arse) had a go at her in the “Talking Points Memo” part of “The O’Reilly Factor”.

Bill-O’s catch all was that Fox had better ratings than MSNBC – the same line that Roger Ailes peddled on a Meet The Press recently where he was confronted by Arianna Huffington over the Fox approach.

I’ve covered it here:

http://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-fox-5.html

Watchers of things Stateside might be interested to know that The Daily Show is back from a break this week – I suspect that Jon Stewart will have something to say. More4 starting Tuesday 2030 hours, then on 4OD. Be there!

You do realise that the situation of “best qualified white man passed over in favour of no-where near as good black man” never ever happened, right?

Every time I see Skip gates on TV I begin listing the long roll of members of my own extended family that would make better literary critics/ Eng Lit professors than Skip.

But then I remember that Harvard created a special department for Eng Lit written by people with Black skins. And that’s where Skip works.

But hang on a minute…….. if segregation is anathema at the lunch counter or on the bus, how come its okay to segregate novelists and the literature faculty?

Hmm. A show about Republican Not-Racism provokes a series of Toryban Fundamentalist rebuttals attacking efforts to promote racial equality.

Sunny’s doing something right then.

Spot on Yurrzem! These posts highlight some pretty disgusting elements both in the US and right here.