Jezebel’s Megan wrote an amazing article
Jezebel.com is one of my favorite blogs to read. Between Jezebel and Huffington Post I have LOTS to read. This piece that I’m posting is written by Megan, one of the Jezebel editors. Please, enjoy and consider the words carefully. Also, if it resonates with you, please repost and spread around.
Dear McCainiacs: Racism Should Not Be An Accepted American Attribute
Here’s an excerpt from the article. Really, though, please read the whole thing.
And, what’s even more horrifying, that they think they can openly say racist shit because being at a Republican rally — the Republican party, notably, being the party responsible for the aforementioned Emancipation Proclamation and 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments — means that they are among “their” kind. And, given that neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin — the new heirs to the leadership of the party of motherfucking Lincoln — could take a minute, a second, to chide a supporter and say, “That language has no place in this party,” they might be right. This is what Nixon wrought on this country and his party, this is what Rovian politics brings. There’s no courage in ignoring who your supporters are. There’s no honor in taking their votes if you can’t take a minute to chide them for their racism. There would be honor and there would be courage in saying, “If you are voting for us because Obama is black, or because you think he is Muslim, we don’t want your votes. Vote for us on the issues, or don’t vote for us at all.” But John McCain and Sarah Palin will take their support and their attendance at rallies with a wink and a well-coiffed nod and everyone will pretend that they didn’t hear what was said and the racists will think they have someone who agrees with them in the White House and the rest of us will march happily on by like little lemmings and believe, as we want to believe, that they don’t.
