"It's time the GOP have their noses soundly rubbed into the shit Cliven Bundy has left on the floor" [View all]

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***against this backdrop:

" the inauguration of President Barack Obama was hailed as a turning point in US race relations. The country was said to be entering a new era of post-racial politics, on the path to a future of greater diversity and tolerance. But while crowds flocked to Washington to witness the swearing in, others were refusing to join the party. Racially motivated threats against Obama rose to new heights in the first months of his presidency, with the US seeing nine high-profile race killings in 2009. Meanwhile white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups claim their membership is growing and that visits to their websites are increasing. Filmmakers Rick Rowley and Jacquie Soohen went inside the white nationalist movement to investigate."
http://blip.tv/...

http://blip.tv/visionontv/people-power-white-power-usa-3076407

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FRI APR 25, 2014 AT 10:13 PM PDT
***The Cliven Bundy Story is NOT Over
by Seahawk

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I am of the opinion any mediate who lets the GOP off the hook for this affair is doing nothing more than giving them cover to harbor the next Cliven Bundy and I begin to question what lies within their hearts.

This is the not epilogue, this is the preface. It's high time the GOP was shamed into coming back into the fold of rational - reasonable action. Stop voting to kill Obamacare, stop blocking jobs bills, stop ignoring climate change, stop trying to suppress the vote.

It's time the GOP have their noses soundly rubbed into the shit Cliven Bundy has left on the living room floor of our nation. Allowing the GOP to squirm away without a full throated mea culpa do nothing but enable the next Bundy, the next George Zimmerman, the next Oklahoma City bomber.

I am not at all comfortable with letting the GOP off the hook because I know they have not learned their lesson.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/26/1294777/-The-Cliven-Bundy-Story-is-NOT-Over

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from -Charles M. Blow:

The legacy of slavery must be liberated from political commentary.

Casual, careless and incorrect references to slavery, much like blithe references to Nazi Germany, do violence to the memory of those who endured it, or were lost to it, and to their descendants.

There is no modern-day comparison in this country to the horrors of slavery.

None!
Leave it alone.

Remember, honor and respect.
That’s all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/opinion/blow-a-ranchers-romantic-revisionism.html?_r=1