Did White People "Create A Threatening And Hostile Environment” When Singing Of Hanging A "Nigger"?

While keeping blacks from an education, a good time is always had by all

According to the readers over at Althouse, after 400 years of white-on-black murder, whites should still be able to sing of killing me - without me feeling threatened - because,...there's another political ideology:

"Good for the fraternity, for having the song. 

It's an up-yours to the leftist agenda. 

We need more of that."

"Strange Fruit" are STILL only fruits, am I right?

And because whites right now are confused,...as to what kind of threat they pose:

"I know the song ultimately became public, but it done in private. How does that create a hostile and threatening environment?"

The more the merrier!

And because - something these proponents of "colorblindness" have denied until now - they've always been this way:

"So now it's against the law to be racist? What's happened to this country?"

An early attempt to stop twerking from sweeping the nation

Then there's those who honestly believe lynching me is no big deal:

"I want to live in a world where we can tolerate people saying things we don't like, and the meaning of 'threatening' isn't mangled beyond recognition."

Althouse's home movies weren't telling the whole story of her childhood

But, if I was white - or even Ann Althouse herself - I simply would've settled for saying sick serenades aren't a problem because, in America, whites killing blacks has always been "fun for the whole family,..."

How Do Whites Cover Up The Whole Town Of Ferguson Being Racist & Financially Exploitive Of Blacks? They Make "Hands Up! Don't Shoot!" Into Their Biggest Issue

Fulfilling blacks every dream of white people!

Yes, I've been peeking at Althouse again, because - if there's a racist "spin" to be had - you know she'll be promoting it for cash, too,...

ADDED - since a law professor thinks "Hands Up! Don't Shoot!" is SO where the really important discussion is now:

TMR is, you can be sure, that whites who decide to "help" black people are usually doing something we don't like with the rest of their time,...

Jon Stewart Reminds Us Few Remark When The Goose That Layed The Golden Eggs Was Merely Taking A Shit

I can think of lots of people - especially two in Wisconsin - who should be apologizing,...

1st Black President Requests Media Fact-Check Critics

The ultimate in epic take-downs,....

Weird: The DOJ Report On Ferguson And The Case For Reparations (By Ta-Nehisi Coates) Tell The Same Story

There's a reason these people are smiling

Here's Eric Holder's Department of Justice report on the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department.

And here's The Case For Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Get ready to pay us back our money,...

Jay Smooth Shows Whites Repeat Same Old Racism

Red State: Nothing Unique About Ferguson's Racism

But they'll only believe it if a white guy says it. The black guy who's been saying it for years? 

He's crazy,...

White People: Working Racist Strategies Since Slavery

Today's "colorblind" patriots - just doing what they think is right - by whites

"When black people break the law or flout social norms in the United States, the public conversation immediately turns to the broader concept of blackness itself,...What is wrong, we ask, with African Americans? 

When white people misbehave, however, they rarely represent more than themselves, even when they're members of an organization like, say, SAE,...They are routinely defended with excuses of inebriation, misspeaking, and unintentional bigotry. Even then, being white often means doing wrong without bringing your entire race into it,...This is what privilege is: to speak and act only for yourself, and only when you feel like it."

Last Week Tonight On NCAA Basketball: It's Slavery,...

Red State Makes Conservatives Look Pro-Government

Somehow, tyranny can't be more obvious - unless it's pointed at blacks

"Anyone who can read the actual [DOJ] report itself and be comfortable with the fact that citizens of an American city live under such a regime is frankly not someone who is ideologically aligned with me in any meaningful way."

- Leon H. Wolf, Red State

Like The Song Said: Whites "Teach Your Children Well"

Whites have insisted it's not true - they're innocent - long past the point of believability. But the worst part is, they not only think those of us who are their racism's targets will buy it, but - white supremacy in action - they've made us endure it until whites make up their twisted, coddled, sheltered, and completely unbelievable minds.

It's blacks who have been lying?

Gee, thanks, white people,...

Andy Levy: A Conservative Who Understands Racism

There they are, a bunch of white people - knowing they're being heard but still making light of a very serious topic to blacks - and then, BOOM, they discover an interloper in the midst of their racism (as well as a flaw in their conception of democracy) and, oh my God, what in the world's going to happen to America now? Stay tuned,...

Emptying The Ocean With A Paper Cup: That's The Job

“The problems may have been there, but they were new to me. A lot of this just destroyed me. We want our people back. We want everybody to come back and be a part of it. We would like to change. We want to improve, to be able to help what other people feel is the problem, because we didn’t see it.”

- Mike Brandon, 45, a Ferguson contractor whose suffered as protests stretched on over the months

"In the city of 21,000, there are literally 16,000 with outstanding warrants out for their arrests. That means that three out of every four Ferguson residents is a wanted fugitive. There’s something very wrong with that,..."

All supported by American law, and it's judicial system, we might add: every bit of it perfectly legal, as the plunder of blacks has always been in this "land of the free."

Knowing our fellow citizens will kill us, before securing our rights, is a discomforting feeling. That they think their murderous framing is good, and normal, is unnerving. That they'd rather fight over it, merely because they can, says all any black history student needs to know about the "content" of white America's "character" - a much discussed topic - after 400 years. Their willing betrayal is true, and still as based in their own ignorance as ever, reason be damned. No one can reason with the violently insane:

What’s hard is reforming the whole country, the whole culture, the whole world. What’s hard is looking at the systems that cause racism in your own workplace, your own community, in yourself. Because that’s a fight that doesn’t end with a “return to normalcy,” which usually just means people learning not to let their racism get caught on video. That’s a fight that requires we acknowledge that none of us in our lifetimes have ever seen “normal,” that we shouldn’t settle for a version of “normal” that’s anything less than “the normalcy that recognizes the dignity and worth of all of God’s children.” 

I worry that the ebb and flow of social change isn’t determined by the resistance of the reactionaries–that revolution doesn’t slow, stall or even reverse because the Right finds new reservoirs of strength. It happens because the revolutionaries get fatigued. We want to declare an easy victory, get some racists fired and go home. Progressives had a huge rowdy party the night we fired the GOP from the White House in 2008 and then, seemingly, spent the next four years in bed. 

What’s happening in Ferguson is great. It’s not over. The outcry on college campuses against SAE because of the Oklahoma University video is great. It’s not over. 

Getting racists fired is always satisfying. It’s never enough.

So you yell loud, you yell often, and you never change focus:

Reparations now. Reparations tomorrow. Reparations forever,...

Awwww: Ferguson's Mayor Wants To "Play The Victim"

Ferguson's near St. Louis, which is located in Missouri: all parts of these United States

Some white somebody needs to tell Ferguson Mayor James Knowles to hush up, or else he'll ruin this deal for some other white somebodies:

"We're the only ones being held accountable and I don't know why that is,..."

TMR doesn't know either, Mayor, but I betcha - the longer you keep talkin' - the less likely THAT will stay the same,...

Why Blacks Have White "Friends" Against Reparations

Hannity's not a racist: he just defends their positions and stands in the way of redress

"Point of white supremacy is not to be mean to black people, it's to take their stuff. It is not about bad manners. It's about plunder."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

Whites can't conceive of justice for blacks - because they can't imagine who they'll be without their crimes,...

You Got Nowhere To Run To, Baby, Nowhere To Hide

This is about how honest whites are on race.

The gap - between what white people can't admit about America and what they won't admit - isn't very wide:

"If the shooting of Michael Brown had taken place about 500 yards to the southeast, he would have died not in Ferguson, Mo., but in the neighboring city of Jennings. The court system there, which is overseen by a white judge but has almost exclusively black defendants, routinely sends people to jail for failure to pay minor traffic fines, a new lawsuit alleges. 

Had the shooting occurred three and a half miles to the north, the world’s attention might have turned to the city of Florissant, where in 2013, the police stopped black motorists at a rate nearly three times their share of the population. Less than four miles to the northwest, in Calverton Park, court fines and fees accounted for over 40 percent of the city’s general operating revenue last year,..."

So what's the take-away?

Blacks live in a racist COUNTRY. 

And expecting it's biggest practitioners to admit it is foolish,...

I've Just About Had Enough Of Having Enough Racism

Reading white racist's vomit-inducing rationalizations of this country's racism, as well as their own, is getting to be too much for me.

I guess I had a limit after all,...

When Whites Are Playing The Victim They ARE Playing

Watch for white's Alzheimer's cases to shoot through the roof

As culture continues to trump politics, the "colorblind" whites are very upset they're losing the ability to discriminate against blacks anymore.

TMR is they'll get over it,...

Ignoring Everything (But What Makes Whites "Happy")

One cop was racist. The town that cop worked for? Full of Great Americans.

How the white gaze "works" is amazing:

"In the summer of 2012, a 32-year-old African-American man sat in his car cooling off after playing basketball in a Ferguson public park. An officer pulled up behind the man’s car... and demanded the man’s Social Security number and identification. Without any cause, the officer accused the man of being a pedophile, referring to the presence of children in the park, and ordered the man out of his car for a pat-down, although the officer had no reason to believe the man was armed. The officer also asked to search the man’s car.

The man objected, citing his constitutional rights. In response, the officer arrested the man, reportedly at gunpoint, charging him with eight violations of Ferguson’s municipal code. One charge, Making a False Declaration, was for initially providing the short form of his first name (e.g., “Mike” instead of “Michael”), and an address which, although legitimate, was different from the one on his driver’s license. Another charge was for not wearing a seat belt, even though he was seated in a parked car. The officer also charged the man both with having an expired operator’s license, and with having no operator’s license in his possession."

Our entire concept of law enforcement is based on slave catching, but to whites, that's no big deal.

Whites are now desperately focussed like a lazer on Darren Wilson's innocence, ignoring the fact blacks assumed Wilson was guilty because our experience says (as the DOJ found) the entire department's racist - something whites now just as desperately don't want to talk about, because it would have to mean the adjoining towns are racist, too. Which probably means a good portion of America, itself, still is as well. Or does anyone think this professional, city-wide, racist operation existed in a vacuum?

I'm sure, with white kids getting booted off fraternities for not keeping the family secret "secret," the white gaze will reveal just that to the rest of the whites - and no one else - as well,....

Don't Stand So Close 2 Me: Wisconsin & It's Racist Past

After all of Wisconsin's open flirtation with it's racism, the strain had to be excrutiating,...

"I have a dream, too, that one day every darn one of you is going to pay. ... I wonder what kind of people you are. You never get upset about anything."

- Clara Meek, at a Bascom Hill memorial service, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

America has a serious racial problem, that it can't bring itself to admit, and watching Madison, Wisconsin try to futilely distance itself from it - with it's own ugly history of racism standing in the way - should prove,...entertaining:

For demonstrators uniting under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter, the problem is not specific to a city or particular police officer, but systemic on a national level,… 

Citing a 2013 report by an initiative known as the Race to Equity, The Guardian reported that in 2011, "80 percent of youths in juvenile detention facilities in Dane County, where Madison is located, were African American. They represented only 9 percent of the county’s population."

Like King said of Barry Goldwater, Wisconsin's governor makes racists feel comfortable

Considering - with the election of Scott Walker - they've already jumped into bed with racism's worst elements, TMR is betting the residents of Madison can't break it off before everyone discovers what's going on,...

Race Returns To Walker's Wisconsin As If On Schedule

This is the perfect face,...of a racial problem

"We DO have a Ferguson in Madison."

Anyone familiar with TMR knows, I've been saying there's trouble brewing in Madison for some time:

Scott Walker, and his racist staff e-mails, were the most obvious evidence. 

Then there's the racially tone-deaf black sheriff - beloved by whites for never saying anything "black" - who's profoundly embarrassing, to everyone else, for the same reason. 

And also, there's been the numerous reports on Wisconsin's black poverty rate and segregation, the same harassment and illegal arrests of blacks we see nationwide, and much, much more. None of it by accident, all of it by default.

Taken together, for the whites of Madison to miss what's been happening there, racially - when it can easily be seen and predicted, even from a mediated distance, by TMR - is to be thoroughly detached from reality.

From what I know of the history, the place, and it's inhabitants, I can hardly be surprised that's been the case exactly,...

Ben Carson & Dr. Oz R 4 Entertainment Purposes Only

Thank you, Republicans: I love popcorn,...

A Moment When I Have To Say "No, Your Other Right"

Wrapping