I’ve been hearing a lot lately about the terrifying scale of the racist hatred being directed toward Obama. Yesterday I saw this article, which implied that the Secret Service is struggling to keep up with threats against the president.
Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per [...]
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
(And feminist, and anti-classist, and pro-GLBTQI, and anti-ablist, and so on. It’s a human right.) So I went to VA1 this morning. Now I had no appointment (my pain only became unmanageable in the last week) so I had to go through the walk-in clinic. My preferred clinic is Women Health and their walk in hours are only on Mondays and Thursdays so when I got there at 11:20 today [...] Senator Edward Kennedy was a tough guy. He was smart, tenacious, opinionated, strong in body, mind, and spirit. And I think because he was such a tough guy, he won’t mind if I don’t share my real and uncensored thoughts on the occasion of his passing. For most of my adult life, I’ve had to live without health insurance. Because I was a freelancer for many years, or because I did not have a fixed residence for a while, or because my skills and career interests often meant that the best jobs available to me were with small companies or non-profit [...] Aside from my deep seated belief that at least some of the Obama = Hitler people are being paid to make these appearances, I’ve often wondered why anyone entertains their nonsense. Finally someone does not and it is amazing. I’m still trying to work out how Obama’s health care plan = return to Nazi Germany [...] Racism, Right-Wing Rage and the Politics of White Nostalgia. Tim Wise is trying to give America a history lesson. I don’t expect that to end well. Not because his facts are bad (they are excellent) but because America seems committed to pretending that various major events and policies over the last 200 years didn’t happen [...] Obama has picked Sonia Sotomayor as the next Supreme Court nominee! …But already the bullshit begins: There was much to be happy about today and I will blog about that in a bit, but I do need to point out something: Today we did not take place in the Day of Service because we planned to go into DC, get our tickets, then go meet up with family in Maryland. We thought this adventure would take a few hours, we did not count on it taking over 6. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Copyright © 2005 - 2010 The Angry Black Woman - This blog and associated pages are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ongoing Conversations