Holy Crap. East Texas Crazy is Creeping Into Arkansas.
Sweet Jesus, thank you for making me a slave or else I would never have found salvation.
A Republican member of the Arkansas state senate’s self-published memoir claims that for black people in America, slavery was a “blessing in disguise,” that, if they were physically hardy enough to survive it, “someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.”
Jon Hubbard - He Thinks
Oh, so that’s what they mean about God working in mysterious ways.
And, least you think Jon Hubbard is just a brilliant philosopher, he has a mean side, too.
Hubbard also believes that black Americans’ lives would “be more enjoyable and successful if they would only learn to appreciate the value of a good education.”
And while he sees “the blacks” as a pressing problem facing America, the real threat, he wrote, comes from immigrants, “legal and illegal,” who will eventually have to be rounded up and killed.
“(T)he immigration issue, both legal and illegal… will lead to planned wars or extermination,” said Hubbard on page 9 of Letters to the Editor. “Although now this seems to be barbaric and uncivilized, it will at some point become as necessary as eating and breathing.”
I wonder if it sounds nicer in German.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up about things I didn’t want to know.
His hood and robe must be at the cleaners today.
1I wonder how blessed he would feel as a slave. He wouldn’t survive the harsh reality.
2Has he been hanging out with Gohmert again?
3When I was growing up, there were some pretty crazy people on the left going around and blowing things up, or planning revolution, or some such nonsense. They were the fringes of a movement that was trying to shake up the status quo and, in the end, the movement both succeeded, and failed. The weakened Democratic Party became more liberal, but were unable to stop the Conservative onslaught.
But everyone within the movement, and within the regular Party, condemned that hatred and/or violence.
I believe the pendulum of history has swung the other way, now, and the Party of Reagan has been hijacked by a Right Wing FRENZIED by the election of a black President, and FRENZIED by states like California and Texas, where the white hegemony is ending.
This frenzy is fed by a cold, calculating group of opportunists – profiteers, really – who find the deepest cracks in the American psyche – and the craziest crackpots among the American psychos – and exploit them for political and financial gain.
Jamokes like this creep, who should be locked into stocks and displayed at the business end of a state fair pie-throwing booth, are instead EXTOLLED as heroes, pampered as paragons of Americanism, and given positions of power and prestige over their fellow citizens. Instead of being run out of town on a rail, or at the very least, drummed out of their own party, they are befriended, funded and fed into the frenzy via an echo chamber of corporate flacks.
This has got to stop. It’s dangerous and it’s WRONG!
One final point about this piece of human excrement: the coming race war he’s going on about? We’ve heard that type of talk before from a fellow who is currently a permanent resident in Corcoran California, as a guest of the state. Guy name of Manson. I’m serious. These people are as crazy and dangerous as Charles Manson.
4This moran is being savaged all over the innerwebs and has been for a day or two. Makes me very HAPPY~
5This guy believes in “American exceptionalism”. He knows he isn’t a good example of that but consoles himself by denigrating everyone else.
I wish I could say he’s alone in his ignorance. Here in Pennsyltucky (thanks Don) I’ve been told by a relatively well educated (okay, trained in a tech field) co-worker that blacks and whites cannot coexist peacefully in America be cause their basic cultures are too different. His feelings on Muslims isn’t much different. He’d never say out loud that these groups should be eradicated, but he wouldn’t weep if it happened.
It makes me very sad and weary to know that the same ground must be covered again and again because the poison has penetrated so deeply into the American soil.
6Thank you daChipster and shortpeople. Your answers are spot on. I ran into this attitude, in fact almost the exact statement (Hubbard’s that is), among my “peers” as a very young, and somewhat naive teacher back in the very early days of school integration in Texas. It was very openly expressed by one young man in a staff development meeting involving both black and white male teachers/coaches. Even though I was, as I said naive, I was absolutely stunned by the incredible stupidity and arrogance, of the statement. However, I was not nearly as suprised by it as the person who made the statement was by the reaction of the black teachers in the room. He really thought they would agree with him. I knew at the moment that we were really in for a “wild ride” as public school teachers. I didn’t really know that it would last for the rest of my 40 year career!
7Doesn’t this guy belong to the party that wants to take away education (including Big Bird) from the poor?
8Why did Hubbard finish so soon? Why not mention how Native Americans were “someday (be) rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” Look how much their property values went up thanks to the same people who also helped out the sub-Saharan Africans. (Of course, just like you need to ignore stealing people from their families, throwing them overboard if they became ill on the passage to America, you may not want to mention most of the Native American’s land was not purchased from them.)
9I don’t think he really means that part about appreciating the value of a good education. Why if the Black Americans started to do that, we might end up with one of them as President!
10Party of Reagan? That hack’s reign was the beginning of real, unquestioning belief in the futility of guv’mint, defunding education, corporate infallibility, wage stagnation and otherwise making war on the middle class. I’m sure his masters were thrilled to have that lovable moron Uncle Ronnie as their public face. The insidious damage done in that era paved the way for dumbing down of the body politic and the mess we’re in now.
11Among other things, Hubbard needs to read a little more history. Unless he is full-blooded American Indian, he comes from immigrant stock. He is the last person who should be talking about education, as he appears very lacking in it and common sense.
12Wow…ignorance like that is almost an artform, it’s so breathtakingly stupid.
13Is that L. Jon Hubbard?
14That’s awful.
15How did his ancestors get here? Immigrated? Maybe he should plant himself first.
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