Not Even Surprising
Okay so, Ray Myer, a member of the Texas Republican Party’s Platform Committee, spoke out loud.
I don’t know why that would make headlines. After all, have you read the Texas Republican Party Platform?
Good Lord, Honey, if you give that guy a hot toddy or two, he’ll show you his civil war flag he carries while he wears his WWII helmet. And his outfits show that he was on the losing side both times. You’d think he’d learn.
“Is there anything wrong with saying they’re black and proud? Is there anything wrong with being an American Indian and saying that we’re red and proud?” Myers responded. “I mean, just like Black Lives Matter, white lives matter, too. We’re all in the same melting pot. Now why can’t we say, as Anglos, that we’re proud?”
Because, jerk, that’s not how racism works. You’re the majority. You own most of the money and most of the power.
Myers is a 74-year-old activist who has been involved in GOP politics for decades. But “the pivotal political moment came when Obama came on the scene. I knew immediately that America was in trouble,” he said in an Empower Texans profile.
Yeah, that’s it. You got it. That is how racism works.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
Yup, definitely a V1 Human.
1I guess the Blazing Saddles town of Rockridge wasn’t racist either. His statement about Obama reminds me of the classic scene where the town “knew they were in trouble” when they found out the sheriff was a “ni-CLANG”. Obviously not racism, they thought he was too young for the job… or too old, or some other excuse. (/snark)
2At least Cracker Ray stayed in Texas. Old Scratch McConnell vowed to make President Obama a one term president before he was inaugurated then proceeded to obstruct him for 8 years for no better ‘reason’ than Obama was black. And, the old dotard now in the WH rode over 18 other snacilbupeR on the Birther Express. ITA with Dotard45 on “drain the swamp” with one major difference; I mean drain the swamp of all snacilbupeR and their corporate sponsors/lobbyists.
Ray and those other racist old boys can’t travel the path of the Fox Not the News dwindling as in dying off viewers too soon.
3My understanding of nationalism is that someone who subscribes to that ideology places their nation’s interests first. Even to the detriment of other nations. So a white nationalist would therefore put the interest of white folks first. Even to the detriment of other races. Methinks that’s just a tad different from claiming that all people should just be proud of who they are as a reason to defend the belief in their own supremacy, to the detriment of others.
4Upon further reflection, I phrased that badly. But y’all get the gist.
5OK. Let me say a few things about how Dorothy Bush raised George Herbert Walker. There was no such thing as “I” and/or “I alone” in the Bush lexicon. Sharing was a requirement just to hold on to your membership in the family. Politics ended around 6 PM on workdays and decent human behavior took over. Where was this Myer guy during all that time? Living zipped up in a cave? (Ditto for the POTUS 45 — and in spades!!!)
6Another idiot that thinks having the genetic mutation that causes a melanin deficiency somehow makes him superior to those that don’t.
7But don’t worry all those monuments honoring traitorous trash like lee, jackson, hood and the trash that committed mass murder on command in defense of genocide and slavery are just monuments to “history” dishonorable and disgusting as it may be.
8Just like the germans erecting monuments to hitler et.al. or cambodia’s historical monuments to pol pot.
Traitor state politics still live in treason.
Um, k, the Germans don’t have monuments to Hitler. Even doing the “Heil Hitler” salute is illegal over there, as far as I know. They regard him as completely toxic as a way of weeding out the Germans who still think the way he did.
9Yeah the Bavarian government destroyed the Berghof in 1952 and carted off the debris over a few years. They did so to prevent the site from becoming a Mecca for nationalists of all stripes. I’ve been to the area as a youth in the 60s and at that time not a single sign mentioned Hitler or the Nazi retreat once on the physical site.
10@Rhea
“Um, k, the Germans don’t have monuments to Hitler.”
I know and yet the US has monuments to scum like lee, hood, jackson and davis.
11Only country in the world that “honors” traitors and the trash that fought for them
Forty or so years ago we stayed at a hotel in Bavaria that had previously been an R and R for Hitler’s elite and taken over by the American military. I still recall the Rathskeller still decorated with larger-than-life paintings depicting Aryan farmers, etc in all their blonde glory. Scary but fascinating.
12Myers is a 74-year-old activist who has been involved in GOP politics for decades. But “the pivotal political moment came when Obama came on the scene. I knew immediately that America was in trouble.”
What was the key factor in that “pivotal political moment” to a man who had been in the GOP “for decades”? Something he “knew immediately”?
Any guesses…?
A.J.
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