Greg Stumbo may be yet again stepping into muddy waters on the topic of race in the presidential race. We’re not suggesting he’s racist by any means, but comparing the discrimination people in Appalachia are victim of is hardly the same as racial discrimination and prejudice. Tricky territory. [WLEX18]
Mitch McConnell was on his friend Rush Limbaugh’s hate show yesterday talking about killing the environment and the entire world. Limbaugh discussed his retarded-ass “Operation Chaos” plan and then begged his ditto-head listeners to urge Hillary Clinton to stay in the presidential race. Pill heads never disappear, do they? [Here, Here and Here]
Woops. Looks like members of the Hollywood-controlled librul media want to know when someone is abusing their state vehicle. Hell must have frozen over because the media wants to stop corruption in government. Everybody run for cover! [Mark Hebert]
And more from Hebert. How afraid is Mike Duncan of the RNC? Go read his latest fundraising message and you’ll get a sense that he’s terrified of Barack Obama. [Hebert]
The Fairness Campaign wrote a letter to the Courier-Journal in response to probably homosexual Davd Edmund’s insecure op-ed from a couple days ago. The writer brings up some nasty mailings that affected a Louisville Metro Council candidate and we can’t wait to tell you more about that story. So stay tuned for it. [C-J]
Ryan Alessi has the break down of David Williams’ decision to stop the wasteful Annex renovation in Frankfort. Interesting time lines. And State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach just appeared in a news story for the first time, maybe! But it was only about him not commenting on the of some of his office space. Being a friend of Frank Simon has damaged him politically. [H-L]
See? It’s way too hot. [C-J]
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1 Taylor // Jun 5, 2008 at 11:15 am
“Greg Stumbo may be yet again stepping into muddy waters on the topic of race in the presidential race. We’re not suggesting he’s racist by any means, but comparing the discrimination people in Appalachia are victim of is hardly the same as racial discrimination and prejudice. Tricky territory.”
Not so fast. While both groups of people have definitely suffered their fair share of discrimination – moreso than one being more severe than the other, these types of discrimination have simply been different. While Appalachian people have never had to suffer the pervasive culture of violence that was forced upon blacks (with some exceptions. read: Blair Mountain 1921), they have had to suffer a longer-lasting discrimination – largely based on misconceptions similar to those made about blacks centuries earlier. So when Stumbo says that blacks and Appalachians have shared experiences and common ground – especially socio-politically – he is absolutely correct. Sure, Greg Stumbo has never had a firehose turned on him when peacefully marching for his civil rights – but blacks now enjoy the protection from discrimination that we now expect all minorities to receive. But for whatever reason, Appalachian people are the only ones who we are still allowed to make fun of without being publicly reprimanded. Is one type of discrimination better or worse? Neither, just different – but more than that, discrimination is wrong regardless of who it is perpetrated upon.
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