Vos iz Neias Was Walt Disney a rabid anti-Semite? Richard Sherman (Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” ‘‘The Jungle Book”) dismissed such lingering criticism outright. It’s “absolutely preposterous to call him anti-Semitic,” said Sherman, the son of Jewish immigrants.. Historian and soci[...]
Archive for August, 2015
August 3rd, 2015 - 3:05 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: What Aussies call their Honkeys
Gub, Gubba (AUS) Aboriginal pejorative term for white people[87][...]
August 3rd, 2015 - 2:13 am § in Misc.
REPUGNANTS: Is Scott Walker a “Christian?”
Even after the president’s eulogy following a racially motivated shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, where one attendee called him “minister-in-chief,” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) still isn’t sure if Barack Obama is Christian. “I don’t know. I presume[...]
August 2nd, 2015 - 9:55 pm § in America
Family Squabbles: The Return of Steve Shits
THE Ave again has a sister site. My South Carolinian brother in law, William Quick had created the site and then abruptly took it down. Now it is back. Though he has deleted previous content, at least some of that content and the tone can be seen on the new incarnation of the site. This [...]
August 2nd, 2015 - 9:23 pm § in Misc.
Fox annunces high tech solution to manage the Republican horde
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August 2nd, 2015 - 8:20 pm § in Uncategorized
How St. Louis County municipalities rob poor black people
In Pagedale, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb like Ferguson, town officials raise money by slapping fines on poor black residents. Among Pagedale’s municipal ordinances, according to a local lawyer: “[Y]ou can’t have a hedge more than three feet high. You can’t have a basketbal[...]
August 2nd, 2015 - 6:34 pm § in Uncategorized
Georgia cops assume black renter is a burglar and rough him up
In another ugly incident of racial profiling, neighbors in an Atlanta suburb who saw an elderly black man moving boxes into a rental house assumed he was a burglar and called police, who threatened him with drawn guns and manhandled him. The cop who slammed his face into a brick wall was fired, not [...]
August 2nd, 2015 - 5:57 pm § in Misc.
San Jose cop threatens black family with drawn gun for no damn reason
The San Jose, California, police department is being sued by a black family over an ugly incident of racial profiling. Emmanuel Stephens and Jasmine Whitley (pictured) had picked up their 7-year-old daughter from school and were driving home when a cop began following them. When they arrived at home[...]
August 2nd, 2015 - 5:38 pm § in Politics
You won’t believe this GOP ad
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