John McCain forced to denounce racist, homophobic member of Virginia leadership

[Shana A]

John McCain forced to denounce racist, homophobic member of Virginia leadership team
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 13:00:00 PM EDT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=28BE857D50D73002F7A837D03075CBB2?diaryId=7383

After a Florida middle school teacher uses 'n*gger' in the classroom to describe Barack Obama (and isn't fired), who knows how this is all going to escalate. Wonder no more - look at what was tapped out on the keyboard of Bobby May, who is treasurer of the Buchanan County (Virginia) Republican Party and the (now-former) county's representative on McCain's Virginia leadership team (h/t NotLarrySabato), in an article in the LAT:

    A local newspaper columnist, in a spoof of Obama's platform wrote in one recent piece that the Democrat would hire the rapper Ludacris to paint the White House black (a reference to a pro-Obama song by Ludacris), and divert more foreign aid to Africa so "the Obama family there can skim enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream." He joked that Obama would replace the 50 stars o the U.S. flag "with a star and crescent logo," an Islamic symbol, an that his policy on drugs would be to "raise taxes to pay for Obama' inner-city political base."

[RebeccaFog]

well that guy sounds ignorant. I saw the teacher story on TV.  They stuck a camera on some of the students and they said the guy jokes all the time.

so, they are being taught it's a joke.  One of the students was Black and he thought it was funny and didn't think the teacher meant any harm.

[tekla]

In a former slave state, and also the capital of the failed Confederate States, that N word is not a joke to the former African types there. 

[Alyssa M.]

I think Obama should talk to Mick Jagger about exterior decorating.

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It's awesome when minority kids are taught that bigotry is funny, like when transgender African American kids learn that jokes about ->-bleeped-<-s black people are funny. It does wonders for the self-confidence. Not that I'd know or anything.

[tekla]

All god's child'rn have to have someone to hate that is worse off then them.

[Alyssa M.]

But it's really special when "someone" means themselves.

[tekla]

My experience, limited though it is, is whenever someone says "someone" what they really mean is "someone else."

[Alyssa M.]

I was referring to Rebis' comment:

well that guy sounds ignorant. I saw the teacher story on TV.  They stuck a camera on some of the students and they said the guy jokes all the time.

so, they are being taught it's a joke.  One of the students was Black and he thought it was funny and didn't think the teacher meant any harm.

Haha, good joke. I bet the black student was laughing harder than anyone else.

With bigotry aimed at lgbt people, it's often assumed that "someone" is "someone else" when it's not the case. See "internalized transphobia." Also see Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, etc. That's got to be a horrible inner life you lead when you're a gay gay-basher.

[tekla]

That's got to be a horrible inner life you lead when you're a gay gay-basher.

I'm sure I have no idea, either as a personal deal, or as anyone I've ever known either, but, like I said, I don't get out much.