Motivated by Hatred
Keith Olbermann delivers an excellent segment on the unsavory history of racialized memes and epithets and how they uncannily characterize today's political rhetoric.
September 16, 2009
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My name is Dee. I am a second-year doctoral student in sociology at the University of Arizona. Prior to enrolling here, I have worked in marriage and family therapy, community mental health in the nonprofit sector, and behavioral counseling.
I have been blogging for a few years now, but Brainsplitter is my most recent valiant effort to enhance both my writing and my research interests while networking with other social scientists and fledgling scholars.
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My name is Dee. I am a second-year doctoral student in sociology at the University of Arizona. Prior to enrolling here, I have worked in marriage and family therapy, community mental health in the nonprofit sector, and behavioral counseling.
I have been blogging for a few years now, but Brainsplitter is my most recent valiant effort to enhance both my writing and my research interests while networking with other social scientists and fledgling scholars.
My writing interests for this project include politics, culture, race, and current events. My research interests off- and on-blog include race and ethnicity, culture, social movements, public and social policy, social reforms, grassroots politics, and community mobilization.
In my downtime, I enjoy swimming, running, volleyball, and hanging out with my friends. I strongly identify as a liberal, a progressive, and freethinker, but I also appreciate good debate and dialogue. When people talk, ideas move and get exchanged. This blog is written in the spirit of such respectful contemplation and argumentation.
Comments and feedback are always appreciated. I'd love to hear from you.
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2 comments:
Sara Palin is such an asshole. I love how she, so self-assuredly, says: "Our president is associating with known terrorists."
How quickly Sara forgot that the Bush family has close ties with the Bin Laden family.
As it is, some of the so-called hijakers are still walking around, quite alive, today. No one knows for sure who did it, even though they claim Bin Laden took credit.
I believe the Bush administration orchestrated it, to give us a reason to go into the oil war.
And, Obama's association with "terrorists" was an acquaintance when he was 8 years old.
It was Bush who secretly flew the Bin Ladens to safety immediately after the tower attacks. So, a man in his near-sixties associating with Bin Laden, or an 8 year old boy who was in a neigbouring area to some man. Geez, lemme think?!
The conservatives employ such a fantastic political tactic of creating racial disharmony and hysteria. They create a smokescreen and natch, it takes away from the important issues that need advancement and attention.
If not for all this drama, we would have cancer patients getting treatment, and the insurance companies and their investors would have to realize that humanity is better than money.
My first choice was Nader, but I have to give mad props to Obama, for wading through all the bs and trying to reform our country and making it a better place.
If only we could exile Palin, the tea party'ers, the yes-on-8'ers, and those holding the confederate flag, saying "The South will rise again."
America is becoming an embarassment worldwide, and Obama is a saint compared to all the anti-Obamas, just because they need to be anti-something. They are so ridiculously hypocritical.
I love Keith Olbermann, and I absolutley LOVE your blog! It's in my blogmarks, and I have to say, it is very well-written!
That's very sweet of you to say, Ladybug. Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you'll come back soon.
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