Race. There is nothing you can say to a conservative on this topic that will not inspire an immediate kneejerk reaction that race shouldn’t be the topic. Over and over again, conservatives tell us that race has nothing to do with it when they flip flop on Obama’s Libya actions (Newt Gingrich wanted bombing before…
Category: Sunday’s Sermons: Detailing the South’s Favorite Thing to Bring Up (Religion) and Their Least Favorite Thing to Bring Up (Race)
Sunday’s Sermons: Conservatives See President Black Panther, I see President Huxtable
“I don’t hate Obama because he’s black…” So starts almost every argument by people that don’t like Obama before leading to the second half of that sentence which proves they almost definitely hate him because he’s black “…I hate him because he’s a Muslim.” Not true. “…I hate him because he’s not born in the…
Segregation Street is a Two Lane Highway
If you’re a Southern white guy who likes black women, you should probably move. It isn’t because there are no black women in the South, far from it, just that they most likely won’t date you. Paradoxically, Mississippi (37 percent), Louisiana (32 percent), Georgia (30 percent), South Carolina (28 percent), and Alabama (26) have the…
GOP Stirs Up White Middleclass Fears of Islam and Mexicans so Middleclass Pays no Attention to the Thing Actually Being Raped: Its Wallet
If you are a Hispanic voter or a Muslim living in the United States, it has been a bad couple of weeks. Hell, it’s really been a bad decade but it’s these latest developments I’m talking about: 1. Several states (including Alabama) have recently enacted laws that would ban Sharia Law from being practiced or…
Sunday’s Sermons: I Pose as a Black Woman on the Internet
I don’t think one can ever really know what it’s like to be another person. I might utterly despise someone like former President Bush, but I really don’t know what it’s like to be him. That being said, it’s very true that he absolutely doesn’t know what it’s like to be me, poor, or a…
Sunday’s Sermons: Why Jesus Would Support Unions
If you don’t know by now, Wisconsin’s unions (except for the police unions which supported Walker and are exempt from his changes) are in a fight for their life against Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker. It won’t surprise anyone reading a site called Alabama Liberal that I’m firmly on the side of the unions, but it…
The New Religious Right, Not Really That Religious
In the 1980’s, the Reagan Revolution swept the country. It was an awkward marriage of fiscal conservatives trying to deregulate or privatize as much as they could get their hands on (no matter the long term economic costs) and tricking dirt farmers in Kansas that they were holy rollers in order to do it. This…
The Black Elephant in the Room and the White Lion on the Rooftop: Why People Won’t Say They Hate Obama Because He’s Black but Will Say They Hate Him Because of His “Religion”
“I am uncomfortable with a black President.” You won’t ever hear these seven, direct words uttered out loud about Obama, but you will hear people say everything except it. I have heard people hate him. I have heard he’s not really black (although he’s black enough for the same white people to never let him…