2016 Postmortem
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A supporter of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan waits for a campaign event to begin on October 12 in Lancaster, Ohio (Getty)
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What can I say? The Hate is Blatant? We already knew that..
2roos
(26 posts)Very sad - but the harsh reality................. "those haters really hate"
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)a Chord.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)A great irony of the skinhead subculture is that it is rooted in a multiracial style that emerged in London and other English cities.
At first, the skinheads seemed like just another rebellious youth subculture. But since the 1980s, each decade has brought eruptions of racist skinhead violence splashed across the evening news. Criminal attacks by shaved-head, boot-wearing white youths ranging from vandalism to murder have served to remind minority populations that maybe we haven't made that much progress in social relations. The skinhead "fad" shows no sign of fading. In November 1988, three skinheads in Portland, Ore., beat an Ethiopian student named Mulugeta Seraw to death with baseball bats. In April 1999, a Mexican immigrant named Irineo Soto Aguilar was murdered in Lakeside, Calif., by three skinheads who crushed his skull with chunks of concrete. In October 2007, a skinhead strangled a 62-year-old gay man in Oklahoma City as a rite of passage in his gang.
These stories are now such a consistent part of the American criminal landscape that most large police departments have bias-crime detectives, and many focus on skinheads as part of their gang enforcement strategies. Racist skinheads have also become a regular element in prisons and juvenile corrections facilities. The threat of a skinhead rally can lead whole communities to mobilize in opposition. The U.S. military has had to contend with racist skinheads in its ranks. Hate rock from racist skinhead bands has bled into the flow of rebellious teen music. And skinheads have taken their "boot parties" from the street to the Internet, targeting young people for recruitment into their supposed movement.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/racist-skinhead
Cha
(297,240 posts)should go Viral!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)voters.. poor(and by poor I don't mean not having money) racist bigoted, insecure assholeS.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)*Meaning, it might be nice to forget it, but it hangs on.
I just can't believe what small-minded, racist assholes dwell in our fair land.
I have dual citizenship (Mam was born in Ireland), and since Europe offers more upward mobility than the USA (and frankly, its easier to have a cracking good convo with someone over there about...well...anything, really), why wouldn't I leave these corroded shores?
On the other hand, my great-great-great-etc Grandmother was (purportedly) the first European to set foot on these shores (Mary Chilton), I feel I owe my country a good fight.
Yeah, fuck you, you fucking old racist twat. Rest assured the youth of this country are more tolerant than you are, you bald-headed wrinkly-necked fuck, and will replace you bigoted fucking racist selfish Teahadists in the blink of an eye.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)And you have a fascinating history. Yes, please stay; we need you.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)Guitarzz
(105 posts)iloveObama12
(421 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)And I live in Alabama.
I am shocked that the racism is this blatant.
I will keep this man's picture in my mind when I vote next month.