Clinton, Sanders and Progressive Racism

Only historical ignorance could explain black affinity for progressivism.

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders seek to claim the "progressive" mantle. Both claim the other is not a true progressive. Clinton teased Sanders as being the "self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism." Bernie Sanders said that Hillary Clinton can't be both a moderate and a progressive and that most progressives don't take millions from Wall Street. But let's talk about the origins of progressivism. It's only historical ignorance that could explain black affinity for progressivism.

Another Attack From The Left

TEAR DOWN THAT CONFEDERATE FLAG... OR ELSE!!!

By Rod Eccles

There are those, a few, who believe this is a racist nation. They point to the fact that Americans fly the Confederate Battle Flag. They claim we honor the racist Generals and Politicians from the Old South. They further claim that in order to stamp out racism that we need to bring down that Confederate Battle Flag.

What’s Really Going On With Holder’s Civil-Rights Crusade Against Police Departments

Most of us realize that the firestorm created by the race baiters and the "Powers That Be" over Ferguson and Staten Island have nothing to do with Michael Brown or Eric Garner. 

There is a nefarious hidden agenda: intrusion into and the weakening of local governments and their agencies in order to pave the way for ultimate control by the Federal government.

From Family Security Matters

The government cannot win a standalone loser of a civil-rights prosecution by crying, "Disparate impact!" Individual cases that have been demagogued by the racial-grievance industry become high profile. Once public attention is riveted, the legal and logical flaws become obvious. When people start looking long and hard, the "institutionalized racism" canard is exposed. For guys like Sharpton, that's bad for business.

But the Justice Department civil-rights investigations Holder is fond of announcing are not like public trials. They occur out of the public eye, where feverish Justice Department claims are not aired and scrutinized. More significant, they happen with the air of extortion created by the nearly $28 billion in funding Congress keeps giving Justice every year, no matter how many congressional investigations it obstructs, how many false statements its officials make, and how much it politicizes law enforcement. The investigations are taxpayer-funded jihads that states, cities, and towns know they lack the resources to fight off.

Here is how the game works. Holder streams in behind a tragedy that Sharpton and Obama have demagogued. He announces a civil-rights investigation. Eventually, he backs down from the threat of an indictment in the individual case, never conceding that the supporting evidence was not there, usually citing some strawman injustice that has nothing to do with the matter at hand - in Florida, for example, it was "stand your ground" gun laws that purportedly needed reforming. But, the attorney general is pleased to add, the original civil-rights probe of the non-crime has metastasized into a thoroughgoing civil-rights probe of the state or local police department's training, practices, and . . . drumroll . . . institutional racism.

You never get to see what that investigation turns up. States and their subdivisions know they cannot afford to go toe-to-toe with the Beltway behemoth. Big cities, moreover, are governed by Democrats sympathetic to the Obama/Holder race obsessions - they're happy to have the feds come in and hamstring police with "social justice" guidelines that would be a hard sell politically. So the Justice Department makes the locals an offer they can't refuse: A consent decree that makes the Treaty of Versailles look like a slap on the wrist. This device is the license by which the Obama administration is remaking state law enforcement in its own image.

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Paula Deen, Celebrities, Racism & Rubbernecking

 Reblogged from Freedom, by the way

 I veered from my usual morning news this morning to catch Matt Lauer’s interview with Paula Deen on The Today Show. I am not a Paula Deen fan but I've nothing against her, either. I just don’t enjoy cooking.  So I don’t waste any more time with anything that has to do with food preparation than absolutely necessary to put meals on the table. Translated: I never watch the Food Network or set aside funds for cookbooks or kitchen gadgets. I don't even own a food processor (which costs more than a decent digital camera).  If it can't be pureed in a blender or shredded by hand, it doesn't get made.