[Vision2020] Say What?

[Kai Eiselein]

I didn't watch the video, nor do I plan to.
My kid looks white...when she's with whites. Take her to Lapwai or Plummer where she's around other Indians, and there's absolutely no doubt she's native. 

Skin tone and hair color are no guarantees of "whiteness". My kid had copper colored hair when she was younger, it's darker now, but you can see the red in the sunlight. My grandson shows the same traits, although his skin tone is a bit darker, possibly because his father has native blood as well.

So, I'll ask again how how do we "know" there aren't any non-whites in the video? And doesn't the term "white trash" directly contradict King's statement about judging people by the color of their skin?


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: keely emerinemix 
  To: editor at lataheagle.com ; Tom Hansen ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:04 AM
  Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Say What?


  I think it's pretty clear that what Tom was saying was that the overall makeup of the Tea Parties, like the GOP convention, is overwhelmingly NOT Mexican, Black, or Asian, a point that can be made if, for example, you look at footage of the Democratic Party's convention and the GOP convention.  

  One group looks more representative of the wonderful diversity of culture, race, color and language we have in the U.S.  The other looks like a midwest country club circa 1950, or a typical Sunday morning at too many Baptist (or Presbyterian, or Episcopalian, etc.) churches.  If 11:00 a.m. on Sunday is the most racially segregated hour in America, a fact that speaks poorly of the Church as a whole, it's easy to suggest that the most racially homogenized political movement in the nation is represented by Tea Partyers.  That doesn't make them "trash," nor does it, in and of itself, make them bigots.  But let's not pretend that the Tea Party and 9/12 movements are anything other than the squeals and moans of the socioeconomic, sociopolitical majority -- white America -- as its grip on power is wrested from it.  

  Some people are terrified at what Pat Buchanan calls the "browning" of the U.S.; some people see that the cultural and ethnic evolution of this or any other country is nothing to be terrified of.  I think there's no real question of which group the Tea Partyers and 9/12ers belong.

  Keely
  www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




  > From: editor at lataheagle.com
  > To: thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
  > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:49:13 -0700
  > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
  > 
  > How can you tell none are non-white? Do you have some secret "race scanner" 
  > that tells you so? Or is it your own trained eye, perhaps some technique 
  > used in S. Africa during apartheid to determine race? The curve of the back, 
  > the slump of the shoulders or the placement of the cheekbones maybe?
  > Please do tell us how you are absolutely certain there are no non-whites.
  > 
  > 
  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
  > To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
  > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:24 AM
  > Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
  > 
  > 
  > > "An Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist-in-chief."
  > >
  > > - Tea party organizer Mark Williams on Obama
  > >
  > > ----------------------------------------------------
  > >
  > > And those, approximately 60,000 (Washington, DC Fire Department
  > > estimation), attendees at the Tea party march reflect the entire range of
  > > the right-wing conservative spectrum; white to whiter to whitest.
  > >
  > > Check for yourself . . .
  > >
  > > I challenge everybody to identify one, JUST ONE, non-white attendee in
  > > this video of interviews conducted at the march.
  > >
  > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcMqqFGvMs
  > >
  > > Seeya round town, Moscow.
  > >
  > > Tom Hansen
  > > Moscow, Idaho
  > >
  > > "All that stands in the way of universal health care in America are the
  > > greed of the medical-industrial complex, the lies of the right-wing
  > > propaganda machine, and the gullibility of voters who believe those lies.
  > >
  > > Let's not let volume beat reason."
  > >
  > > - Unknown
  > >
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