[Vision2020] Say What?

Wed Sep 16 15:41:00 PDT 2009

I didn't think I had to come out and say that I find "white trash" offensive.  I do.

And I think I made it clear that the issue I was discussing had less to do with whether or not there might have been light-skinned Latinos or dark-complected mistakenly referred to as "white," or not, but that the concerns of the Tea Partyers are not the concerns of most of the nation's non-white citizens.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

From: editor at lataheagle.com
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com; thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:36:21 -0700

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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