• 2nd February
    2012
  • 02
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01

justinspoliticalcorner:

(via Marie Diamond at Think Progress: Top Gingrich Adviser: “Democrats Abort Black Babies”)

As ThinkProgress has been reporting, GOP contender Newt Gingrich has built up quite the record of making derogatory, racially-charged remarks on the campaign trail. He frequently derides President Obama as a “food stamp president,” and said he would go to the NAACP and tell African-Americans they should “demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.” More than 40 Catholic leaders recently challenged Gingrich to “stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes” with his divisive rhetoric.

Last night, Gingrich’s most prominent surrogate, former Communications Director Rick Tyler, went on the offensive during an MSNBC interview with Rachel Maddow and the Rev. Al Sharpton when asked about his candidate’s racial rhetoric. He accused the anchors of “race-baiting,” and claimed Democrats are hurting African-Americans:

TYLER: It’s baloney. MSNBC ought to get off this race-baiting kick…The Republican Party was founded by Abraham Lincoln…this was started as a civil rights party. If you go back to the 1856 Democratic platform it’s a racist platform…The Democratic Party — you can ask Al Sharpton about that, I think he would agree that the Democrats have failed in the public schools with the African-Americans. They abort their babies. They’ve done nothing to lift them out of poverty.

  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
  • 1st February
    2012
  • 01
500 Years of Chicano History offered for FREE to AZ students

deliciouskaek:

triangularisthepie:

velocicrafter:

Banned 500 Years of Chicano History offered free to AZ students by ABQ publisher

500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez and published by the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), is included in a set of primarily Chicano and Native American books that have been banned by the Tucson Independent School District. The school district says it’s not a ban, but the books were removed from classrooms after the Mexican-American Studies program was eliminated, and teachers in that program have been instructed to not teach these books through the lens of ethnic studies. To us, this is a ban.

The SouthWest Organizing Project, in response to the current ban and the overall climate of fear and scapegoating of people of color in Arizona, is offering the book at a 50% discount to Arizona residents, and will give it for FREE to any Arizona Student who requests the book by sending a letter describing why they think the teaching of Chicano and Native American history accurately to young people is essential. Many Arizona students have already shown their disapproval of the ban, as hundreds walked out of class and marched on the Tuscon Unified School District’s headquarters earlier this week.

read more

what a fantastic initiative

(that “read more” is not a Tumblr cut, by the way—it leads to the website the original article is hosted on)

Wonderful.  This is wonderful.  💓

(via ladyatheist)