The word is "Racism"!

Perhaps no one exemplifies Southern racism and its public resurgence more than does Joe Wilson, the liar, from South Carolina. It's somehow appropriate that he comes from the state that fired the shot that started the Civil War!

Mark Karlin, editor of BuzzFlash, has written an important article dealing with the racist underpinnings of the rightwhitewingnut opposition to President Obama. He notes that "white racists will not accept a 'black boy' as their boss, particularly one who is smarter than they are."

Karlin continues:

" ... the South and whites who need blacks as scapegoats have never conceded the Civil War. Heck, they haven't even accepted the Civil Rights laws of the '60s.

"It's important to remember that a little more than 50 years ago, segregation was still the reality of Southern life, and that our military was only desegregated in the Korean War."

But here's where I think he nails it:

" [...] There is no greater and unjust privilege in the world than claiming power and authority merely because one is born a certain skin color. For whites who have seen their incomes decline and jobs lost because of global corporations shifting jobs to below-poverty wage nations, the Siren song of right wing hate radio -- financed by the very corporations fleecing the economically stretched white person of limited education and means -- is alluring."

There's much more, which you can read here.


It is time I think that progressives, Democrats and Republicans alike, begin telling it like it is. There is nothing that President Obama can ever do to ameliorate the hatred of Joe Wilson and his ilk for they are not merely deluded nogoodniks, they are racists through and through. A black man will never be "legitimate" in their hate-filled, racist eyes!