I think H2O Man wrote a satiric statement about the furor the Right set up and set off with Kennedy coming to Dallas. Handbills were distributed a couple days prior to Kennedy's visit. A newspaper article was laid out to indict Kennedy of treasonous charges. Then a gunman acting in concert with other people did the unthinkable. Our nation still mourns the result.

Why don't we (the citizen we) have a plan of acting to circumvent this kind of hateful rhetoric? On one hand, we have the wackos dehumanizing the Obamas by making them akin to beasts like monkeys. It is easier to attack that which is not human. On the other hand, there is the not my gun, can't do this to my country, and he is not really an American crowd moving forward.

How do you redirect this kind of animosity before it gets a head of steam?

There are non profits like the Southern Poverty Law Center. Who covers their reports to highlight what aspects of the militia/white supremacists are doing?

Who is going forward to their state/local law enforcement agencies to ask what is being done to halt their threats against people in the community?

It takes everyone working together to say not in my community, not on my block, and not in my schools.

They can jerk us around for the next 8 years.


I am not saying this new or latest outrage is not offensive. I am putting this forward as a means to stop what conservatives will label an overreaction poutrage.


The way conservatives demonized Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson over the years was to label them race hustlers and act like they continued to beg at trough of corporate largess.


The way conservatives attacked affirmative action was to make white people feel it is okay to say: how long must we be sorry for slavery? or better yet how long must non white non slave owning people be responsible for rehabilitating a morally reprehensible people?


I won't argue about whether these outright lying s.o.b.s deserve to have each and every charge answered. They don't. My idea is that if there is a new strategy underfoot to desensitize people so they can do greater and more offensive things to AAs, specifically the Obamas, then what in the hell should be done on a BROADER scale.


There are (please feel free to add to the list):
1. Obama ministrel waffle cereal
2. Obama as Curious George shirts
3. Obama's WH depicted as a watermelon patch

so on and so forth


What is a centralizing message that can be used whenever this b.s. surfaces without drawing our collective attention away from the prize?