In “The Subtle Racism of the Republiklans” (9 Feb 09) we explored the viral joke from the inauguration, and the “Proud to be White” letter that’s made a new flurry in the blogosmear™. We talked about the sentencing of a man who shot people in a church because he hated “liberals.” And we talked about Ex-Klan Grand Googley-Moogley David Duke’s enraged response to the GOP electing a “Black racist”as RNC Chair: “To Hell With the Republican Party! ( and subtitled, lovingly, GOP Traitors Appoint Obama Junior as hair of the Reoublican Party” on a page entitled: GOP traitors appoint Black racist as Chairman of the Republican Party). We’ll be back there, by and by.
not the cheap, sensationalist come-on
illustration that you might think it to be …
Today, we look at who and/what was behind that letter. Because the letter is not new, nor is fisking it. A journey to the belly of the Beast. Fasten your seatbelts. Continue reading
