GA Rep Mark Hatfield Introduces Citizenship Bill Because He Likes To Talk
On Wednesday, Georgia State Representative J. Mark Hatfield, (R - Waycross)
introduced a bill requiring that anyone running in a Presidential primary in the state of Georgia would have to prove they meet the citizenship requirement of the Constitution.
When did the good Mr. Hatfield introduce it? Eight calendar days before the end of the legislative session. With only three days of active session to act upon it. How can the good Mr. Hatfield expect to pass it? Well, he doesn't:
Hatfield acknowledged that there's not enough time remaining in this year's legislative session to bring up his bill for a vote, but he introduced it anyway "to start a conversation" in Georgia, with the idea of re-introducing the bill in time for consideration in next year's legislative session.
Hmm. He could have introduced it earlier this year. He could have introduced it last year. He could have introduced it the year before that, when one of the Republicans on the primary ballot was not born in the U.S. and his citizenship was in question. He didn't. He waited until absolutely nothing could be done except his bantering about it while he runs for re-election.
And he still isn't convinced that Obama is a natural born citizen and eligible to be president.
11Alive News asked Hatfield, "Do you consider yourself a 'birther?'"
"No. I wouldn't say that, at all. I'm simply a citizen who is concerned, to make sure that the Constitution is upheld and enforced."
"So you don't know one way or the other whether he is a citizen of the United States?"
"Well, of course not. I have not been given any sort of proof, one way or the other."
Uh huh. Obama's birth certificate has been presented along with birth announcements in newspapers. If say you don't know Obama's a natural born citizen, you're either a moron or a liar.
Georgia State Representative Mark Hatfield (R - Waycross) is either a moron or a liar.
Labels: 2010 georgia legislative session, birther, georgia, legislature, mark hatfield, obama, politics, racism
Damn Canadians taking our jobs!
A friend at work is a Canadian immigrant. This was a continuous joke with us and I had to continually come up with some new way of insulting Canada, Canadians or him because he was Canadian. One day he walks into my team's cube farm and a wonderful insult pops into my head but then I thought, "Maybe this is really common even though I think it's new and unique and I'll just come across as a poseur." So I asked him.
"Has anyone ever called you an 'Iceback'?"
He turned and paused, then said slowly, "No."
Everyone in the area was silent for a moment until the joke set in. Raucous laughter ensued.
Labels: canada, racism, work
Racist bookstore chain closes
Karibu Books, a chain in Washington D.C., is
closing. Good riddance to those racist fucks.
Karibu was a
"Black" bookstore that is just as bigoted as the groups it's trying to enlighten. There is no such thing as "Black". African? Sure. American? You bet. There's even the occasional African-American who is the child of an African citizen and an American citizen. (Obama '08!) But...black? I've had a lot of
brown friends but never any black ones.
Even more disgraceful is when we try to assign characteristics or issues or interests to a single group, especially based on something as insignificant as the color of their skin. If there is no such thing as a "white" issue, then there is no such thing as a "black" issue.
I think the only "white issue" is the one the KKK has with "black" people. If we can all appropriately ridicule that, why are we accepting the idea of "black issues"?
Karibu, tho it may be well intentioned, is still set in the idea that we are not all Americans, that we are not all human, that we are not all creatures of this universe with diverse tastes and interests and concerns. In attempting to balance underrepresentation of authors who are black, they've ignored the fact that we shouldn't
care whether or not an author is black.
There are many forms of bigotry and we cannot excuse any simply because the practitioners have been the victims of gross bigotry for generations. Fuck Karibu Books and fuck everyone who thinks that a person's interests are dependent upon the color of their skin.
Labels: racism
QTOD: Black-owned Businesses and Chicken Thighs
"People aren't going to come to the store just because it's black-owned. They'll come because of the experience, the staff, the selection and quality. Otherwise they'll go to get a tiny yet cheaper selection of least common denominator "bestsellers" when they get their twenty-pack of chicken thighs at Costco."
Christopher Chambers, Author and Professor, Georgetown University,
"The Implications are more frightening than the reprecussions"[Editor's note: He misspelled repercussions, not I.]Labels: media, qotd, racism
Dr. King says, "Drink Malt Liquor"
Last year, students at Tarleton State University celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday with
"an off-campus party in which students dressed in hip-hop attire and sported 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor. Photos from the ``Bullets & Bubbly'' party were posted on Facebook.com."These kids are not alone:
In October, a group of first-year law students at the University of Texas at Austin were chided by the dean for participating in a “Ghetto Fabulous”-themed costume party and posting pictures online. Partygoers carried 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor and wore Afro wigs, necklaces with large medallions and name tags bearing historically black and Hispanic names.
But don't be afraid, the government is ready to crack down on these horrific parties that occur on private property and without public funding or support and involve no one getting hurt.
“If you look up the definitions for stereotype, bigot and prejudice, you will see they all mean the same thing. All those words are based on prejudging another class of people, which is exactly what Dr. King was fighting against,” [State Rep. Garnet F. Coleman, D-Houston] said in a statement. “What these students did and the day they did it on shows they were trying to be purposefully ignorant and prejudiced.”
Actually, Mr. State Representative, "stereotype", "bigot" and "prejudice" mean different things.
Some photos were archived at
The Smoking Gun.
I'm gonna get rich when I invent malt liquor flavored fried chicken.
Labels: alcohol, college, facebook, mlk, politics, racism, Tarleton State University
QOTD: Bitch, you almost made me laugh.
"'Whats a Nubian?' Bitch, you almost made me laugh."
"What about you? You didn't tell me you were gonna scream 'Black Rage!'--I nearly pissed myself."
--Hooper X and Banky Edwards, Chasing Amy
Labels: chasing amy, kevin smith, nubian, qotd, racism
