GA: white man beats down black woman in front of her child at Cracker Barrel

"Dissent is the highest form of racism"

Obviously this man was just dissenting with Hill's requests of care concerning her daughter. /sarcasm

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by: boloboffin @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 13:27:24 PM CDT

This is beyond cracker jokes because it's not just the South

Just one example of greasy-national-chain-based acts of foolishness:

About 4 years ago, we were in the Denny's in Durango, CO when a white woman told her 5 year old to insult my 5 year old with a racial slur--in order to clear the bench in the waiting area for her own grandma!

When I objected, in pretty ripe language that was issued quietly in her ear rather than screamed to the entire lobby, she shouted back at me: 'How was I supposed to know she was YOURS!'

Because somehow it would have been okay had the child been alone or accompanied by an adult of color. And she was not the only person there who felt that way, judging by the glares I got for applying quiet but firm social pressure.

I bring this up to suggest that there is a nationwide class of (white) (bully) (racist) adults among whom it's considered a victory to frighten a young child--but this guy took it to another level.

He needs to be locked up in the GA pen until he learns how to get along with those who are different from him.

But wait, there's more!

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by: PhoenixRising @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 13:32:09 PM CDT

This is just the tip of the iceberg...

The right wingers in the GOP have been working up their ignorant base into a blind frenzy of hate. It took a relatively minor spark to set this guy off on a woman and her child. This is the type of rage and resentment that they are trying to tap into for political gain.

Its really nasty and deeply disturbing. I expect it to get worse.

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by: SciFi Geek @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 13:50:40 PM CDT

IThe GOP Sees it

As their only chance to gain political power back.  

White resentment.  Bamboozle the lower classes into opposing and voting out the very politicians that are trying to pass programs that will help them.

Sadly it continues to work.

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by: MonicaR @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 14:40:43 PM CDT

Here's what I will not understand as long as I live

Well, I guess I do.

As far as this lunatic fringe is concerned, a feeling of racial superiority is all that they have. It seems as if most of them are no better off economically than the black and brown people that they hate and fear so much.

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by: kevinchi @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 14:51:14 PM CDT

Exactly

The target people of the lunatic fringe are these nuts with no social skills, no life, no future - but it's a life they proudly created for themselves, BTW.  

The people who have the time on their hands to get all worked up about people of other races are just as guilty of being welfare queens and using all these other government handouts that they accuse everyone else of taking advantage of.  The only difference is the white ones are being loudly ungrateful about the handouts they wait for every month.

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by: bluegrassfool @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 19:15:19 PM CDT

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4.00/1

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by: kevinchi @ Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 09:56:43 AM CDT

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Someone at Pandagon said a few weeks ago of this phenomenon

It goes beyond the "screw you, I got mine" mindset. It goes all the way into, "I don't care if I have to live in the dirt, so long as the n***** have to live in shit!"

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi

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by: Keori @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 19:34:35 PM CDT

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simple

it's lowering others to elevate yourself.  if only in your own mind.

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by: Lurleen @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 21:12:40 PM CDT

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Hey, look on the bright side.

We may not have a post-racial society.  And we sure don't have a post-gay one.  But we're well on our way to having a post-human society.  

The day will dawn, I suspect sooner rather than later, when anything even remotely civil, caring, understanding or empathetic will be considered deeply suspect and possibly even criminal in the Greatest Country in the World.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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by: QScribe @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 14:54:30 PM CDT

This would be a good use for

those "death panels" they've been talking about.

Beating a woman in front of her 7-year-old while shouting the n-word should get you excluded from all forms of healthcare.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 15:02:50 PM CDT

"Many people just watched"

Guaranteed that if a black were beating a white woman, he would still be in the hospital or the morgue. Post-racial society, HAH! There are a great number of sick people in this nation, I can only hope that through the generations we can reach a point when we can all live or lives in some semblance of peace and freedom.

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by: kelehe @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 15:35:10 PM CDT

For real

Black women and children are beyond disposable in this society. Our lives are worthless.

I can't wait for the inevitable bs that will start as the story spreads and people start talking about her "tone" and nonsense.

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by: Chovexani @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 16:06:16 PM CDT

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Everyone copy WSBTV's link

and send it to Fox News.

And send any other stories to them, too.

...Ready to Go!!

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by: Fired Up @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 16:10:50 PM CDT

I can see the headline now

"Coming up, scary combat-trained angry black woman attacks elderly white gentleman's fists with her face while her child looks on! Did ACORN pay her to do it?"

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi

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by: Keori @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 19:37:01 PM CDT

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Ok, I'm sorry

and feel terrible, but that was damn funny. The ACORN connection is so precisely what they would do...

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by: SciFi Geek @ Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 10:44:57 AM CDT

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Its getting scary out there.

Seriously, reading this and other posts its starting to sound a lot like pre-Nazi Germany. The only thing we lack is a Hitler, Goring, Himmler and the rest.

It does make me angry that FOX news is airing non-stop inflmatory and hateful shows belittling everyone. I've taken to calling Fox news the 'all white' channel due to its uniracial content too.

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by: Gina9223 @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 16:56:18 PM CDT

Oh yeah?

Gina -- We've had those kind of folks in power since Reagan, my dear: Limbaugh, Boortz, Cheney, Shrub, Rice, Rumsfeld, ed nauseum!

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by: Marlene @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 20:22:36 PM CDT

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Totally uncalled for

Damn good thing that THIS white woman wasn't in that Cracker Barrel when that "cracker" went on his little temper tantrum.

He would have gone to the hospital with a lot of damage and I would have been more than happy to go to jail to stand up to these people who are an embarrassment, I tell you, an embarrassment to the rest of the world.

Call me militant if you want but I will tell you all right now, if you don't defend yourself and allow beatdowns like this things will only get worse.

They expect us limp wristed liberals to do just that.

They will NOT find that with me.

We don't carry baseball bats on the picket line for show folks, we use them.

Union and proud.  

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by: labrat78 @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 16:59:53 PM CDT

I would've been right behind you!

I'd most likely be swinging a pot full of hot coffee, ready to pour it on that b@stard's back!

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by: Marlene @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 20:24:17 PM CDT

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Right behind ya

Right behind ya sister. Sounds like Cracker Barrel would have loved to supply the coffee to do it with.  

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by: labrat78 @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 21:05:18 PM CDT

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Protect yourself

join the www.pinkpistols.org.  Their motto is "Armed Gays Don't Get Bashed"

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.-- Thomas Jefferson

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by: Mykelb @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 18:17:36 PM CDT

Never, Ever

trust a man with a mullett.

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by: TomTallis @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 19:27:35 PM CDT

Cracker Barrel

Slightly off topic, but considering Cracker Barrels' history of racism, she was a fool to be patronizing the joint in the first place.

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by: tiponeill @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 20:04:15 PM CDT

blaming the victim?

not cool.

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by: Lurleen @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 21:15:53 PM CDT

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Beat me to it

Nope, it's all her fault, being a black person she should have extensive knowledge of all racist establishments, the fool!!! [Sarcasm/]

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by: BlahTCT @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 21:28:50 PM CDT

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My follow up post is here...

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/...

And the daughter is beside herself because she was the one who wanted to go to Cracker Barrel.

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 21:23:50 PM CDT

Defending

All I can say is that it's a good thing for him that I wasn't there!  I'd have found something handy to hit this guy with.  If we don't stand together against these fired up bigots, we're all going to fall to them.  Fox news should be charged with inciting acts of violence against minority groups.

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by: amberb_57 @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 21:45:05 PM CDT

so horrifying; what is there to say?

This guy could have been a guard at Abu Ghraib. That's a common technique: to torture someone while family members are forced to watch.

Reading about West and those like him, I find it difficult not to think of brownshirts and Kristallnacht.

Or of JFK and MLK: and how much worse things could get in America--for everyone--if the level of violence is turned up only a couple more notches.

I try to tell myself "you always worry too much," but then I read the news...and it seems as if my worst fears are being confirmed.

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by: cwm @ Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 06:52:59 AM CDT