Mike Pence demonstrates a "whiter shade of pale."

you'd think by now republicans would have learned their lesson on the all-white selfies pic.twitter.com/pQRA7g98pp

— sean. (@SeanMcElwee) November 17, 2016

Jesus I can barely look at that picture without my sunglasses on.

I think I might have burned a retina.

Kind of reminds me of this picture.

And that my friends is the Republican party in a nutshell.

 What a great time to be a white male in America.

You know if you are a selfish POS who does not care for your fellow man of course.

David Duke, Trump supporter and former grand dragon of the KKK, claims that Hillary Clinton is an agent of "White Genocide." Can she start with him?

David Duke. Typical Donald Trump supporter. No, really!

Courtesy of Angry White Men:

On the September 7, 2016 episode of his radio show, David Duke and co-host Jay Hess hyped black-on-white crimes and accused Hillary Clinton of being an architect of “white genocide.” As Hess put it, Clinton “represents the forces of white genocide” and is “definitely a traitor to her people” who doesn’t care if white people are “outbred.”

With that, Duke segued into the argument that white people are being targeted for non-white violence. He insisted that there are “hundreds of thousands of white victims of massive non-white crime.” He went on to say that:

"When a person goes to the store, they go to the mall, or they drive somewhere in their car and they break down, or they stop at a traffic light and they might get hijacked, nine times out of ten it’s not gonna be some white guy hijacking their car. It’s not gonna be a white guy kidnapping them at the Walmart, right? And, you know, taking their family and slaughtering them, or robbing them or raping the women. That’s just the reality of life in this country."

For the record I live in lily white Alaska and when somebody here gets robbed, raped, or kidnapped it is more often than not a white guy.

Like David Duke. 

Crime is crime, and ethnicity has little to do with it.

Often it is the result of poverty, or a lack of education, or a sense of hopelessness.

Yes sometimes those things are found in African American communities, but also in poor Hispanic communities, in poverty stricken Asian communities, and yes in poor mostly Caucasian communities.

The idea that crime is determined by race is a White Nationalist meme that has little fact to back it up.

And there are also no facts to back up Duke's assertion that Hillary Clinton is a self loathing agent of white genocide.

Obviously.

It looks like someone is bucking to be added to that "basket of deplorables."

White Christians now make up less than half of all Americans, but virtually ALL of the Republican party.

Courtesy of the National Journal:  

Long the dom­in­ant group in Amer­ic­an re­li­gious life, White Chris­ti­ans have fallen be­low a ma­jor­ity of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion—and they are mov­ing to the right polit­ic­ally as they re­cede. 

The res­ult is that, like race and age, re­li­gious af­fil­i­ation marks a sharpen­ing point of dis­tinc­tion between Re­pub­lic­ans and Demo­crats, pre­vi­ously un­pub­lished res­ults from the Pew Re­search Cen­ter’s massive Re­li­gious Land­scape sur­vey show. 

As the na­tion re­lent­lessly di­ver­si­fies, both in its ra­cial com­pos­i­tion and re­li­gious pref­er­ences, White Chris­ti­ans now rep­res­ent just 46 per­cent of Amer­ic­an adults, ac­cord­ing to Pew data provided in re­sponse to a re­quest from Next Amer­ica. That’s down from a 55 per­cent ma­jor­ity as re­cently as 2007, and much high­er fig­ures through most of U.S. his­tory. 

Yet even as White Chris­ti­ans shrink in their over­all num­bers, they still ac­count for nearly sev­en-in-10 Amer­ic­ans who identi­fy with, or lean to­ward, the Re­pub­lic­an Party, the Pew study found. White Chris­ti­ans, in fact, rep­res­ent as large a share of the Re­pub­lic­an co­ali­tion today as they did of Amer­ic­an so­ci­ety over­all in 1984, when Ron­ald Re­agan won reelec­tion. A clear ma­jor­ity of all White Chris­ti­ans across the United States now identi­fy as Re­pub­lic­an, Pew found.

The data demonstrated that the result of the changing demographics is that the Republican party is becoming more entrenched in conservative religious values while the Democratic party is split among the white less religious liberals, and the more traditional, and more religious, blacks and Hispanic voters.

This means that the GOP can get the voters animated with simple talking points claiming there is an attack on their religion, or that the brown people are coming to take their freedoms away, while the gays are indoctrinating heir children.

On the other hand the Democrats have to walk a finer line, preaching more tolerant attitudes, while also being careful not to insult those raised in more traditional Christian homes.

Even though the trend is working in favor of the Democrats, there are still numerous elections ahead where the cohesion of the Republican party presents a real challenge to Democratic candidates.

And in smaller local elections, where getting out the conservative vote means simply paying a visit to the local churches, the challenge for liberals is to find a candidate that the various fractions within the Democratic party can rally behind.

Sadly this is the problem with leading those who make decisions based on critical thinking, as opposed to those who makes theirs based on faith.

There are now 19 states where white Christians are no longer the majority.

Courtesy of Think Progress:

A new study reports that white Christians, long understood to be the primary shapers of American politics and culture, are rapidly losing their majority status across the country — even in traditionally conservative states. 

Earlier this week, Jonathan Merritt of the Religion News Service dug into data from the American Values Atlas, a website unveiled late last year by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) that aggregates polling information on the political opinions, values, and religious affiliations of Americans. The wealth of data is a lot to sift through, but Merritt pointed to a striking revelation: white Christians, once the majority in virtually every major population area in America, are now a minority in 19 states. 

 ..... 

Taken together, the PRRI data and Merritt’s analysis highlight several areas where white Christians are now the minority. Some states on this new list are fairly predictable, such as Hawaii, the only majority-minority state in America, and California, home to two of the top five most-diverse counties in the nation. 

“Hawaii and California have the smallest white Christian populations of any state—20 percent and 25 percent, respectively,” Joanna Piacenza, an editor and communications associate at PRRI, noted in a blog post. 

But the list of states also revealed some surprises, and included several conservative, historically-white, church-going “red states” such as Texas, Georgia, and Louisiana.

Well you know this news is going to freakout the Fox News watchers and racists in the country. (Assuming of course those are two different categories.) 

Personally I am really thrilled to see Alaska listed among the states where the white Christian demographic is in the minority.

However I know full well that the money and the power remains in the hands of the white Christians. But perhaps those days will someday come to an end as well.

A rather accurate representation of justice in America.

New study reveals that fear of becoming racial minority is causing more white people to turn conservative. Gonna file this under, "Gee, no kidding."

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Two researchers from the Department of Psychology and Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University demonstrated that the more white Americans know about the changing demographics of the United States, the more likely they are to endorse conservative policy positions. 

Maureen Craig and Jennifer Richeson conducted three studies in which white Americans were presented with information about the racial demographic shifts that have led the U.S. Census Bureau to project that “racial minority groups will make up a majority of the U.S. national population in 2042, effectively creating a so-called ‘majority-minority’ nation.” 

In the first study, self-identifying political independents were randomly asked to learn about the majority-minority racial shift in California or about how the number of Hispanics in the United States is now roughly equal to the number of African-Americans. They were then asked questions about their political party leanings and ideology. 

The result was that, “[d]espite being self-identified political independents, respondents who were asked about the [majority-minority] racial shift reported being somewhat more conservative than did respondents” who were asked the less salient question about Hispanics being roughly equally to African-Americans. 

In the second study, Craig and Richeson had participants read either about the majority-minority racial shift or a non-racial national shift in geographic mobility in order to determine whether tendency to endorse conservative positions is limited to race-related policies, like those presented in the first study. Again, they then asked participants about their political party leanings and ideology, and the results was that “making the U.S. racial shift salient led to greater endorsement of conservative policies, compared with making a nonracial societal shift salient.”

I am not sure that this is something that could be considered terribly surprising. 

A desire to preserve and defend one's people has been a driving force all through history. And conservatism is all about protecting the Caucasian people's grip on power in this country, and oppressing those who are of another ethnicity.

In fact that innate desire is why armies in olden times raped the women of their defeated enemies in an attempt to pollute their bloodline and essentially screw them out of existence.

That is also why religions often forbid the use of birth control, and promote large families. It is all an attempt to gain or retain power.

The bigger your army, the longer you exist.

So these days the army of white people, who have held power in this country since its inception, are finding themselves becoming outnumbered.

That has caused panic, and in turn I think it helps to explain a lot of the vitriol directed at our President, and a lot of the increased gun sales as well.

The frightening part is that as these people become more and more upset about the future of their race, one needs to be concerned as to what lengths they might be willing to go to preserve their place at the top of the food chain.

Mitt Romney's "A Promise of America" or, as it will be known from this day forward, "A Whiter Shade of Pale."

"Americans are tired of being tired. To all of the thousands of good and decent Americans I've met, who want nothing more than a better chance, a fighting chance, hold on a little longer. A better America begins tonight."

Yes a better America that apparently is ONLY filled with white folks.

Here's a fun game.  It's called find the brown people.

Give up? Well don't feel bad, there aren't any!

You see in Mitt Romney's version of a "better America" there are no more darkies taking the "good and decent American's" jobs.  And there is certainly NO black man sitting in the nation's WHITE House.

In other words America is back in the hands of its native population, the white people who killed the Indians for it.  Just like the Caucasian, blue eyed Jesus always intended.

"Vote Mitt Romney! Because pigmentation and patriotism simply do NOT go together!"

(H/T to the Daily Kos and Ego Trip Land.)

National treasure Dr. Maya Angelou weighs in on the Obama presidency, now and moving forward.

Photo courtesy of The Obama Diary.

Courtesy of the Guardian:

"I think we are going to see a number of people who say: 'I have no racial prejudice in my heart, not in my conversation,'" Angelou says. "But in the next few months, as we wind up to the double campaign, I tell you we are going to see some nastiness, some vulgarity, I think. They'll pull the sheets off." 

It looks like Dr. Angelou, who has vast experience with racism in America, is also painfully aware of how just how ugly things will get for President Obama and the Democrats this November.

And how does this civil right warrior judge the success of America's first African American President?

Obama has critics and doubters. Angelou, the sage of black America, now 83, has no time for them. "I think he has done a remarkable job, knowing how much he has been opposed," she says. "Every suggestion he makes, the Republicans en masse fight against him or don't vote at all." It's about him being a Democrat and being the first black president, she says.

Reflecting on that presidency, what did she expect? "I was hoping for the best. And I think I have gotten the best from him." What of his detractors? "Those are people who didn't see the morass into which he stepped." He is America's president. But he also describes himself as America's first black president. 

That, says Angelou, speaking from her home in North Carolina, has had an extraordinary impact on black America. "His physical self, just being there, his photograph in the newspapers as president of the United States; that has done so much good for the spirit of the African American. We see more and more children wanting to be like President Obama, wanting to go to school."

You know I am not sure if I am more enlightened than most, or if it is simply because I am used to seeing Barack Obama as our President, but I rarely think of him as black anymore. (Well that is until somebody on the Right says something incredibly racist of course.)

In fact, to borrow one of Stephen Colbert's ongoing gags, when I look at him I "don't see color"." Or the First Lady either for that matter.

And in the end I believe that will be the ongoing legacy left by Barack Obama.

To many, especially those from the South,  he may appear to be shockingly incongruous with their idea of how the President of this country is supposed to appear.

His darker pigment may even seem an affront to their senses.

But after his two terms are over, the door will forever be open to the next non-white leader of the free world to seamlessly take up residence in the White House.

And you know THAT might be at the root of the incredible anger inspired by this President from those firmly ensconced in the Right Wing.

In a manner of speaking, President Obama has served as the canary in the mineshaft. And once he emerges on the other side from this incredibly challenging experience, others who never thought they had any hope of attaining that highest of offices, will be inspired to set their feet on that path as well.

Which of course will mean that the days of domination by the Caucasians in America, will come to an end.

So in many ways the future of the Presidency does not only appear promising, it also appears multi-ethnic.

Did you hear that sound? That is the sound of lily white assholes puckering in frustration all along the Mason-Dixon line. Kind of gratifying isn't it?