White Underbelly

by digby

I was reading about the latest outrage from Felix “Macaca” Allen’s campaign over at Gilliard’s place and something about his comment tickled my memory. Steve wrote:

They’re clearly worried about the impact of the racist words coming from Allen’s mouth. And even if he didn’t say Macaca/Sand Ni**er/Dune C**n/Haji what came after is worse. “Welcome to America”.

Excuse me. America is no longer just white people. That’s the real insult there. Especially when the kid was born in Virginia, unlike Allen.

I recalled that the empty Codpiece had said something along the same lines a couple of years ago:

There’s a lot of people in the world who don’t believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren’t necessarily — are a different color than white can self-govern.

Felix and Dubya default to the same patronizing, bigoted assumptions. Bush may be less hostile than Felix, but he’s no less racist. “America” to both of these rich, privileged Republican creeps, is white.

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