Showing posts with label supreme court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supreme court. Show all posts

Friday, July 02, 2010

"Where were you on Christmas Day?"

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(Skip to 3:22 for the not-so-subtle bigotry.)


"You have a very different belief system than most of the people who come from where I come from."


What?

The nerve of those Republicans. Lindsey Graham, I'd like to know where you were on Christmas Day, you putz.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Stephen Colbert is an it-getter.

The Colbert Report: The Word - Neutral Man's Burden
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He gets it.

"In America, white is neutral. Now, for years, Band-Aids [sic] came in only one color: white person. It's standard person color. In fact, it is so standard, that when I was a kid, in Crayola boxes, it was the color called 'flesh.' Now most Americans accept this [Stephen points to the back of his white person colored hand] as neutral without thinking about it. And that is why the decisions made by all those white Justices were not affected by their experiences. Because their life experiences were neutral . . .

Now I'm sure Asians are neutral in Asia. And Africans are neutral in Africa. And Hispanics are neutral in Hispanica. But folks, it doesn't work here."


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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

"Exactly! A reverse racist!"



"We call it that because it's the opposite of the way you're supposed to be a racist."

Also, no matter what The Today Show (at 4:12) or the Telegraph suggest, Judge Sotomayor's parents did not "immigrate" to New York from Puerto Rico. They moved to New York from Puerto Rico. Like when the Clampetts "loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly. Hills, that is." Or when George and Weezy were "moving on up/To the east side/To a deluxe apartment in the sky." They didn't change countries; they were Americans finding a new, potentially better, place to live.

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