ongoing racist bullshit in arizona thread

"I am not a racist individual," City Councilman Steve Blair said on a his radio show last month, "but...

when I grew up we had four black families - who I have been very good friends with for years

classic signposts or what

Man, Ebert these days just has a writing voice like ... I dunno. He's come out into this sort of plainspoken-Midwestern hard-won-wisdom voice where even when he's making a pretty conventional point, it gets me in the gut.

xpost - the best part of that is the unfortunate wording of "we had four black families"

ebert's always been a very -- very -- gifted writer.

I somehow never knew that Roger Ebert was such an all-around wonderful person, and not just "the movie guy", until like 6 months back. But he has quickly become a favorite.

iirc, his movie criticism tends to veer into broader cultural criticism. he isn't frank rich, in that respect (i.e., made the jump from entertainment criticism to opinion pieces), but he's no stranger to addressing broader social issues.

Eberts the man!

He is a dude (and apparently dated my step-aunt in the '70s).

Yeah. And I had no idea he was in SDS!

(that stands for Suzy's Date Society)

that ebert piece is very affecting.

watching the youtube of that radio host kinda made me sick.

"Personally, I think it's pathetic," he says. "You have changed the ambience of that building to excite some kind of diversity power struggle that doesn't exist in Prescott, Arizona. And I'm ashamed of that."

worst line of all imo

some kind of diversity power struggle that doesn't exist in Prescott, Arizona

some kind of
diversity power
struggle
that
doesn't exist
in
Prescott, Arizona

because having non-white people in a painting is obviously an attempt to create a "diversity power struggle"

ffs

Damn and now border patrol agents are killing Mexicans for throwing rocks over the border!!

T.J. Bonner, president of the union representing Border Patrol agents, said rock throwing aimed at Border Patrol agents is common and capable of causing serious injury.
"It is a deadly force encounter, one that justifies the use of deadly force," Bonner said.

This country is fucking embarrassing sometimes.

if you don't like it, leave, asshole

just kidding, this country fuckin blows

DUH IM AMERICA I DONT WANT SOCIALIST DOCTORS BECAUSE THE TEEVEE MAN TOLD ME SO BUT LET ME KEEP MY MEDICAID DERP DERP DERP

now i'm not a racist individual

but seriously guys....

black people

is basically what he said

and then the classic "some of my best friends are black"

And he can't tell the diff btwn black people and mexican people. WTG guy.

"some of the people I have are black friends"

"'friends'"

I am no racist, but the artist KNEW those kids were Mud Peoples when he threw them all up in our lillywhite faces.

man ebert is really a hero

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/arpaio_backs_az_state_treasurers_plan_to_create_te.php

Dean Martin, Arizona state treasurer and Republican candidate for governor, is pushing a plan that would create "tent cities" to house convicted illegal immigrants, modeled after notorious anti-immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio's set-up in his own Maricopa County.

In an interview with TPM, Martin described how the tent cities would provide "inexpensive temporary housing" that could save the state enough money to deploy troops down to the border.

Has anybody died of heatstroke in Arpaio's tent city? Seems inevitable.

https://coreycr0708.wikispaces.com/file/view/Order_9066.jpg/34427571/Order_9066.jpg

Arpaio needs to go to fucking jail like YESTERDAY. Hate him so goddamn much.

Real talk.

It's like God decided just for laughs to let a James Ellroy character exist IRL and gave him teflon skin just for good measure.

http://thenationalrazor.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/deanmartin1.jpg

hi there. i'm state treasurer dean martin, and i'm running for governor.

Reminds me of the vampire-hating preacher in True Blood.

reminds me of ricky gervais!

his name is sweet lips

aw ebert

Yeah, it isn't racist, but still:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phTwfedn9RA

oh, he's reluctant to compare himself to george washington or abraham lincoln.

good to know.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/25/arizona.immigrants.drugs/index.html?hpt=T1

Well, we all know that the majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules," Brewer said. "They're coming across our borders in huge numbers. The drug cartels have taken control of the immigration.

"So they are criminals. They're breaking the law when they are trespassing and they're criminals when they pack the marijuana and the drugs on their backs."

wow! it would be so exciting if this was true. unfortunately she doesn't seem able to produce any sort of source, proof, evidence, factual basis, anything. which is surprising since you'd think arizona law enforcement would be able to produce all kinds of statistics given the proportion of the budget most arizona municipalities throw in. she's an idiot. she wasn't even elected. she's a godsend to the republicans in arizona.

lol at this

Arizona republican primary is such a race to the bottom.

Persecution against Japanese was against legal immigrants btw.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/az-gop-mailer-dem-is-letting-illegal-immigrants-shoot-up-our-neighborhoods.php

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/yuma-az-mailer-original.jpg
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/yuma-az-mailer2-original.jpg

mad photoshop skills

It is so weird, there's all these totally homemade looking signs on many corners in town saying that some or another politician opposes SB 1070. For me that's a bonus but I'm pretty sure these signs are saying it is a reason to not vote for that politician.

who is how's life anyway (assuming it's a reg)

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sorry zonies. your nazis are a pretty intense breed though.

damn, i don't think i've caught onto any of your names since, kkvgz. i liked that one anyway and never had the vajazzle association.

i've been fucking up all over with the screennames.

what a disaster

Arizona!

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/arizona_ken_bennett_obama_birth_certificate_birther.php

Bennett, the state’s No. 2 elected official just below Gov. Jan Brewer (R), said his investigation isn’t personal. He said the reason he started looking into it is because he got more than 1,200 emails asking him to do so after Arpaio’s investigation came out.

Hey, can we coordinate an effort to send him 1,201 emails asking him to die in a fire?

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/20/554471/aclu-emails-from-author-of-sb-1070-prove-racial-motivation/

“Battles commence as Mexican nationalists struggle to infuse their men into American government and strengthen control over their strongholds. One look at Los Angeles with its Mexican-American mayor shows you Vincente Fox’s general Varigossa commanding an American city.”

"Varigossa"

“Corruption is the mechanism by which Mexico operates. Its people spawn more corruption wherever they go because it is their only known way of life.”

“Tough, nasty illegals and their advocates grow in such numbers that law and order will not subdue them. They run us out of our cities and states. They conquer our language and our schools. They render havoc and chaos in our schools.”

“We are much like the Titanic as we inbreed millions of Mexico’s poor, the world’s poor and we watch our country sink.”

qfjfc

“I’m racist because I don’t want to be taxed to pay for a prison population comprised of mainly Hispanics, Latinos, Mexicans or whatever else you wish to call them.”

“I’m a racist because I believe the News Media has a duty to tell us the names and race of criminals.”

“I’m a racist because I object to having to pay higher sales tax and property tax to build more schools for the illegitimate children of illegal aliens.”

“I’m a racist because I dislike having to push one for English and/or listening to a message in Spanish.”

"the emails, acquired through a public records request, are to and from the author of SB 1070, recalled Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce (R)."

are the quotes from Pearce, then, or are they excerpts from emails that were written TO Pearce?

good question, i didn't catch that

i'm looking through the emails (http://www.azcentral.com/kpnx/pdf/Pochada-pearce-emails.pdf) and yep, he wrote all of that stuff. wow. people elected this guy. representative democracy.

the problem with representative democracy is that it looks like you

at least the dude was recalled

“I’m a racist because I dislike having to push one for English and/or listening to a message in Spanish.”

Fuck man this is annoying enough as a facebook meme, acting like having 3 seconds added to your IVRU message is some unparalleled burden, but as a reason to legislate something like this....asdgbv/oagbviujsfw vc ufraw

http://azstarnet.com/business/local/az-senate-businesses-citing-religion-should-be-able-to-refuse/article_ec0ebb05-a8a2-5fc3-bc64-217ef180f44f.html

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/28/joe-arpaios-racist-roast-and-other-stories-from/198268

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne laid down the basic comic framework for his fellow roasters, totaling a dozen conservative dignitaries of local and national reputation. "Apologies to the Civic Center," said Horne, "but half of the kitchen staff was arrested tonight upon arrival of Joe and his deputies. Because of a budget crunch, the sheriff's cutting way back. No more green baloney for prisoners -- just an extra beating at suppertime. Over the years, Joe's touched many people. We know because many are now pressing charges."

Chuckling throughout Horne's routine on stage next to Arpaio was Russell Pearce, a recalled state senator with a documented fondness for neo-Nazi websites, and the primary architect of Arizona's controversial immigration bill S.B. 1070. Pearce smiled as his one-time ally in the 1070 fight, Arizona State Rep. John Kavanagh, began his set asking, "How many Hispanics did you pull over on the way over here, Arpaio?" He later added, "All these years I figured he was rounding up Hispanics because you had a grudge from [fighting in] the Spanish-American War. But if you were in the Korean War, how come you're not rounding up Asians?" Kavanagh was doing a bit about the difficulties of dining out with Arpaio -- "When we go into a restaurant, most of the wait staff and cooks dive out the back window" -- when he spotted a passing waiter who appeared to be Hispanic holding a platter of stuffed chickens, and screamed, "There's a brave one! Get him! Sic 'em!"

holy fuck

https://www.azag.gov/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/arizona_immigration_checkpoint_criticism_border_patrol_harasses_people_and.html

Crossing an interior immigration checkpoint in Arizona is a puzzling experience. A curious visitor from a peaceful foreign country driving around the state who happened upon a checkpoint for the first time might well wonder, on the basis of the cursory questions and inspections, why, exactly, the checkpoints are present. Visitors from countries wracked by military rule, coups, or civil wars, where checkpoints are routine instruments of control—and sometimes sites of violence and extortion—might feel more at home.

When an agent gives the OK—a nod, a “have a good day, now”—a traveler cannot help but feel a surge of virtue or a rush of relief.

peace god

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/15/republican-forced-sterilization/

"nothing conservative about facism"

fascism otoh

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/arizona-teacher-fired-after-25-years-for-defending-student-from-racist-bullying/

http://www.12news.com/story/news/local/valley/2015/07/24/judge-chastises-arpaios-lawyers-for-withholding-records/30648363/

well shit

This is the least racist bullshit you've ever seen.

knew this was coming, still so fuckin angry

what a farce

so i guess he's legalized racial profiling?

not quite. he's simply stating that in his view arpaio's willful, knowing and deliberate racial profiling, pursued consistently against thousands of people over decades, deserves clemency for unknown and unstated reasons.

thx for clarifying

Accepting a pardon is an explicit admission that you were guilty of the underlying crime, right?

You might think, but, no.