This Is Alabama—We Speak English.

Tim James, a Republican who would like to become governor of Alabama, has a special election message for YOU about his carefully prepared platform on how he will improve the lives of Alabamans:

I wonder how much 30 seconds of bigotry—whoops, I mean business sense—costs these days.

H/t Shakesville

Tim Wise: Protest, Insurgency and the Workings of White Privilege

You preach it, Tim! Look what I found on rad blog Siditty: Imagine: Protest, Insurgency and the Workings of White Privilege

A quote:

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters–the black protesters–spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government. Would these protesters–these black protesters with guns–be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.