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June 23, 2011 · 8:23 AM

Jean-phillippe’s: The Mossback Theory

I recommend reading regular Fifth Column commenter jean-philippe‘s post entitled:The Mossback Theory.  Here’s an excerpt:

One, among progressives, that he’s a mediocre, spineless, complacent leader who accomplished very little after promising hope and change. A weak politician unable to deliver a decent healthcare reform with public, universal healthcare, like 86 countries already have. A passive president who witnessed the oil spill and the Tucson shooting without doing anything. An impressionable man who caved in to agree to let the wealthies keep outrageous tax cuts. A loser so infuriating that he has been able to anger the dullest man in America.

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June 4, 2010 · 12:19 AM

Post-racial America – James Byrd all over again: Black SC man shot to death, body dragged 11 miles

In the wake of the previous post, I found this post while researching a link for the term “post-racial”.  I cannot type anything else to say…it’s heartbreaking and wrong!

Pam’s House Of Blend

We must weep at how  the sickness of hate still flows freely. How can we, as human beings, do such things to one another?

The shooting death of a black man whose body was dragged for several miles is being investigated as a possible hate crime after the arrest of a white man he worked with, South Carolina’s state police chief said.

Gregory Collins, 19, is charged with murder and made his first court appearance Thursday. No bond was set and he did not yet have an attorney, Newberry County Magistrate Ron Halfacre said.

…Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said Collins and Hill spent most of Tuesday together and were at Collins’ mobile home late Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning when Hill was shot.

…The tree-lined road along which authorities say Hill’s body was dragged for nearly 11 miles winds through hilly areas before opening up into gated properties of large country homes interspersed with older farmhouses. On Thursday, a foot-wide dark stain was visible in the right hand lane of the asphalt roadway, a mark authorities planned to wash away later in the afternoon.

Foster said Collins then attached a nylon rope around Hill’s body and began dragging it behind his truck, apparently until the rope snapped several miles later.

I just don’t know what to say. There was this tidbit that will need further investigation.

Hill and Collins worked together at a chicken processing plant in Newberry County, Lloyd said. Neither man had a serious criminal record. There was some other evidence that linked the men that [State Law Enforcement Division director Reggie] Lloyd did not want to discuss.

Matt Comer at QNotes has more.

Lloyd was not readily available for comment, but Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster told quotes there was no evidence indicating a romantic or sexual relationship between the men. Foster said the two men were acquaintances and worked together. Collins and Hill had spent most of the day and evening together at Collins’ home on Tuesday and into early Wednesday morning.

 

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· 12:02 AM

SC senator: We’ve ‘got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.’

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more shocking statement from a government official since I was a kid coming of age and political awareness in the 60′s.  This is actually very shocking to me.  I suppose a fake apology will be rendered tomorrow and then back to business as usual until the next disgusting bigot comes out with something else.

In this country free speech includes hateful words like that of the very disgusting South Carolina State Senator Jake Knotts ( a Republican of course.) 

So the vitriol and hatred goes on and on and will continue until the POTUS ends his term.  What a sad commentary about our country in these times.  Did some one mention a “post-racial” society after Obama’s election?  Not hardly.   It breaks my heart to read this stuff…but it’s out there and should be reported.  The ignorance of people like Knotts, a public official is astounding.  Yet I’m seeing more and more politicians out there on the state and federal level who haven’t got a clue.  What color is the sky in their world?

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Today, the Christian Broadcasting Network published a story about Nikki Haley, the frontrunner to become South Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial nominee, saying that she “recently changed the language on her website to reflect a more Christian tone.” The story said that although Haley has “gone out of her way to make sure people know she is a Christian,” she was raised in the Sikh faith and placed more emphasis on that tradition when she ran for the state legislature in 2004. This evening in an interview with Pub Politics, state Sen. Jake Knotts (R-SC) — who is supporting a different candidate — slammed Haley by using a racial slur:

We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.

The South Carolina Republican Party has issued a statement condemning Knott’s remarks, saying, “Senator Knotts should apologize for his inappropriate comments, so that we can put this unfortunate incident behind us and focus on issues important to moving our state forward.”

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