Michele Bachmann is a Racist. No Need to Pussyfoot Around it.

Stick a fork in her. She's done (metaphorically speaking.)

"In 2002, then-state Sen. Bachmann’s campaign posted a “must-read” list of books on her web site. Included in the list were the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, and a book titled, “Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee,” authored by J. Steven Wilkins. The Lee biography includes this apologetic passage:


Northerners were often shocked and offended by the familiarity that existed as a matter of course between the whites and blacks of the old South. This was one of the surprising and unintended consequences of slavery. Slavery, as it operated in the pervasively Christian society which was the old South, was not an adversarial relationship founded on racial animosity. In fact, it bred on the whole, not contempt, but, over time, mutual respect. This produced a mutual esteem of the sort that always results when men give themselves to a common cause."

Here.

Some people might need more evidence that she's a racist than this. To people of that mind, I would say as follows? What fucking more do you need than the fact she hyped as a "must read" a book that says blacks were better off under slavery than now or when they were in Africa?

That's about as clear cut racist as it gets. Really!

Now she might not be a VIOLENT racist. And I use that word in either the literal or figurative sense. But let's be honest. Not that it is completely out of fashion (have ya heard about the latest southern lynching of a black man? Shit, that shit's still going on people,) but being violently racist is way out of fashion for people who want to pass for respectable people. But the soft bigotry of soft bigotry is alive and well, and running for the GOP nomination. Sickening.