What To Do When Your Family Is Wingnutty.

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Tuesday October 16, 2012 · 12:29 PM PDT

2012/10/16 · 12:29

I write this not for myself (seriously) but for a friend who posed this question on Facebook:

This weekend I was informed that my mother is planning to vote for Romney, mostly because she LOVES Paul Ryan. UGH! I know that some of you out there have dealt with this -- what are your suggestions? She needs to know that her vote is basically a giant slap in the face to her daughter's family.

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Monday September 14, 2009 · 12:20 PM PDT

2009/09/14 · 12:20

So after reading this diary this morning I kinda lost it. Here is appeal number umpteeth million to white people everywhere. Don't get defensive, get even.

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 10:05 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 10:05

Tim Wise (as usual) recently nailed a discussion about race and health care. Namely, why is it, really, that people are so against this program? The answer? Because overt government support of Americans has become so racially coded in the American mind that such programs equal "helping lazy welfare queens" or giving more entitlements to "illegal aliens" and, once again, Republicans and America, Inc. have convinced what I think are a lot of well-meaning white Americans to vote against their own interests in favor of sustaining a necessary sense of superiority through racial paranoia.

This statement is a generalization; clearly you can oppose healthcare without the racial paranoia. But the racial taint is here. It is visceral. And, dear white reader, I'm asking for your help to try to knock it back.

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Sunday February 08, 2009 · 4:20 PM PST

2009/02/08 · 16:20

The never ending ignorance of the GOP is not new, and really should no longer be shocking, but when John McCain said on Friday:

“$50 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts — all of us are for the arts,” McCain said. “Tell me how that creates any significant number of jobs?"

It raised a few hackles. My partner is a playwright, one of my good friends is a working musician, and as a huge supporter of the arts, I was a bit dumbfounded.

My friend Liesl Tommy wrote a letter to Senator McCain in response:

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 4:45 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 16:45

and you can't grow up there without having been raised thinking that Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the best poets in the world. And knowing that Barack Obama was going to be president 12 years ago. :)

In the spirit of our fabulous new day, the dawn of this new time, I want to share my favorite Gwendolyn Brooks poem with you.

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 1:31 PM PDT

2008/10/31 · 13:31

I just received the following text from my girlfriend, who grew up and currently lives in Newark, NJ:

Voted today! [she is coming to work with me in OH tomorrow] I was in the county clerk building elevator with another black woman who had her ballot. We looked at each other and started crying.

This election has and will continue to change lives.

The WASSUP Men Return...for Obama

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Saturday October 25, 2008 · 3:54 PM PDT

2008/10/25 · 15:54

I recently wrote about how amazingly gifted and artistic folks on the left are and how I am constantly impressed and amused and moved by the artistic expressions that this election has elicited in people.

What kills me about it (in the best way) is how folks take the familiar and twist it just a little bit. It catches our attention, keeps it, and then makes us think about the different outcome. Classic fabulous art.

Remember this?

It looks like this now:

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 2:50 PM PDT

2008/10/23 · 14:50

I never thought that religious fundamentalism was a great friend of art or humor. One thing this election has shown me is that we make some damn fine music, art and we are funny as hell.

So when I saw this clip, it reminded me of that.

http://www.youtube.com/...

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 1:13 PM PDT

2008/10/14 · 13:13

I made the huge mistake of following a link to the always insightful Michelle Malkin. I followed because she has recently posted an entry on her website "making the case" that whatever bad behavior has occurred at McCain rallies is no match for the insanity fomenting in the bowels of the foaming at the mouth left who have long called for the head of George Bush, etc.

Her first leading examples are of Madonna and Sandra Bernhardt.

Um...ok.

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 3:34 PM PDT

2008/10/13 · 15:34

My friend Harold Moss is an amazing artist. He recently made this lovely piece of animation:

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 11:47 AM PDT

2008/10/10 · 11:47

There is a lot of indignation about the most recent attempts to "otherize" Obama. But aren't there real responses that real folks (like the ones on Daily Kos) should be taking responsibility for?

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 8:54 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 08:54

I have a business card in my office. It is black and shiny, and in the middle, in about 20 point font are sparkly silver letters that say: RACE CARD. I love this card because it points to the absurdity of our political connundrum these days: to even point out that blackness is different than whiteness in our country race is now always already a bizarre tactic to shame white people everywhere. As though discussing race can only be leveraged by non-whites against whites.

But this election, there is an opportunity. A 50-state strategy, of sorts, to do much more than gain electoral votes.

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For The White Person Who Wants to Be My Friend (Healthcare Version)

Dear Senator McCain, FYI, Art IS a Job.

I Grew Up in Hyde Park.

Bursting Into Tears With the Ballot

The WASSUP Men Return...for Obama

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Burning the Race Card, Talking Race.