i'd kinda like to see Luda on the $10 bill, though.

Even if you don't think it's racist (and I do think it so), you have to agree that it's stupid.

I love the Black National Anthem.

It probably doesn't matter. I just can't see battleground state white voters voting for a black candidate with a muslim-sounding name, no matter what voters are willing to say to pollsters. When it comes time to pull the lever or punch the chad, white voters will likely pick the "comfortable old shoe" and not the slick shiny black oxford.

I thought this sort of B. HUSSAIN Obma, the hip-hop president was the domain of a very small set of nutjobs, but having done a little surfing today of the dank side of the web, I think it might involve more than I previously thought.

It's a nice way for lower-class whites to have someone to feel superior to. ('low-class' not only in economic terms, that is).

What is the paper that this jack-ass works for? I tried all the link and am unable to find the name of the paper.

Isn't it amazing that this kind of tripe even appears outside the nut-letter column in newspapers that aren't explicitly run by white supremacists?

Yeah, I don't know Vincent, that's a pretty racist read to my ear - and I don't think I am someone who is on hair trigger for accusing other people of racism.

For the next month, we will hear a boatload of racially tinged and outrightly racist statements from the McCain campaign and its unofficial supporters. I expect Palin to carry the good old down home burden of wink, wink racism for McCain/Palin. Wink, wink fits her style better and keeps McCain clean (he hopes).

As I think Brad DeLong recently said, the Republican Party needs to be burned and razed to the ground and the furrows sprinkled with salt.

Nothing less do these bastards deserve. Nothing less than total extermination for what they've done to this country and the manner in which they want to stay in power.

For me, Obama has the attention of not only Blacks in America, but the world right now. In a very huge way what Obama said “This election is about you� is going to ring very true to a large part of this Black, Brown, White electorate here and abroad. The prominence of a Black man in the position of President invokes a powerful message into a free wheeling Black culture biased by the far right.

These are a new times, with this new Media called an Internet loaded with free space to address this very issue, will happen. It has always been my personal intuitive feeling that huge political and cultural forces have influence the Black community in a negative way. Actually, with deliberate intent to capitalize on the Black community to move forward, tinkering with the progress all the way.

Heaven knows and now a huge portion of the electorate knows, the Republicans, that large portion of the people will accept a Black leadership if it takes that character to get this system back to fundamentals. Obama appears to have that energy and spirit. For me, I count on his experience in teaching the Constitution Theory to apply it in a fresh way developing peace.

Also understanding the indicators for a natural peaceful society from his experience in community development. Actually, that observation all America has witnessed about Reverend Wright is an advantage to sense or recognize some thing is off or needs to be corrected. For what it’s worth Obama worked through the issue in a respectful way. That could very well be a powerful asset in the solutions with our Middle East friends as well as our domestic problems. Religion seems to center stage and core problem with those Iraqi people for thousands of years. Perhaps when George Bush said “God Bless America� in time and with God speed this maybe Obama’s destiny. If it is George Bush might very well be asking that same God for forgiveness in screwing over Americans knowingly with just the intent to make money. That is the paramount of racism, use everyone.

Bobby May's email address:
bobbyleemay@yahoo.com

All this does is prove that despite all their posturing to the contrary, the GOP is still the party of racially prejudiced bigot.

Yeah, it's trashy stuff and that's what's under the surface of the "respectable" Republican establishment - the slitherings of the "squeal like a pig vote." As for 'divert more foreign aid to Africa so "the Obama family there can skim enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream.' - Is it really true that Obama's brother (or half brother) is poor in Africa, and the Obamas won't help him now? Might be worth fixing up for PR as well as fraternal obligation if so.

It never ceases to amaze me how much fear is built into this kind of rhetoric. This guy may be trying to be funny (to him and his kind), but it is clear that he is very, very scared.

A black man runs for president and all of a sudden his entire world is threatened.

It would be pitiful if it wasn't so dangerous.

Can anyone make out or find out what the picture in the PDF shows?

This is stupid stuff. Similarly, it is stupid to accord any bandwidth to it. This is the equivalent of giving space to a rebuttal of Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin.

This used to be a blog that had standards. Please embrace those standards and don't waste our time with yahoo bafflegab.

It would be pitiful if it wasn't so dangerous.

Oh, it can be both. "I think I've did a pretty good job of boiling his positions down. . ." Oh, yeah, Bobby May, you've did a great job.

This man owes me a royalty, & a slightly larger one to the man from whom I stole the line:

Do not allow Kwame Kilpatrick to turn the Red Room into the Champagne Room, I railed. Nobody listened. Nobody, but those who want to make some coin off of my musings, given gratis.

To Bobby May, I say, rot in hell.

This is stupid stuff. Similarly, it is stupid to accord any bandwidth to it. This is the equivalent of giving space to a rebuttal of Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin.

I didn't realize that Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin were directly employed by their local Republican parties. Or are you not seeing the difference between a private citizen saying horrible things and the treasurer of the county's Republican Party saying horrible things?

Doesn't look like the paper has a website. Here's all I could find:
http://www.buchanancounty.info/The_Voice.html

This was -- as far as Virginia goes -- McCain's 'macaca moment,' and coupled with his brother's joke about "Northern Virginia being Communist Country"
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hby_5Pku5ywmfC_rEtEV5BcYKR5gD93KDFPO0
(also picked up by the WaPo in their 'Virginia politics section') should shove Virginia into the Obama ranks for good.

If McCain doesn't get rid of Bobby May, and the story starts making the rounds -- as it will (Keith, a special Worst Person Award, okay) -- it might even finally finish the walking corpse of the McCain campaign.

Remember, while there are a lot of racists out there, most of them were already Republicans and wouldn't have voted for a white Democrat. And a lot of fence-sitters are proud enough of not being racist that this will swing them to Obama. Not to mention that the percentage of blacks voting just jumped a little as a result of this.

This is a big one, and unless McCain publicly disavows him in a damn hurry, it will hurt bad.

If anyone wants to read the whole thing, there's a pdf at
http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2008-10/42750415.pdf
Which means that the story is spreading.
(h/t Mark Kleiman)

A black man runs for president and all of a sudden his entire world is threatened.

That's no different than some otherwise very nice people I know who are absolutely certain that if gays are allowed to get state-issued marriage licenses for same sex marriages, for some reason that will result in traditional intergender marriages being threatened and even destroyed.

It takes special training to be so stupid and bigoted.

These idiots are right up there with the Japanese soldiers holed up in their island caves and still fighting for the emperor in 1948.

WE OWE NOTHING TO NON WHITES!
Injun reparations? You lost the f---ing war. Don't you get it yet?
Black reparations? Here's a one-way boat ticket back to your cow shit covered grass huts.
Starving illegals? Go home. Stop screwing your sisters and spend more time planting corn.
Oppressed in Chinese? Go home and overthrow the bastards. Wanna buy a bow and arrow? With eggroll?

Oh, wait, there's a black man running for president?? Key-rist, to watch him stump, you'da thunk you was seeing Kerry with a decent tan. Isn't the ultimate irony of this racist bullsh*t that the wingnutters are directing their fear-mongering venom at a true Oreo? I mean, Eminem is "blacker" than the esteemed candidate from Harvard. The day the country elects a guy like Avon Barksdale to national office is the day I'll truly believe Americans, including Democrat/liberals, are not fundamentally racist.

And Stringer Bell will be the Karl Rove. So say I!

Not so fast JingoJones! I saw Obama in Newport News VA Saturday. He said, about health care being so screwed up: ~ "Not only is it not right, it ain't right!" See, he's more hip than you think.

Not only that, he has a fan in a big pink limo, my GF saw it riding away, for real-do.

BTW, Palin fibbed about the Sudan divestiture, I heard it on ? Matt Y.

Now, he may not be a racist. Maybe he's a non-racist racist, as described by Nick Kristof.

Robin Williams did a rather haunting depiction (animated skit) of uncoscious fears folks harbor with the prospect of a black man becoming President.

He indicated many can't handle the idea of an eloquent black man, and then did a skit of what folks really fear. It was funny, but I'm afraid very close to the truth.

It was on the Letterman Show--toward the end of his interview, on Sept. 4 of this year. Found on part II of YouTube video, I believe.

Covert racism is now making it's shift fast and furious to overt racism with the likes of Bobby May. And I imagine as Nov. 4 gets closer, we'll see more and more blatant, no holds barred racism coming out. Brace yourself.

Any intelligent person that votes for McCain just because Obama is black, is a moral coward.

I've got to agree w/ MissMudd: here's Lift Every Voice and Sing:

Lift every voice and sing,
'Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on 'til victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
'Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.

If you get a chance, listen to Bruce's inspirational speech and mini-concert for Obama (to help get out the vote in PA). It really lifted my spirits.

Sure do hope the Obama campaign will be allowed to use clips from this in future ads/ rallies.

Should also use clips from the AFL-CIO spokesperson who delivered a fantastic speech for Obama wherein he brought up the R word.

They need to start bringing a screen and a small film with them to show at every stump speech.

well, at least it's not as obvious as the teacher in florida that wrote on his class room black board "change = come help a n*gger get elected"

The other day an elderly widow confided to me hushed tones, "I'm not voting for McCain. He's too much like Bush. I'm going to vote for that colored boy." And them glanced around fearful that anyone else heard.

Cultural paranoia runs deep.

I welcome this. Just further evidence the GOP is imploding. This *is* the best they've got now. Those at the top are calling him a terrorist. Those at the bottom are calling him the n-word.

Let them. Let them shout it from the roof tops. Let them say it on every evening news program.

It won't work, and it will motivate the Democratic base in a way that they have never seen.

It's already going to be a landslide. The more ensconced in racism the GOP becomes, the bigger the landslide.

Sorry, Prup, no McCain disavowal. Bobbie May is small-time garden slug. If McCain disavowed every one of his bigots, he'd spend all his time disavowing.

And I don't care if an elderly widow thinks of him as a "colored boy" or Snow White so long as she votes for him. Every vote counts, whatever the reason. I'd love to think in terms of landslide but it isn't going to happen that way.

But the question is: WHAT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED THIS FILTH???

That litany of filth just defies belief.

Back in the days of silent pictures, back in the days of "Birth Of a Nation," how-to manuals for would-be screenwriters (or writers of "photoplays") warned against using these kinds of racial stereotypes and this kind of racial divisiveness.

Anywhere moderately civilized, people would have been appalled by this racist creep 80 years ago...100 years ago...150 years ago.

Bobby May has spouted his hatred for liberals and Democrats for the last 25 years. It's no wonder that he gets by with it, because Buchanan County is where the former Sen George Allen had his "Macaca" moment at the Breaks Interstate Park. He felt comfortable among his supporters to exhibit his racist side because of where he was. The region has a long, well known, history of being racist. A lot of good people will do the right thing and vote for Obama, but it will be almost impossible for Obama to carry this region.

Sadly I know of at least one fairly intelligent female voter who already believes that she can't vote for Obama because he might support reparations. Naturally I have only recently been able to convince her otherwise and now this pops up argh...

But the question is: WHAT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED THIS FILTH???

Try this one The Virginia Mountaineer

This seems to be the only paper in Buchanan County, VA but I couldn't find it in their archives.

Bobby May also writes for this, The Voice, but I see no archives online there.

Guys like this prove to me that the South isn't going to ever really change. It might put lipstick on the pig, but 300 years of white supremacy and a pirate's world view doesn't go away. This worthless scum reminds me of those toothless morons with guns I used to outrun down in Sunflower County 44 years ago.

It's too bad my great-great-grandfathers didn't cleanse that swamp permanently of the traitors and the trash when they had the chance.

"allow them to free their goats" -

Notice that when it's Sarah Palin subsistence-hunting moose in Alaska, that's evidence of Joe-sixpack small-town virtue that we must all reverence, but when it's someone in rural Africa doing the same thing, it's suitable for mockery.

I live in Roanoke, Va., which is certainly close enough to Buchanan to be uncomfortable. And I'm white.

Two nights ago, when walking downtown, my wife and I passed three young men who were making fun of an Obama bumper sticker. Here, verbatim, is what I heard them shout in a fairly large crowd of people:

1st man: "Obama? Bull shit!"

2nd man: "More like 'NObama!'"

3rd man: "Mother fuckin' KKK will make sure of that!"

And then they high-fived each other.

I've been depressed ever since. That a trio of rednecks can still feel comfortable joking aloud in the company of strangers about the potential assassination by a hate group of our country's one real hope for redemption, because he's black, just doesn't seem possible.

I've spent way too much time checking out blogs and news stories and youtube videos and whatnot lately. And one thing that has struck me is that the entire rest of the world, every corner of it according to posts from far-flung individuals, is holding its collective breath for November 4th. They see our duty as voters to be pure and simple. Get Obama into office and put him to work.

For the last few months I have had faith that our nation, and especially my region of it, could transcend the racial divide and do something good. Bobby May's bullshit and the hateful attitudes of a few vocal people around me make me question whether this country is really ready. Or whether we even deserve to grow up.

As a small town boy from Southwestern Virginia, I offer my sincerest apologies for the comments of people like May. We are not all so ignorant or evil. But, enough of us are that the rest of us are ashamed.

This is just one more example that McCain and the Republicans are running a "base" campaign instead of one aimed at independent centrists. The accompanying risk from the GOP's perspective is that in their desperation to win the 2008 election at all costs they could doom the GOP for a generation as a national governing party, and confine it to its natural Southern base by exposing for all to see the underlying ugliness of the Republican coalition.

All Republicans are racists. All Democrats are beautiful. If you don't agree, you are a racist.

I wish we could change the national anthem. It's not fair that black people get the good anthem and the rest of us get one that's not even the best song about the war of 1812.

Here is, not Ludacris, but George Clinton's "Paint the White House Black":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxl4lQ8tmdM

Great Stuff, fun were "Lift Up Your Voice and Sing" is noble.

I'm a rural southerner, and Obama supporter.
Some white southerners feel demonized, as well they should, given the apartheid that was the Jim Crow South.
I think they are realizing that the racist stuff is no longer supportable, and very uncool. Some heads will explode when we have a black man sworn in a president.
I predict at least a 40% Democratic vote for President in my own little Appalachian county in Georgia.

Let this guy rant. The South is full of people who grew up hearing this kind of overt racism, followed by declarations of stupidity like "uh, I didn't know it was racist." Now they have a clear choice between a black candidate who makes sense vs the outdated racism of buffoons like Bobby May. And the best they could hope for on the Republican side would be a buffoon like George W. Bush. I just can't see this sort of motivation getting the vote out. Let's hope it rains on election day.

Some interesting context:

Although most of SW Virginia is strongly Republican, it's worth noting that John Kerry won Buchanan County with over 53% of the vote. It's one of the very few locales in Appalachia where Democrats have still been able to win a majority of rural white votes in recent years.

So how did Obama fare in Buchanan County while winning a landslide victory in the VA Democratic primary? Less than 10% of the vote.

Buchanan County is going to be one of those very interesting test cases for the extent to which race plays a role in this election.

Just goes to show you. You can take the boy out of the country, but you can never take the trailer park out of the boy. We now have a new and improved concept of what it means to be white trash.

Bobby May writes for the Voice, NOT the Virginia Mountaineer.