"What is a little bit disconcerting and concerning is the inability for sporting goods stores to keep ammunition in stock," she said. "That tells me the nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways?
"That's why I look at this as almost an imperative. If we don't win at the ballot box, what will be the next step?" (via TPM)
That's Sharron Angle, Harry Reid's Republican opponent in Nevada. Now, read that again and picture a Black person or a person of Arab descent saying it.
Sharron Angle, along with the entire Tea Party, and its champions like Glen Beck and Sarah Palin get away with spewing bizarre violent, hate-filled rhetoric that no coloured person could dare to say without serious consequences.
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