From The Root, a story of local politics that exposes what resides in every conservative enclave in the country:
Apparently unaware of Steve King, Stephen Scalise, Steve Bannon and other Republican Party Steves who are racist as shit, a candidate for the House of Representatives has threatened to bow out of an upcoming Republican forum if a white supremacist running for the same congressional seat is allowed to attend…
And who is the man, a man named Sean M. Donahue, causing all of this ruckus?
A racist.
Donahue is a white supremacist of the highest order. Although we were unable to find the most recent AP racist rankings or the current white supremacist Coaches Poll, you should trust us on this one. Donahue might not make it to the Final Four, but he will definitely be a top seed in the white supremacist 64-team tournament.
In July 2017, Donahue, who is a member of the extremist, white nationalist America Freedom Party, was convicted of making terroristic threats against a Luzerne County, Pa., district attorney. In April 2016, Donahue was convicted of harassment after sending hundreds of emails to county employees. Did I mention he was kinda racist?
Running on a motto of “Gods, Guns, Liberty and Nationalism,” 48-year-old Donahue, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Hazelton, Pa., in 2015, believes, among other things, that:
- The U.S. was created for Americans who chose to worship God through Christianity.
- Freedom of religion is for all forms of Christianity but no other religion, certainly not Islam, voodoo or Satanic worship.
- Black Lives Matter and Antifa (pdf) are organizations that are looking to create an armed insurgency….
An aberration you say?
The ‘mainstream’ GOP candidate trying to distance himself from this horror-show, so ‘don’t paint them all like that’ you say?
Because these are just decent, community and family loving Americans like the rest of us, right?
Hey, they even have a sense of humor, like these folks reported on in the blog The Field Negro:
"A boys basketball team has been kicked out of a Cincinnati-area recreational hoops league for wearing uniforms bearing a sexually suggestive team name on the front and racially objectionable names on the back.
Four weeks into the Cincinnati Premier Youth Basketball League’s season, parents of players on a team from West Clermont, Ohio, saw that the team from Kings Mills, Ohio, against whom their children were playing was named “The Wet Dream Team.” They also noticed that the names on the backs of the high-school-aged boys’ jerseys included phrases like “Knee Grow” and “Coon.”
Tony Rue, a parent of a
West Clermont player, highlighted the eyebrow-raising jerseys in a
lengthy Facebook post asking how such attire, and such a team name, was deemed appropriate for a league that hosts players from grades two through 12…
“This behavior is in no way welcome or tolerated in our schools and community.”" “Kings Local Schools strongly condemns any type of hateful and racist commentary,”
wrote spokesperson Dawn Gould. “This behavior is in no way welcome or tolerated in our schools and community.” wrote spokesperson Dawn Gould. “This behavior is in no way welcome or tolerated in our schools and community.”" statement to WLWT. He noted that the team “offered to cover them up or change,” but that the league still chose to eject the team, “and we have accepted that decision.”"
The team’s coach,
Walt Gill, apologized “to anyone that was offended by the jerseys” in a
statement to WLWT. He noted that the team “offered to cover them up or change,” but that the league still chose to eject the team, “and we have accepted that decision.”
The incident has drawn the attention of the Cincinnati chapter of the NAACP, which wants to have a chat with the people in charge of the rec league.
“This is a teachable moment for [the teen players] to understand how these words are hurtful,” Cincinnati NAACP first vice president Joe Mallory told Cincinnati Fox affiliate WXIX-TV. “They’re inflammatory, and they’re divisive to the entire community. […] It’s everybody’s problem. It’s everybody’s business that when these things happen we all stand up and speak out on it.”
This is 2018, right? And we are still having "teachable moments" about race?
This behavior is in no way welcome or tolerated in our schools and community.
Apparently, it is tolerated, by every parent of every player on that team, by every player on that team, by the coaches, by the folks who printed up the jerseys, by every spectator and league official who sat silent anytime this team took the court. Someone had to complain, formally, to get the league to take action.
This behavior is in no way welcome or tolerated in our schools and community.
Keep saying it.
Still wondering where the Trumps and Sessions and every other other disgustingly racist, misogynist, homophobic, religiously bigoted Republican elected official come from? Wonder who could possibly keep pulling that lever to vote for people like this, over and over, decade after decade.
Just look around, they’re not hard to spot.