# I like that the light is shining on the racists. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 17, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337 "2009-07-17T14:21:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/1 "2009-07-17T14:21:47Z")
And that my secret girlfriend has her part in holding the torch. [I like that Rachel doesn’t yell and lets Buchanan hang himself with his own words.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/rachel-maddow-takes-on-pa_n_237146.html) > [@](#): > > "White men were 100% of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people that signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close to 100% of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country built basically by white folks, who were 90% of the nation in 1960 when I was growing up and the other 10% were African-Americans who had been discriminated against. That’s why. Rise white men! Rise up from under the oppressive thumb of Hispanic judges and Olympic track and field athletes! Take back the country you built with the sweat of other people’s brows! Remember when this country was white and good! Is it me or does Pat remind anyone else of a certain poster here? Not naming names but it starts with an ‘S’ and ends with ‘tarving Artist.’ ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/2 "2009-07-17T14:45:33Z")
Oh, man, I watched that last night and was :dubious:😕:mad::rolleyes::eek::smack:. I think pretty much literally. I loved how she kept saying “108 of 110 Supreme Court Justices have been male, 108 out of 110 have been white” like she was waiting from him to get the ridiculousness of his words, and he never did. It was a thing of…I don’t want to say beauty, because the words coming out of his mouth were ugly as pus, but it was glorious. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/3 "2009-07-17T14:54:03Z")
Yeah, you know what I miss? The days when people were polite and well dressed. I bet you aren’t even wearing your garter belt while you’re posting, are you, **BigGirl**. Whatever happened to class?! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/4 "2009-07-17T14:55:39Z")
A few facts: Percentage of white people 1960: 88.6 Percentage of white people 2000: 75.1 For fun, percentage of white people 1900: 87.9 [Census pdf](http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf) [TeamUSA](http://teamusa.org/athlete/usoc_athletes?sport_type=summer). Scroll down to track and field and look at how there are no white people. Oh wait-- Pat is full of shit! Man, what a shocker! ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/5 "2009-07-17T15:06:22Z")
Hey Buchanan, the problems began when we let the GD Irish into the country. Been downhill since that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/6 "2009-07-17T15:12:02Z")
Wow, threads about racism. I never get tired of them. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/7 "2009-07-17T15:15:51Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Wow, threads about racism. I never get tired of them. Wow, posters who never get tired of threads about racism. I never get tired of them. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/8 "2009-07-17T15:16:14Z")
Enjoy your lucky day, then! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/9 "2009-07-17T15:23:43Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Wow, threads about racism. I never get tired of them. > [@Biggirl](#): > > Wow, posters who never get tired of threads about racism. I never get tired of them. Can’t we just talk about something we can all agree on? Like gun rights or something? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/10 "2009-07-17T15:26:51Z")
There are like, nine hundred threads about racism going on right now…there comes a point when it’s just overkill. Nobody likes racism. Pitting it is pointless; it’s like pitting an earthquake. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/11 "2009-07-17T15:27:59Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Hey Buchanan, the problems began when we let the GD Irish into the country. Been downhill since that. 😉 What can you do? They are _technically_ white people. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/12 "2009-07-17T15:28:53Z")
She’s not pitting racism. She’s pitting Pat Buchanan. Then again, I suppose one could speculate an equivalancy. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/13 "2009-07-17T15:28:54Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Wow, threads about racism. I never get tired of them. I could use a few more of them. It bothers me how much cultural poison I seem to have ingested on this issue in spite of my best efforts so the more that this stays above ground and something that I have to look at every day, the better. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/14 "2009-07-17T15:40:05Z")
[http://www.footnote.com/page/1641\_confederate\_african\_americanscivil\_war/](http://www.footnote.com/page/1641_confederate_african_americanscivil_war/) > [@](#): > > “…And after the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, …reported among the rebel prisoners were seven blacks in Confederate uniforms fully armed as soldiers…” - New York Herald, July 11, 1863. > **[Xoilac TV - Trực Tiếp Bóng Đá HD 24/7 - Xem Xôi Lạc TV #1 VN](https://freelyphotos.com)** > > Xoilac TV trực tiếp bóng đá HD tốc độ cao, Xôi Lạc TV trực tuyến không quảng cáo ở các giải đấu hàng đầu thế giới cùng đội ngũ BLV dày dặn kinh nghiệm. > [@](#): > > The entire body of United States Colored Troops evolved out of the Vicksburg Campaign beginning in April and May of 1863. President Lincoln authorized his Army Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas “to raise as many regiments of blacks as I can,” according to the general’s memoirs. Thomas met with Grant at Milliken’s Bend and gave the orders to formulate 10 black regiments. While seasoned black soldiers from the Louisiana Native Guards were the first to fight against Confederate troops near Pascagoula and Baton Rouge in May, 1863, it was the three black regiments of raw recruits posted at Milliken’s Bend across from Vicksburg that would demonstrate the real fighting prowess of black soldiers. Sooooo… thanks, Pat. ---
**Author:** ![Sinaijon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sinaijon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaijon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/15 "2009-07-17T15:48:20Z")
Just out of curiousity, **Biggirl** , why do \*\*you \*\*think 108 of 110 SC justices have been white? ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/16 "2009-07-17T15:55:51Z")
> [@Sinaijon](#): > > Just out of curiousity, **Biggirl** , why do \*\*you \*\*think 108 of 110 SC justices have been white? They didn’t have enough colored-only bathrooms and drinking fountains at the Supreme Court. Same thing with women: it was just too expensive to build lady’s rooms. Of coures that was back in the day when we tried to balance the budget, so it makes sense to cut costs while you can. I think some of the early SC judges just re-used their white robes and dyed them black. The hoods made nice matching seat cushions. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/17 "2009-07-17T16:01:46Z")
> [@Sinaijon](#): > > Just out of curiousity, **Biggirl** , why do \*\*you \*\*think 108 of 110 SC justices have been white? Because until very recently, the thought of _not_ picking a white person never entered the head of those who pick supreme court judges. A black person (or a woman) was literally (and I don’t mean literally as figuratively) inconceivable. Because of bigotry. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/18 "2009-07-17T16:02:43Z")
> [@Sinaijon](#): > > Just out of curiousity, **Biggirl** , why do \*\*you \*\*think 108 of 110 SC justices have been white? May I ask you the same question, **Sinaijon**? No snark intended at all. It seems to me be a fairly obvious answer but I’d like to see what you think. I’d be happy to share my view as well. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/19 "2009-07-17T16:07:37Z")
The fact that Pat Buchanon gets a national stage on which to pontiifcate his idiocy, on an almost nightly basis, is a disgrace. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337/20 "2009-07-17T16:08:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Wow, threads about racism. I never get tired of them. Things were better back in the fifties. You could be racist and nobody would harass you about it. It was a politer time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-that-the-light-is-shining-on-the-racists/503337.md?page=2)