"Believe it or not, we called the local Klan about 2 weeks ago, and
they actually admitted that they don't do anything anymore, because
they are broke...."
From UK Cartoonist Steve Bell The full-size version of the cartoon is here. The woman serving as associate vice president for student services at Greenville (SC) Technical College"resigned" after multiple brain malfunctions in her job there. She's "numb" and "shocked" that calling children evacuated from the worst natural disaster in our country's history as "yard apes" -- in two separate briefings last week -- might be a teensy bit beyond the pale. (IslandPacket.com):
"I'm just numb and in a state of shock," Holcombe told The Associated Press.When asked if she meant the comment as a racial slur, she said: "Heavens, no." [Yes, I call all little darkies yard apes - doesn't everyone?]
A
message left for school president Tom Barton was not immediately
returned Wednesday. Barton said Tuesday that Holcombe had apologized in
a separate meeting. He said the comments were reported to him by staff
members who attended the meeting last Thursday. "We're going to rectify
the situation and make it very much known that we won't ever tolerate
that kind of situation - ever," Barton said.
Barton said
Holcombe, associate vice president for student services, made the
comment at a briefing to inform college employees of their roles as
Greenville Tech bused hurricane refugees from the Palmetto Expo Center
for registration. "It's even hard for me to repeat because I can't imagine anybody that would make such an asinine statement," Barton said.
"It was stated that 'We will take these yellow buses and go pick up these yard apes.' My God, how bad can bad get?"
..."It's
not like she just came to work," he said. "She's been here and she
knows our philosophy and she knows the institution. I just can't
imagine why she did it."
Holcombe said Wednesday she did not
want to discuss the incident because she didn't want "to add fuel to
the fire," but she said she looks forward to the day her side of the story can be told.
And
what might that side of the story look like? This, my friends, is an
example of someone that belongs with the knuckle-draggers in the White
Power movement. May I direct her to some internet message boards like
Powerpoint, Free Republic and Little Green Footballs, where
she can mingle with this breed of apes...
Via the LA Times,
I see that the Gretna City Council have passed a resolution supporting
their police chief's indefensible decision to block the Crescent City
Bridge, thus keeping tens of thousands of people trapped in and around
the Convention Center:
"This wasn't just one man's decision," Mayor Ronnie C. Harris said Thursday. "The whole community backs it."
[....]
"We say we're from New Orleans, but we're a suburb," he said. "The
reason we don't live there is we don't like the crime, the politics."
Ribaul was among Gretna residents who praised the decision to close
the bridge. "It makes you feel safe to live in a city like that," he
said.
Some people say "It isn't about racism. It's about classicism". I don't think it matters whether
it's about racism, clasicism, or organometallic chemistry. That's all
secondary to the fact that it's about moral depravity and the lack of
humanity. It's about seeing people dying and deciding to kick them
instead of helping them.
Presumably some of the people who decided to do this call themselves
Christians. They might want to reread what Jesus said about helping
one's neighbors.
..."The reason we don't live there is we don't like the crime, the politics."
The reason I don't live in the deep South is because I don't like
southerners and bigots. But I wouldn't refuse food, water and shelter
to them if they were fleeing a catastrophe.
This 18-year-old genius wore to his high school a shirt on which a
Klansman is waving to a couple driving away in a "just married"-type
car...dragging two black men on nooses behind it. The interval between
his revealing of the shirt and his old-school beat-down was so short
that it would have to have been measured by special instruments.
It scares me that enough
people find this image endearing that someone is making and selling these
T-shirts. But it's very interesting how all racists these days know to avoid that label, and
very smart of them in some ways.
"I'm not racist or anything," he said. "It's just, some people I hate,
some people I don't get along with. And black people just happen to be
the ones because they think they're better than everyone else."
This kid might become a comedian and he sure sounds like a future Darwin Award winner.
The woman serving as associate vice president for student services at Greenville (SC) Technical College 
Presumably some of the people who decided to do this call themselves Christians. They might want to reread what Jesus said about helping one's neighbors.