The Van Tran PR machine is really pushing a story that comments made by Rep. Loretta Sanchez were racist in some way against Vietnamese supporters of Van Tran. It’s clearly time for candidates like Phu Nguyen and Bao Nguyen to…
Tag Archive for Racism
Van Tran acting like a Racist and Gay-baiting Homophobe
by Chris Prevatt • • 5 Comments
I remember the days when people assumed you were gay if you had gay friends. I remember when many would say that a man wearing a pink striped shirt, like the one Van Tran is sporting at left, was “a little light in the loafers.” But today few people would make such assumptions.
Is it possible to be against illegal immigration but for immigration reform?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 8 Comments
  It’s a befuddling question. And one sure to have strong opinions, but I pose this question to our readers. Is it possible to be against illegal immigration and for comprehensive immigration reform. And by being anti-illegal immigration, does that…
OC Tea Party Members – Condemn Racism in Your Ranks
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
Benjamin Jealous, the head of the NAACP, wrote this post for CNN.com about the NAACP’s recent resolution asking the Tea Party crowd to repudiate racism in their ranks. He wrote: “It is unfortunate that at a time when our nation…
Tea Party Bigotry
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Meagan Barth yet and State Rep. Chuck DeVore, literally a neighbor of mine in Irvine, both proclaim to be Tea Party Patriots – a group they say includes Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians and even…
OCLNN on UCI rallies against racism, intolerance, and arrests
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
About 250 people at UC Irvine gathered for a “student solidarity speakout†Tuesday. They protested the university’s recent arrests of students, along with the spate of racist incidents at UC San Diego that targeted black students and another incident last month at UC Davis, which targeted a Jewish student with a swastika carved on her door.
Olbermann: Beware fear’s racist temptation
by Chris Prevatt • • 16 Comments
The rationalizations of the racist are too many and too contradictory for the rest of us to keep them straight. The whole of the anger at government movement is predicated on this. Times are tough. The future is confusing. The threat from those who would dismantle our way of life is real, as if we weren‘t, to some extent, doing it for them now.
