Where's Waldo?

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Where's Waldo? And by that I mean, find the black people at Glen Beck's Rally.



It's a fun game and you can play it with all the photos I found on http://dc.about.com/od/protestsandrallies/ss/Glen-Beck-Rally-Pictures.htm

In case you need a clue, there is one gentleman in the upper left-center wearing a badge, presumably telling the white woman where to find the restroom.

[Edited for the benefit of Htpcl]

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[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

To make this even more clear. (I've dug this out of the weeds of this OP)

There is a racist element to this, it has to do with the rhetoric surrounding the groups and the motivation behind getting people to rally in the first place, and it isn't necessarily intentional. The current administration was voted in by a clear majority of the population choosing an alleged progressive, so if anyone should be rallying in the streets, it is the liberals. The primary motivations are not likely to be political issues because policies really are not much different from previous administration's policies. It isn't likely that the average attendee even fully understands the policies they rail against. Why didn't they vote for Ron Paul or others who were actually more in-line with their stated goals? They didn't because most of them don't really care about the debt, the issues are a psychological smokescreen that makes them feel better about why they feel the way they do.

So why now, at this moment, do these folks and the tea partiers find it necessary to take "America and civil rights back" when nothing much has changed, and there was no where near the level of unrest among them during the last presidency? Why do they feel so disenfranchised, right now? The belief is that it is largely because they are not used to being of the minority. They aren't used to the fact that people who do not agree with them could take power. They are scared that they are losing control of the culture, and the fact that we have a black president plays a part in amplifying their fears, the tipping point that causes them to act. I would even be willing to bet that most of them aren't even aware of it.

So there is a subtle racist element to these movements mostly around losing power and influence, and of having ones worldview questioned when before it was the standard by which others were judged. This is one reason why a group comprised almost exclusively of members of the ruling class is different from groups of minorities, and should be called out. Why should it remain unquestioned why their political rally does not attract people of color? You don't see many people of color there because for the most part they have neither the history nor expectation of being in control. So the people who attend these rallies aren't bad people and aren't intentionally racist. They just fail to recognize their role in perpetuating a system that seriously needs deconstruction.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

It's amusing how liberals didn't feel this way about Reagan, and how people whose race/ethnicity differed from Reagan weren't racists when they continued to object to his policies.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Yeah it sure is interesting that there wasn't a groundswell of continuous protest and the Democrats didn't filibuster each and every thing he tried to do. In fact there was a honeymoon period between Ronnie and Congress where he could get anything he wanted passed.