Glen Beck and Sara Palin "Reclaiming" Civil Rights Movement in Washington, DC, March

OPEN LETTER TO GLEN BECK AND SARA PALIN

You can’t have a march to tell the government to leave citizens alone when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s. prerogative was to demand that government live up to its democratic ideals and treat everyone equally. You are having an anti-government march with a bevy of supporters who are sleepwalking through history. Your lack of imagination and historical memory may be masked in ideology but you either fail to remember, can not do so, or find it expedient to lie to yourselves and others for the sake of political gain. And that is the most “un-American” position imaginable.

The Mexican Body as Fuel

Conservative FOX commentator and radio host Glenn Beck read a mock ad created by subscribers to his website that announced the profitable use of Mexican bodies as fuel. What other group could be as expendable in the national imaginary? Would anyone put up with such banter if it dealt with, say, African Americans?

See Text[t] Mex’s post about this.