Remember Pete Hoekstra, the Michigan Congressman who made national news by running a racist attack ad against Debbie Stabenow during the Super Bowl? [Stabenow went on to kick his ass in their 2012 race for Senate.] Well, guess what? He’s back in the news. And, once again, it’s for being a lying, racist asshole. Remember […]
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Michigan’s Pete Hoekstra, now Trump’s ambassador to the Netherlands, is once again in the news for being a racist
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-Muslim, Debbie Stabenow, Michigan's 2nd Congressional district, Pete Hoekstra, Peter Hoekstra, racism, The Netherlands 7 Comments
The new hate group next door… Ann Arbor’s American Freedom Law Center makes the SPLC “hate group” list
I may be wrong, but, a few years ago, when I interviewed Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Senior Fellow Mark Potok about the activities of hate groups across Michigan, I don’t believe his organization, which monitors the activities of some 892 extremist groups across the United States, had identified any in our immediate region that […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties Also tagged American Freedom Law Center, David Yerushalmi, hate, hate groups, Islam, Islamophobia, lawfare, racism, right-wing extremism, Robert Muise, Shariah, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC 15 Comments
Tomahawk chops, war whoops, and the bubbling racism at the heart of Scott Brown’s Senate campaign
I thought, a few days ago, in their first televised debate, when Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts said of his opponent, Elizabeth Warren, “professor Warren claimed that she is a Native American… a person of color… and, as you can see, she’s not,” that we’d reached the nadir of this campaign. I was proven wrong […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bill John Baker, birther, Brad Garrett, Cherokee, Dearborn, Eire Pub, Elizabeth Warren, Jack Richard, Kevin Noble Maillard, Lindsey Graham, Massachusetts, Muslim, native american, O.C. Sarah Smith, Oklahoma, racism, Scott Brown, Senate, tomahawk chop, war whoop 14 Comments