Crying racism is the idea among white Americans that blacks see racism in every little thing, that they are looking for cases of racism. The phrase is supposed to remind you of the story of the boy who cried wolf. Blacks are seen as “whining”, as being “oversensitive”, as “having a chip on their shoulders”, as “blowing things out of proportion”, as “playing the race card”.
Did you know a historic black town in Alabama is in peril?
The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama’s oldest black city. Empty homes and businesses line the narrow streets.
Hobson City no longer has a police or fire department, and weeds have overgrown the oldest part of the cemetery and a park in this small town that once thrived as a rarity: a place where black people were in charge in the midst of the Jim Crow South.
Alabama State Senator Scott Beason may not have done anything illegal or anything that would specifically disqualify him from office, but his actions certainly disqualify him from being in charge of the rules committee.
This weak (pun intended) in LynchGate (pun intended)
Senator Barry Mask testified. The most significant thing was a tape recording of a phone conversation between Mask and McGregor in which McGregor said he would support Mask if Mask supported the Sweet Home Alabama Bill (SB 380). The significance of this is the tie between the support and a specific vote.
If this is significant every elected official in the country should be on trial. I mean, really. For those who don't know, BingoGate is really about the republicans trying to put all the democrats in jail.
Mask testified that lobbyist Bob Geddie, who has McGregor as one of his clients and also is a defendant in this case, showed up at a fundraiser he had that night with two checks for $2,500.
Mask said his response to seeing the checks was "Oh crap," and he called the FBI. Agents advised him to set up a separate account, where he deposited the checks. He said he has not spent that money.
Defense lawyers indicated this morning that they intend to put Mask through an aggressive cross-examination questioning his motives for going to the FBI.
Defense lawyers want to question Mask about comments he made referring to Greene County, where Greenetrack is located, as a third-world country.
They also want to question him on a referral fee he gets from a lobbyist who also represents McGregor's competitors, the Poarch Creek Indians, and Mask's support of a tax that defense lawyers said would benefit his employer at an economic development authority.
Oh crap is right (pun intended).
