"Civil Rights? I Got Your Civil Rights Right Here"

Above: Your Justice Department Walks to Work

Today, from the TPM Media Empire, we learn that Justice Department Douchebag Extraordinaire Brad Schlozman has spent his tenure in the Civil Rights Division "targeting minority women lawyers" appointed by Democrats and replacing them with "white, invariably Christian men," whom Schlozman summarizes as "good Americans."

I assume the minority women were not "good Americans." With brown skin and vaginas, how could they be?

The far right is engaged in a very risky gambit here. It's no secret that the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s re-emerged as the White Citizens' Council of the 1960s and the Conservative Citizens' Council today, but what's not spoken out loud is the role of fundamentalist Anglo churches in keeping the spirit of the Klan alive. Pat Robertson didn't found Regent University to spread the teachings of Jesus, about whom he has no interest anyway. This is about power, subjugation, intimidation and fear, the four major food groups of authoritarians everywhere. If you're not one of them, by definition you are not a good person.

Non-whites are welcome only insofar as they are useful in maintaining appearances, but these people mean to drive blacks and hispanics as far from power as they possibly can, be it in the Justice Department or the voting booth. The likes of Robertson, James Dobson and the late Jerry Falwell have turned "Christian" into a code word for "racist," and this will come back to haunt them for years when their schemes are finally laid bare. The damage they do their "cause" and legitimate Christianity will be greater than their imaginations. Their wallets will probably fare better. Karma just isn't effective enough sometimes.



UPDATE: I'd be remiss not to also mention the thread that binds fundamentalists all over the world, subjugation of women. It's not merely that these folks are racist, they also are patriarchal and contemptuous of women. Those women who do work for them? Well, they have issues of their own, don't they?