When there's no racism, make some up

Monday, February 19, 2024

A new "Peanuts" special focusing on the comic strip's first Black character, Franklin Armstrong, addresses a controversial scene from the 1973 special "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving." The new special, titled "Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin," was just dropped on Apple TV+ over the weekend, addressing the controversial scene where Franklin is shown sitting on one side of the dinner table while the rest of the guests sit on the opposite side. In the new special, all the Peanuts characters are shown rallying around Franklin at the same dinner table.

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I'm just here to find out where there's no racism.

#1 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-02-19 02:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Tennessee (where nazis march) passed a resolution congratulating Nashville band Paramore featuring Haley Williams (white) for her grammy win but refused to congratulate Nashville singer Allison Russell (black) for HER grammy win.

Ms. Williams refused the honor.

www.washingtonpost.com

In a statement sent by the Tennessee House Republican Caucus, Faison said that, as a member of the Republican leadership, he had been approached by several members with questions about Russell, "which made it appropriate for us to press pause on that particular resolution."

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-02-19 03:07 PM | Reply

"Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin"

Boaz is just sad there were no cartoon characters to welcome him home from Afghanistan.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-19 03:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Snoofy,

You become a more ------ individual as time passes.

#4 | Posted by boaz at 2024-02-19 05:22 PM | Reply

These days the demand for racism vastly outpaces the supply.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-19 07:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

These days the demand for racism vastly outpaces the supply.

POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2024-02-19 07:11 PM | REPLY

Obama proves Racism is alive and well in today's America. You Republicans had a fit when he became POTUS. That's a fact not conjecture.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-02-19 07:30 PM | Reply

#6,

Laura,

No one cared that he was black. The problem was he was a rabid progressive like you.

#7 | Posted by boaz at 2024-02-19 08:11 PM | Reply

#7. Yep. His policies sucked and his hectoring and narcissism suck.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-19 08:14 PM | Reply

Laura,
No one cared that he was black. The problem was he was a rabid progressive like you.

#7 | POSTED BY BOAZ AT 2024-02-19 08:11 PM | REPLY

He was no progressive. Why lie about that Boaz??

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-02-19 08:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

These days the demand for racism vastly outpaces the supply.

Oh you guys are doing a bang-up job of supplying it. Don't you worry your little white (and half white) heads.

I just loved driving out to Disney for a wonderful day in the parks where everyone is welcome, no matter who you are - only to be greeted by the neo-nazis with their swastika and white supremacist flags and of course DeSantis 2024 signs...

Almost as heartwarming as hearing how important it is to protect White culture and White history when the GOP held public comment sessions on their proposed law mandating that anyone or any municipality that removed a confederate monument or statue had to fully restore it and put back where it was.

And yes, all true, and yes, I was being sarcastic AF.

#10 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-19 08:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

washingtonmonthly.com

Hmmmm

rabid progressive.

policies sucked

hectoring and narcissism??? What on earth does THAT mean? Like was he uppity or something?

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-02-19 08:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

No one cared that he was black.

LMAO! You just keep telling yourself that. No one with half a brain and any awareness could believe that bulls**t!

#12 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-19 08:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Is the lily white racist redneck known as Comrade Boazo still
Pretending to be a black guy???

#13 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-02-19 08:38 PM | Reply

No one cared that he was black.
#7 | POSTED BY BOAZ

You heard him, boys.
Nobody cared that Barack The Magic Negro was Black.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-19 08:54 PM | Reply

" Barack The Magic Negro was Black."

That term was creat by left wing LA Times.

#15 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-19 08:56 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

" law mandating that anyone or any municipality that removed a confederate monument or statue had to fully restore it and put back where it was"

A law against vandalism?

Oh, the horror!

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-19 08:57 PM | Reply

Rush Limbaugh's analysis of how Barack Obama tries to sound Black when he talks to a Black Southern crowd followed by the song "Barack, The Magic Negro" sung by Al Sharpton Impersonator Paul Shanklin.
m.youtube.com

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-19 08:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

It's amazing how all of these right wing racists support the likes of Tom Scott, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell ... ..

It's almost as if the left wing demand for racism vastly outpaces the supply.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-19 08:59 PM | Reply

"law mandating that anyone or any municipality that removed a confederate monument or statue had to fully restore it and put back where it was"

Now why would it only apply to Confederate monuments and statues...

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-19 08:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's almost as if the left wing demand for racism vastly outpaces the supply.
#18 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

How much of the supply did Heather Heyer selfishly use up?

How much of a supply boost did Dylan Roof bless the left wing with?

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-19 09:05 PM | Reply

And when any of these conservative black people start getting all uppity the left reallly shoes how racist it is. I remember Tim Scott giv8mg a rebuttal to SOTU and he said America is not a racist country. Wow! "Uncle Tim" trended big time after that.

Read anything by leftie heroes like Robin D'Angelo and Ibran X Kendi and swap "black" with "white" and vice versa and it would sound like a member of the Klan wrote it

Progressives are pushing segregation on college campuses.

The progressive mayor of Chicago is pushing a program that rewards ONLY minority owned businesses tax payer money to feed illegal aliens.

Universities have been openly discriminating against Asians applying for attendance.

DEI and CRT openly promote racism.

The left NEEDS to foster racism in any way it can. It's a source of power for the ideology.

#21 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-19 09:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

" Like was he uppity or something?

#11 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-02-19 08:27 PM | FLAG: "

He's an ideologue to the nth degree and a dick. Fortunately for Obama, he was followed by Trump. Much less of an ideologue but much more a narcissist to a point where he ALMOST makes Obama sorta look humble. At least by comparison.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-19 09:12 PM | Reply

You're a lunatic

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-02-19 09:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

-The left NEEDS to foster racism in any way it can.

This is not even remotely in question. Racism mobilizes voters when needed.

And the right needs to foster it as well. Look at how the GOP panders to groups they should distance themselves from.

There is so much of this crap being peddled by both sides....I wonder if it completely cancels itself out.

#24 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-19 09:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"This is not even remotely in question. Racism mobilizes voters when needed."

Racism motivates voters in both sides all right.

So does abortion.

Some people think one side is right and the other side is wrong.

And some people -- get this --- they join the party they think is right!

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-19 09:56 PM | Reply

"The progressive mayor of Chicago is pushing a program that rewards ONLY minority owned businesses tax payer money to feed illegal aliens."

So?

If that's illegal, I'm sure right wingers will pay their lawyers to put an end to it.

If it isn't illegal, what's your point?

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-19 10:03 PM | Reply

Oreo Bo-ass the house nugget.

#27 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-20 12:31 AM | Reply

This is hysterical...

The country has gone down the horrible road, like this site has, of rabidly defending and attacking anyone based on the D or R that follows their name.

Barak Obama gets elected and suddenly now any pushback on him and it's instantly attributed to and only because he is black.

outstanding.

#28 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-02-20 11:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

When you have to lie to make a point then maybe the point you're making isn't worth anything.

#29 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-20 12:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Barak Obama gets elected and suddenly now any pushback on him and it's instantly attributed to and only because he is black.
#28 | POSTED BY KWRX25

Here's why.

The people pushing back on policy are in the same party as the people pushing back on race.

And you Deplorables put up with the racist attacks, because you're okay with them. You don't call them out kick them out of the GOP. You tolerate their intolerance, and that makes you intolerant too.

Get it?

I can rub your face in it more of that would help you get it. You stupid old cripple.

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-20 01:47 PM | Reply

-Barak Obama gets elected and suddenly now any pushback on him and it's instantly attributed to and only because he is black.

Nevermind the fact they pushed back on similar policies when Bill Clinton introduced them.

And it's not like they don't KNOW these same people would have any nicer to Hillary Clinton.

#31 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 01:54 PM | Reply

-The country has gone down the horrible road, like this site has, of rabidly defending and attacking anyone based on the D or R that follows their name.

That represents the air and water to some people. All reality is based on the R or D that follows a name.

#32 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 01:55 PM | Reply

These days the demand for racism vastly outpaces the supply.
#5 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Says the whitest white guy in America.

The white guy who lives in Michigan and is certain immigrants at the southern border are destroying America.

Listen white guy. You haven't a fkkking clue what's going on outside that single wide trailer you're currently too fat to vacate.

But thanks for whitesplaining to us about the lack of racism in America.

#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 01:55 PM | Reply

"All reality is based on the R or D that follows a name."

It's a good proxy measure for whether or not you respect women's rights.
Respacing women's rights is a good proxy measure for whether you're a decent human being.
All signs point to Republicans not being decent human beings.
You disagree? You seriously disagree with that? No, you're a bitch who shuts up when told.

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-20 01:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

No one cared that he was black.

You forget history.

The Tea Party was circulating racist emails about him.

Birthers were questioning his eligibility.

People were calling Michelle a gorilla, including Gracie and her friends on the nooner.

The problem was he was a rabid progressive like you.
#7 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Obama was a moderate. Slightly conservative.

You're a deplorable Trumping MAGAt. Anyone left of Putin is a rabid progressive to you.

Also. Without progress, there's stagnation and death.

Pretty much what a civil warmonger like you is hoping for.

#35 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 02:02 PM | Reply

The left NEEDS to foster racism in any way it can.
#21 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

How fortunate for the left to have the rightwing in this country provide all the racism it needs.

Thank you for your contribution.

You blithering xenophobe.

What's extremely entertaining for me is how on the one hand you fear and hate immigrants.

While simultaneously being blind to your own racism.

You really are a complete fkkking idiot.

#36 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 02:09 PM | Reply

#21 | POSTED BY TAYLORSWIFT AT 2024-02-19 09:07 PM

JFC, look at the shelf life of your posts.

#37 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 02:11 PM | Reply

Racism mobilizes voters when needed.
#24 | POSTED BY EBERLY

There's no better dog whistle to mobilize racists than "there's a crisis at the southern border!"

#38 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 02:13 PM | Reply

Are you going to pretend you didn't scream about the crisis at the border when Trump was president?

Or at least see it every day?

#39 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 02:14 PM | Reply

Are you going to pretend you didn't scream about the crisis at the border when Trump was president?
#39 | POSTED BY EBERLY

The crisis I saw was the mistreatment of human lives.

The separation of children.

The subsequent losing of the children.

#40 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 02:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

-The crisis I saw was the mistreatment of human lives.

so it's your definition of a crisis.

and now it's all fine. No mistreatment going on down there?

#41 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 02:19 PM | Reply

The crisis I saw was the mistreatment of human lives.
The separation of children.
The subsequent losing of the children.
#40 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

and now it's all fine. No mistreatment going on down there?
#41 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Oh I'm sure there's some mistreatment.

But the Republican policy of family separation is no longer in place; in fact it ended under the Trump administration, by Trump.

The United States family separation policy under the Trump administration was presented to the public as a "zero tolerance" approach intended to deter illegal immigration and to encourage tougher legislation.[1] In some cases, families following the legal procedure to apply for asylum at official border crossings were also separated. It was officially adopted across the entire US"Mexico border from April 2018 until June 2018.
...
By early June 2018, it emerged that the policy did not include measures to reunite the families that it had separated.[10][11] Following national and international criticism,[12] on June 20, 2018, Trump signed an executive order ending family separations at the border. --wikipedia

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-20 02:46 PM | Reply

it's your definition of a crisis.

Mistreatment of human lives is a crisis.

People coming to America is not a crisis.

now it's all fine. No mistreatment going on down there?
#41 | POSTED BY EBERLY

There's probably even more mistreatment. Seems like Texans take sick pleasure in it.

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 02:56 PM | Reply

so now you've pivoted to blaming Texas for the "crisis" rather than the president...which is what you did between 2016 and 2020.

Between 2016 and 2020, Texans were nice hospitable folks....and they turned into psychos when Biden was elected?

#44 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 02:59 PM | Reply

Did the federal government put up the razor wire and then watch with glee as people died?

#45 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 03:00 PM | Reply

when? Let's be clear here...because you seem to care greatly about where to shift blame based on who occupies the WH as though everything changes the minute someone new moves in.....

#46 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 03:02 PM | Reply

Trump's policies and Biden's policies regarding the border aren't the same.

#47 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 03:03 PM | Reply

but both policies generate results that get them referred to as a "crisis".

which you feel is unfair.

Am I warm?

#48 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 03:12 PM | Reply

You're doing your best strawman dance.

Here's advice. Don't assume you know what I'm thinking.

The only crisis I see at the border are human rights violations which are what made Trump the darling of American racists.

#49 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 03:27 PM | Reply

There is no crisis at the border. It's the same status quo it's been for 40 years.

#50 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-02-20 03:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

actually, you agreed (without realizing it) to perform live, on stage, for the author the attached article.

To prove there are indeed folks who will go miles out of their way to make absurd arguments to invent racism whenever possible.

Presumably because you think everyone gets off on it as much as you do.

You been running in circles and even pretending what's going on at the border right now is not a crisis.

or at least wanting me to believe that. I think you KNOW it's a crisis but you feel compelled to call it something else.

Because it's making Biden look very bad...and THAT is your crisis.

Biden looks bad.

which is fine.....I won't tell anyone your secret.

#51 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 03:36 PM | Reply

"The only crisis I see at the border are human rights violations"

"There is no crisis at the border"

You guys can work that out.

I'm outta here....

#52 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 03:38 PM | Reply

and now it's all fine. No mistreatment going on down there?

#41 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Lots of mistreatment.

Razor wire, vigilantes. human trafficking, depriving them of water, pushing them back into the river to drown, etc.

All being done by Texans. Who are preventing the border patrol from doing their jobs.

#53 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-20 03:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Texas Trumpers are like their isolationist brothers everywhere; hiding in their turtle shells until their fear of change and the future dissipates... if it ever does.

#54 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-20 03:47 PM | Reply

" There is no crisis at the border. It's the same status quo it's been for 40 years.

#50 | POSTED BY RSTYBEACH11 AT 2024-02-20 03:33 PM | FLAG: "

Toy's better tell that to the mayors of Chicago and New York.

#55 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-20 03:48 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Toy's better tell that to the mayors of Chicago and New York.
#55 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

What?

#56 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-02-20 03:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" Who are preventing the border patrol from doing their jobs."

That would be the Biden administration that was preventing border patrol agents from doing their jobs. It's why Texas decided to intervene.

#57 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-20 03:49 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The only crisis I see at the border are human rights violations"
"There is no crisis at the border"
You guys can work that out.
I'm outta here....
#52 | POSTED BY EBERLY

You don't understand the difference?

There's a manufactured crisis about an invasion of immigrants coming to America to cause crime and take your job.

There's a real crisis regarding human rights violations being carried out at the border.

Pretty simple.

Have a good day.

#58 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 03:50 PM | Reply

Come on down to SoCal, I'll take you down to San Ysidro, and you'll see the lack of a crisis.

#59 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-02-20 03:50 PM | Reply

BellRinger can't fit through the door to his trailer.

There's no way that fat loser is making it to SoCal.

#60 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 03:53 PM | Reply

The Biden administration has not been keeping Border Patrol agents from doing their jobs at the U.S.-Mexico border. In fact, the administration has implemented a migration strategy focused on enforcement, deterrence, and diplomacy, which has increased the number of law enforcement personnel along the border and expedited removals of noncitizens without valid claims to remain in the United States. The administration has also requested funding for additional Border Patrol agents, processing coordinators, and support staff to ensure the enforcement of immigration laws. The administration has taken historic steps to secure the border and has deployed the most agents ever to address the situation at the border.
www.dhs.gov
www.whitehouse.gov

Texas' refusal to allow Border Patrol agents into a park along the U.S.-Mexico border is a new marker in the state's deepening rift with the Biden administration over immigration. For nearly a week as of Wednesday, Texas has denied entry to Border Patrol agents around Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, which has become one of the busiest spots on the southern U.S. border for migrants illegally crossing from Mexico.
apnews.com

#61 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-02-20 03:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#60 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Many of The Trucker Convoy participants were surprised when they didn't see a crisis at the border when they arrived.

#62 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-02-20 04:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's a manufactured crisis.

Trump won 2016 by tapping into Republican Xenophobia.

Republican politicians and pundits have been exploiting conservative xenophobia ever since.

#63 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 04:53 PM | Reply

"Trump won 2016 by tapping into Republican Xenophobia.
Republican politicians and pundits have been exploiting conservative xenophobia ever since."

oh for ----- sakes.....exploiting the border issues have been going on decades prior to Trump.

#64 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 05:05 PM | Reply

-There's a real crisis regarding human rights violations being carried out at the border.

Yes. very good.

#65 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 05:06 PM | Reply

Welcome back.

#66 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-20 05:09 PM | Reply

"That would be the Biden administration that was preventing border patrol agents from doing their jobs. "

Not according to the Supreme Court.

#67 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-20 05:13 PM | Reply

exploiting the border issues have been going on decades prior to Trump.
#64 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Truth!

#68 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-02-20 05:29 PM | Reply

"exploiting the border issues have been going on decades prior to Trump."

^
Typical Republican refusal to acknowledge relevant changes in degree.
Exhibit A: Anti-Semitism had been going on for centuries prior to Anne Frank.
Exhibit B: The climate has always changed.

#69 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-20 05:31 PM | Reply

-Not according to the Supreme Court.

So some decisions are cool from those folks?

#70 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-20 05:39 PM | Reply

#69 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Typical Snoofy refusal to acknowledge relevant facts.

Myorkas ignored 4 federal laws requiring detainment and removal.
d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net

By ignoring them, it created more flow of immigrants, which continues. CA is not the hot spot, its never been the hotspot as it has a "wall".

#71 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-20 06:07 PM | Reply

It's why Texas decided to intervene.

#57 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You mean they decided to violate the US constitution.

#72 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-20 08:36 PM | Reply