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The (Shiny New) Southern Strategy || Twenty Twelve Edition

The Southern Strategy: emerging, polished, and relentless in the GOP…..opinion from the Editor of the Four Directions Unity Blog.
Note: || The so-called Southern Strategy is based upon an idea that "the wite man is superior to all human beings of color. Their rights are more important. Their preferences are most important. All other people are in effect ""slave class""....editor

I am an American Indian. Most of my adult life I have given much of my attention to American Indian interests and issues. My professional work is in creating both art and words which reflect and seek to engage the waiting world on American Indian issues.
I am also a modern American. My genetic heritage is American Indian, but it is also a bit Celtic and possibly Pantesche or Sicilian.
I am also a Child of the Old South. I was born in 1949 in the doctor’s office, one Doctor Stuckey, by natural child birth into a small southern town. My mother’s family was multi-generational old southern. I…

Vote Vote VOTE

Vote. I voted early, for Oboma, no question. I hope you will do the same.
It is so strange to imagine that an ugly bag of mostly air like Mr Romney could get a single vote. The closeness of this political race indicated that a significant number of people remain attached to racism, attached to big GOP government telling women what they can or cannot do with their bodies, that people of color need to be suppressed and silenced.
In my 64 years, I have never seen a more insane election. The GOP has spent nearly 2 billion dollars attacking Obama. To what end?
Tomorrow we have the final vote. We will also see what really comes to pass with the crazy efforts by GOP to suppress and block the vote. How have they gotten away with this?
We are all witnesses to a conspiracy by a consortium of angry white men to steal the US Presidency. In the end, my great hope is that those millions of us who believe in reason and respect will push back against the toxic clown show that is the GOP today, and re…