Well-Said

Christopher Hitchens wrote a great op-ed piece about Glenn Beck's rally this past weekend and how this group of people are afraid that this country "will be submerged by an influx from beyond the borders and that it will be challenged in its traditional ways and faiths by an alien and largely Third World religion." He brings up the examples (all from just this summer) of the Arizona immigration law, the calls for amending the 14th Amendment (so that children born in this country to non-citizen immigrant parents cannot receive automatic U.S. citizenship -- we don't want "terror babies"! ), the fight over the "Ground Zero" mosque, and now Glenn Beck's rally this past weekend that called for a (Christian) religious revival.

I loved this part:

In a rather curious and confused way, some white people are starting to almost think like a minority, even like a persecuted one. What does it take to believe that Christianity is an endangered religion in America or that the name of Jesus is insufficiently spoken or appreciated? Who wakes up believing that there is no appreciation for our veterans and our armed forced and that without a noisy speech from Sarah Palin, their sacrifice would be scorned? It's not unfair to say that such grievances are purely and simply imaginary, which in turn leads one to ask what the real ones can be. The clue, surely, is furnished by the remainder of the speeches, which deny racial feeling so monotonously and vehemently as to draw attention.

I also loved how he said that Glenn Beck's rally this weekend was "large, vague, moist, and undirected: the Waterworld of white self-pity."

I don't really get what the message/point of his shirt is. Is it that if there happens to be black people around the world that own/owned slaves, that it's ok that white people do/did, too? Also, who could forget that wonderful country Mauitania?! I don't know if he just happened to forget to put in the "r", or if he thinks that's actually what the country is called.

Oh look! He had another wonderful shirt under his Mauitania shirt!