"Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
-James Madison
It turns out that there is a long and dishonorable history of racism at the Department of Agriculture, just not the kinds that the right wing wants you to think exists. The big story looming over the right's manufactured "crises" regarding the NAACP and Shirley Sherrod is that they controlled the discourse by doing little more than endlessly and raucously repeating talking points. There's literally no substance to their claims of black racism, and yet they have progressives on the defensive over the proposition that racism is now about an embittered, ungrateful minority turning on its benefactors and somehow oppressing them...
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