Rasistički ispadi na dva koledža nakon Obamine pobjede

Agencije - 09.11.2012 09:52

VIRDŽINIJA - Hampredn-Sidni Koledž iz centralne Virdžinije započeo je istragu, nakon što je u izbornoj noći u Americi grupa studenata nezadovoljna zbog reizbora Baraka Obame bacala flaše, palila vatromete i uzvikivala rasne uvrede na račun manjinskih studentskih zajednica.

Prema pisanju "Vašington posta", nekolicina studenata je prijetila i nasiljem grupi studenata manjinskih zajednica, ali je spriječen fizički kontakt.

Zvaničnici koledža kažu da je u svemu učestvovalo oko 40 studenata, ali se ne zna koji od njih su bili samo posmatrači nemilih scena.

"Duboko sam razočaran studentima koji su učestvovali u ovom štetnoj i nerazumnom slučaju. nema mjesta rasizmu i netrpeljivosti bilo koje vrstu na kampusu koledža", rekao je predsjednik koledža Kristofer Hauard.

Na skupu osude, koji je održan dan nakon incidenta, skupilo se oko 300 studenata ovog koledža.

Hampden-Sidni je privatni umjetnički koledž, sa osam odsto crnih i 83 odsto bijelih studenata.

Sličan slučaj rasnih ispada dogodio se i na Univerzitetu Misisipi, gdje su u izbornoj noći stotine studenata izašle u dvorište kampusa uzvikujući rasne parole i uvrede.

Teško da bi itko uspio u Reganovo vrijeme napraviti proračun bez deficita, dovoljno je sjetiti se programa "Star Wars" koji je doduše u većem dijelu bio lažan, ali je doveo do razvoja između ostaloga i stealth tehnologije i B2.

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Mitt Romney is a rich-from-birth Ivy League product who not only has never done a hard day of work in his life – he never even saw a bad neighborhood in America until 1996, when he was 49 years old, when he went into some seedy sections of New York in search of a colleague's missing daughter ("It was a shocker," Mitt said. "The number of lost souls was astounding").

He has a $250 million fortune, but he appears to pay well under half the maximum tax rate, thanks to those absurd semantic distinctions that even Ronald Reagan dismissed as meaningless and counterproductive. He has used offshore tax havens for himself and his wife, and his company, Bain Capital, has both eliminated jobs in the name of efficiency (often using these cuts to pay for payments to his own company) and moved American jobs overseas.

The point is, Mitt Romney's natural constituency should be about 1% of the population. If you restrict that pool to "likely voters," he might naturally appeal to 2%. Maybe 3%.

If the clichés are true and the presidential race always comes down to which candidate the American people "wants to have a beer with," how many Americans will choose to sit at the bar with the coiffed Wall Street multimillionaire who fires your sister, unapologetically pays half your tax rate, keeps his money stashed in Cayman Islands partnerships or Swiss accounts in his wife's name, cheerfully encourages finance-industry bailouts while bashing "entitlements" like Medicare, waves a pom-pom while your kids go fight and die in hell-holes like Afghanistan and Iraq and generally speaking has never even visited the country that most of the rest of us call the United States, except to make sure that it's paying its bills to him on time?

Romney is an almost perfect amalgam of all the great out-of-touch douchebags of our national cinema: he's Gregg Marmalaard from Animal House mixed with Billy Zane's sneering, tux-wearing Cal character in Titanic to pussy-ass Prince Humperdinck to Roy Stalin to Gordon Gekko (he's literally Gordon Gekko). He's everything we've been trained to despise, the guy who had everything handed to him, doesn't fight his own battles and insists there's only room in the lifeboat for himself – and yet the Democrats, for some reason, have had terrible trouble beating him in a popularity contest.

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent

The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years. The president, mindful of soaring deficits, is pushing bold action to shore up the nation's balance sheet. Cloaking himself in the language of class warfare, he calls on a hostile Congress to end wasteful tax breaks for the rich.

"We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share," he thunders to a crowd in Georgia. Such tax loopholes, he adds, "sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary – and that's crazy."

Preacherlike, the president draws the crowd into a call-and-response. "Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver," he demands, "or less?"

The crowd, sounding every bit like the protesters from Occupy Wall Street, roars back: "MORE!"

The year was 1985. The president was Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Today's Republican Party may revere Reagan as the patron saint of low taxation. But the party of Reagan – which understood that higher taxes on the rich are sometimes required to cure ruinous deficits – is dead and gone. Instead, the modern GOP has undergone a radical transformation, reorganizing itself around a grotesque proposition: that the wealthy should grow wealthier still, whatever the consequences for the rest of us.

Modern-day Republicans have become, quite simply, the Party of the One Percent – the Party of the Rich.

"The Republican Party has totally abdicated its job in our democracy, which is to act as the guardian of fiscal discipline and responsibility," says David Stockman, who served as budget director under Reagan. "They're on an anti-tax jihad – one that benefits the prosperous classes."

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