The more we learn about Rick Perry–whose campaign for US President seems to be stalling–the more we’re not surprised. This week we learn that Perry grew up in an almost all-white rural area in Texas where many referred to slingshots as “niggershooters.” And last week we learned of his hunting buddies:

After Rick Perry stopped visiting his N—-rhead camp, he still went hunting—with N word–using rocker Ted Nugent and a hunter whose best trophies came from what he calls “The Dark Continent” of Africa.

Source.

H/T: Brett.

Further Reading

And do not hinder them

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.

The new antisemitism?

Stripped of its veneer of nuance, Noah Feldman’s essay in ‘Time’ is another attempt to silence opponents of the Israeli state by smearing them as anti-Jewish racists.