Racist elements? What racist elements?

Tea Party Racism

This photo is from a great new blog, TeaPartyTracker.org, by the NAACP.

Unicycle in the snow

Photographed in New York City by @benlim (http://twitpic.com/15fkiw) via The Rachel Maddow Show’s photostream.

AP photographer Alex Brandon caught a shot of Senator Al Franken sketching Senator Jeff Sessions yesterday during the Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Elena Kegan.

Franken draws Sessions

Thomas Barbey

via gabriel klee

Spring Blossoms

via jchip8 @ prixdaus

Красивая меча, Тульская обл. Not being a russophone, Google translates this as “Beautiful sword, Tula region.”

Красивая меча, Тульская обл.

via all things photography

Christ the King Sausage Fest

Last summer on a road trip home to West Texas I stopped to visit a family gravesite in Garfield, New Mexico where several of my ancestors are buried.  I am descended from New Mexican farmers who had been in what is now New Mexico since Spanish colonial times.

Here are a few pictures I took.  Click to enlarge.

Garfield gravesite

Garfield gravesite

Below is the gravestone of my great-great grandparents Sixto and Cesaria Ogaz née Ceniceros.  The Ceniceroses have been in New Mexico for centuries.  Sixto, however, was an ethnic Basque and native Donostiarra, that is he was from San Sebastián, España, or as the Basques call the centuries old city, Donostia.  He immigrated to the newly admitted State of Texas while still a boy in 1847.

Garfield gravesite

César Chávez Estrada
March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

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Cesar Chavez