and opposition of anti-tax conservatives), Republicans seem to be channelling the history of the US Civil War by mounting defiant state campaigns to resist federal law, and rallying behind the incendiary race-baiting of broadcast media identities who claim to represent the will of the people, exhorting their listeners to "take back" their country. When, on the eve of the historic vote, black and homosexual members of Congress ran a gauntlet of opponents of health care reform shouting racial and homophobic epithets, the success of attempts by right-wing talk hosts and Republican officials to exploit the economic insecurity of whites was clear. The portrayal of health care reform in racist terms by its opponents as "reparations", "civil rights", or "welfare" says a great deal about the history of the conservative movement over the last generation. The barrage of invective greeting the Obama Administration and its agenda led to the resignation of Van Jones, who had been a leading advisor to the president for 'green jobs'. Jones, an African American, took an unusual approach towards the man responsible for his leaving the administration, Fox News television talk show host, Glenn Beck. Beck had made a number of unsubstantiated allegations about Jones, calling him a communist, among other things. Accepting an award from the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) for his work in building a green economy, Jones addressed Beck as his "fellow countryman." "I see you, and I love you, brother. I love you and you cannot do