I will go into great detail on this subject in the near future, but the events of the past few weeks demand at least some comment. The NAACP called on the Tea Party movement to denounce members who display racist messages. Republicans pandering to the Tea Partiers denounce the NAACP for calling the Tea Party as racist, which they did not do. A right wing activist posts an edited video which purports to show a black woman acting in a racist manner. Her resignation is demanded- then the full text of her speech reveals that she had done nothing to affirm the reverse racist meme she was portrayed as having.
America needs to have a conversation about race. two things need to happen to make it an honest discussion. White people need to acknowledge that racism exists in America, and recognizing that is neither an accusation that someone is a racist nor an admission of it. Minorities need to acknowledge that sometimes they lose by virtue of losing. Sometimes in America racial a=motives are ascribed to things that have absolutely no racial basis.
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