Friday, October 25, 2013

Tell Me Again That's It's Not About Racism

I'm not sure that I will believe you.

Two stories came across feeds today. First with a reference to Uncle Remus by saying that associating with president Obama would be like "touching a tar baby".

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Then, a GOP operative in North Carolina was forced to resign after an interview on the Daily Show where he said that the

new state voting law is intended to tilt elections in Republicans’ favor, used the “n” word, referenced “lazy black people that wants the government to give them everything,” and said, in all seriousness, that one of his “best friends is black.”

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Neither of them have an ounce of awareness of what they have said- and how it reflects on their biases and racism.

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