Racist becomes a joke

Bridget wrote, "The president of the NAACP Benjamin Jealous thinks that since Nikki Haley comes from Indian descent, she should understand what it is like to be oppressed by “colonials” and she should be sensitive to how blacks feel about the Confederate flag."

Bridget... you rraaacccist Suthrener! ;)

By harping on racism, they have become what they fought; as seen here with the SC Guv, insisting on defining people by "race" for purposes of division and political policy, that's what segregationist racists did. Nothing wrong with taking pride in one's racial and cultural heritage, like folks around here who are proudly "Cherokee" when they have only 1/65th Cherokee ancestry. Nothing wrong with noting true racist problems, for examples as Zilla writes about in Warped Priorities in Dealing with Racist Mob Violence and The Racism Everyone Pretends Doesn't Exist. However, to keep defining a person, say, as "black" because that person has any black-African-origin ancestry, that's what segregationist racists did!

It's just inescapable: while the rest of the civilized human race moves on from the swamp of racism, these folks are mired in it. They're a joke.

‘That’s Racist’ -- the accusation becomes a punch line. Jonah Goldberg, National Review:

No, racism hasn’t vanished. And the legacy of racism has a long half-life.

But the simple fact is “that’s racist” is the sort of thing those darn kids today say to make fun of their aging Gen X and baby-boomer parents.

It’s also a common joke among conservatives, precisely because we’re used to being called racists for the weirdest things.

Of course, as a privileged Euro-descendent male, what do I know?

A thoughtful reply from Bridget

And subdjoe posts this video:
Morgan Freeman on Racism
Uploaded to YouTube by roytflores on May 15, 2010

And while we're on the subject, sort-of…
Runaway Slave Movie Teaser
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