First of all, all presidential candidates get SS protection only for the 120 days leading up to election. We’re nowhere near that date yet, you might notice, so it is just a bit unusual that Obama would have to get his so early, don’t you think? At the moment, only he and Clinton (because she’s a former First Lady) have SS protection. Only the black man and the white woman. Hmm.

So before you declare someone else’s argument weak, please make sure your own argument is correct.

Second of all, you lost me when you decided that blots on a victim’s character somehow means she “deserves” gang rape and torture. Nothing you say from that point on — not that you were saying anything intelligent anyway — “deserves” the time and effort of a response. Stop talking.

I never knew a person could type (rather than talk) out their ass. I learn something new everyday.

If you weren’t being serious what you typed would have been very funny satire with hilarious instances like an “imaginary free ride,” “white man’s burden” and “won’t someone please think of the white people *sniffle*”

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/14858304/detail.html

I posted this link to show you one of many examples that go on, on a daily basis, but im sure that you will have some kind of excuse for it. Karma is bitch, and if you are having trouble dealing with life, maybe that is what you get.

But here’s something I’m wondering. Is it really getting worse, or is it just that a few publicized incidents are getting people *talking* about the problems? In “mainstream” (white) culture there’s this whole notion of colorblindness. It’s so pervasive. And in a lot of ways I think this kind of thought — this denial of any race issues at all — is as bad as blatant acts of racism, because it silences any discussion of the problem. It doesn’t even acknowledge that any problem exists.

So although all these racist acts in the news are terrible, I wonder if they are the result of an increase in racism or in a lifting of the veil — the veil of colorblindness. At the very least, they force the “colorblind” culture to acknowledge that racism is very real and very much alive in our society.

But maybe all this is just wishful thinking on my part because I don’t want things to be getting worse. :( What I do know is that people — my students for example — are more *conscious* of race than they used to be, and maybe more conscious of the fact that racism persists.

I’ve been reviewing my experiences with race and the many messages I, as a white female, were given. The more I came into contact with other white people from mostly white places, the more racist bullshit came seeping up through the cracks.

I don’t know… the more I think about my experiences, what people felt free to say to me …no, I think racism was alive and well, and assholes have been trying to be able to bring it public again for decades.

I’m just deeply disturbed that it’s escalating.