Fogdog
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Wow, from your comment one would thing that color based racism in the US and white indignities against black and brown people is just a sore spot on liberal psyches.don't know if the guy is a racist, made a freudian slip, or got tongue tied and said something he didn't actually intend to say. i find people's reactions to it more interesting than the statement itself.
sometimes it seems people are hyper sensitive to things. often, to things that don't apply to them. it's often implied in this general vicinity that EVERY white male in existence is a racist of some sort, (except the few making the assertions, of course, somehow, they're immune to the rampant racism that infects the rest of the world.)
why does it seem like the more entitled and privileged white guys are the ones that achieve enlightenment sooner? maybe it's because they have families that support them while they can sit on their ass and pretend to be enlightened, in the hope that it will some day actually happen?
Jon Stewart said it best here. The whole clip is great but most of it covers events from four years ago. Beginning at 8:00 and ending at 10:25, his timeless statements about white indignities towards people of color address why the "monkey" comment is so saddening.
I get it, Trump has dragged this country into the gutter where it's now OK for politicians to dust off race baiting as a political tactic. I'm sometimes surprised when some people who seemed rational fall for it.