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Ok, add repulsive to my list of adjetives. Add racist too. Of course there's racism here. But I don't understand why bad thoughts in some people's heads, that sometimes manifest themselves in repulives displayes such as putting a noose in a tree makes it OK to beat the shit out of someone, especially since the kid who was beaten was not one of the kids who hung the noose (I'm sure if he was the media would have said so).
I like what I once heard Colin Powell say about racism. He said in an interview that when someone someone called him a nigger, he took the attitude that the person using that word was the one with the problem, and it was no relflection on his own worth. He did not allow ignorant people to make him feel bad about himself. If these racist displays were seen for what they really are - reflection of the ignorance and lack of sensitivety of the person dsplaying them.
By promoting the message that African Amercians are so fragile that they must be protected from harm caused be merely seeing or hearing symbols or words dating from past oppression, we are making ignorant racist white people feel more powerful.
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