Oh, By The Way, I'm White

Sharon Marquez, editor of the Chillicoth Gazette, a newspaper from the newspaper network of Central Ohio, wrote an article about a Klansman who was riding in the back of a pickup truck with a "trashy sign" that would speed away whenever someone tried to approach him.

I appreciate the article. I really do. But the last sentence of the article was "By the way, I am not a person of color. I am white." I think it was odd that she felt she needed to qualify the article as if her words were not powerful enough. It is as if she expects her audience to only believe that an African-American or some other hyphen-American would be willing to write those words.

It really does show how pitiful people must be if we expect them to act like that. How much bigotry is there in the United States where people do not recognize that there has been and always will be a section of White America that acts against injustice. It has been there since the Atlantic slave trade and continues to this day. But the expectation in America appears to be White neglect of race related issues.

Institutional Racism at Work: Whites Lost Imus so They Are Attacking Hip Hop

Imus used our airwaves for bigotry and sexism. After realizing he was in trouble Imus clouded the issue by targeting hip-hop. Unfortunately the media took his lead and have now began to attack the Hip Hop industry following the loss of one of their largest "bullet proof" bigots.

“White powerful” people are mad that Imus was taken down and now, in an act of vengeance, they are making institutional racism work by attacking Blacks via hip hop. Notice how they have changed the issue from Imus to Black people.

The issue is STILL Imus! Call your local stations and tell them that.

p.s. If you want to attack someone outside of Imus try the bigots listed at Media Matters here.