“I’m not racist, but…”

[jimhines]

“I’m not a racist by any stretch of the imagination, but whenever people start talking about diversity, it’s a word I can’t stand … What these people don’t like is somebody forcing diversity down their throats.”  -Prescott City Councilman Steve Blair, supporting the decision to “lighten” the dark faces of a school mural.

Comments

[kosarin]

Oh bleh, that's disgusting.

You very well might have seen this already, but I found a really great essay on "using the race card" recently, that I'm super excited about, because I'd been thinking these things, but here it is all nice and elegant as opposed to my rants where I just start sputtering while trying to argue against stupid... :

http://www.zcommunications.org/what-kind-of-card-is-race-by-tim-wise

[jimhines]

I haven't seen that one yet, thank you.

[corinneduyvis]

Ooh, that's an excellent article. Thanks!

[b_writes]

Oh, yay, Tim Wise! I hadn't seen that.

[ravenslost]

*Beautiful* article. Thank you so much for the link!