On Racism

[lily_liedtome]

Exhibit A) This is Your Nation on White Privilege

Exhibit B) How Racism Works (quoted in its entirety)

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said “I do” to? What if Obama were the

Comments

[do_come_in]

It is both slightly ridiculous and awesome all at the same time.

Also, I'm not sure america is ready for a black president. Just because if people were really able to see passed the fact that he was black and look at him as a real candidate, it wouldn't matter at all. I'm so much in favour of him, but we'll see, really.

[lily_liedtome]

:D

I don't know about that. This whole election is pissing me the hell off, honestly. Ugh, people, why so STUPID? (not you, obvsly!)

[do_come_in]

Mmhmm. People = stupid most of the time, it's upsetting. I've luckily got an outside view of it, but I've been studying American political history for almost four years now and it seems that the same things have been happening since WWI.

[nyoka]

Been meaning to say that I came across your journal on a friendsfriends, and I like your recs and I really like your politics, so I friended you. Friends?

[lily_liedtome]

Hi there new friend! *friends back*

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this -- I have a tendency to post when I have random thoughts or to link stuff, but I'm horrible at keeping up on comments. Usually I answer all my comments every ten days or so all at once. It's a REALLY bad habit.

Your icon reminds me of a picture I have, it looks almost exactly the same except the text reads, "Democracy? DEMO-CRAZY!"

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