This morning's elliptical machine viewing was the beginning of _I Am Not Your Negro_, which featured old footage of people like these here, w/signs proclaiming that integration was communism.
One of the most astounding things about this is how racists are running the same damn playbook for coming on 60 years now.
@janallmac trump's election was one of the biggest dope-slaps I have so far received, so far as racism in the US goes. Silly me figured we had this shit on the run in the "post-Obama era"--just needed to wait for some creepy old Jeff Sessions motherfuckers to die off.
It was a nice fantasy that only my privileged position allowed me to indulge.
Ah, well. Forward.
@rpardee
God I know.
It was Obama's election that dope-slapped me, and the Facebook comments I read from people who I previously thought were decent folks, and as it turns out I was wrong.
Oh so wrong.
And then Trump just made them worse. Helluva wakeup call.