Via Austinist, conclusive proof that the sixties really did not "fix everything."
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That is so offensive. The other day Pete and I were talking about the next Democratic primary (like we have almost every day since 2004) and he was saying that his dream ticket would be Richardson/Obama. I thought that if those were the men who ended up on the ticket (as happy as that would make me) that there would be an expansiopn of blatant racism in this country. Looks like we just keep taking steps in that direction anyway.
Well, in some ways, a R/O ticket would really force the issue in ways that might be productive for public dialogue. Though the kinds of attacks that I could see getting mounted on them could be the kinds that are hard to expose as being racist, for the same reason that undergrads don't believe that racism still exists (it'd return to the impossibility of discussing the subtlety of the more garden-variety contemporary racism).
Or they could win, and then end up getting assassinated or something, by some over-the-edge fringe group who just can't take it.
Yeah, there were 2-3 blackface-type incidents at UT last semester. The University, of course, didn't respond as a body, letting individual organizations "handle" the situations. And, by "handle," I mean "shut up as quickly as possible so as to avoid embarrassing anyone or opening up a public discussion of why this is not remotely ok.
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