The 'Color-Blind' Delusions of the Trayvon Backlash - By Charles P. Pierce

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The 'Color-Blind' Delusions of the Trayvon Backlash
By Charles P. Pierce
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It is Not About Race because It Is Never About Race. Race is the past. Black people can vote. One of them is president. Nothing Is About Race anymore. Just ask Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum — and have I mentioned recently what a colossal dick that guy is? — and they'll tell you that the president "injected" race into the tragedy. It wasn't there before the president — who is (shhh!) black, you know — put it there. Ask Joe Oliver, this "friend" of the gunman who insists that Zimmerman might have said "fucking goons" and not "fucking coons," because the latter is an obsolete racial slur and the former is a "term of endearment," according to Oliver's daughter. This is enormously believable because, if you're an armed 28-year old gunslinger in pursuit of what you believe is a dangerous burglar, the first descriptive that would leap to anyone's mind is a term of endearment used by high-school girls. Yeah, sure. Whatever. As if. And it is enormously believable because This Is Not About Race

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Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/trayvon-martin-backlash-7650171#ixzz1qLyy8H5F

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1. race and denial have always been bedfellows in america

the denial masks the need to deal with the problem. it is a self-perpetuating cycle of "incidents" and denial that those "incidents" are a part of a pattern. they are not "isolated incidents" and many choose to believe.

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2. The 'not about race' meme allows the gop base to separate themselves and their issues from african

americans. It allows them to think they are taking the high road.