Ohfergawdsake
by digby
Chris Hayes finds the worst column of the week (and there are many contenders already.) Hayes writes:
One thing that was really amazing about Hurriance Katrina was the way it brought all these very, very old-school (a polite euphemism) racial attiudes front and center. I’d fooled myself into thinking they’d been largely banished from elite white opinion, but nope. Well, apparently the candidacy of Obama is playing the same role, giving a lot of really ignorant white folks ample opportunity to say some awesomely foolish things.
Yes, I suspect we are going to get another peek at the fat white underbelly of thoughtless racism — mostly from people who believe that because they praise a “good negro” like Obama when they say these things, nobody can accuse them of being bigots.
We’ve come a long way, but we aren’t there yet.
Update: As a commenter reminds me, if you aren’t reading David Niewert’s series on eliminationism, you should.
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