Well, I see the entire right wing blogosphere is still having a crazed orgy of overt racism today. The Zimmerman acquittal and Obama’s subsequent statement have given them a huge hit of hate juice, and it’s a little amazing how many wingnuts are out there ranting about “race war.” It’s some kind of obsessive paranoid racist fantasy, on a massive scale.

And one thing that’s definitely not helpful: when salon.com publishes disgraceful rubbish like this (the link goes to JM Ashby’s post, by the way). It’s hard to believe an editor actually signed off on this before it hit the web; the piece by Rich Benjamin (who’s African-American) compares President Obama unfavorably to Eric Holder, and asks the poignant question:

Some of us have an Inner Child. Others have an Inner N*gger. Is Holder the president’s conscience? Or his Inner N*gger?

(The N word is spelled out in full in the article.)

Whether you think it’s cool to publish something like that or not, and even if you think the fact that Benjamin is African-American himself gives Salon a license to publish it, there’s no denying the effect it has on right wingers.

Case in point: this gleeful post at breitbart.com by Larry O’Connor, who surely, by now, is aware of what will inevitably happen in their comment section following a post like this (it’s their business model): SALON: IS HOLDER OBAMA’S ‘INNER NI**ER?’

Not every liberal journalist was brought to tears over the President’s belated statement on the George Zimmerman verdict. Columnist Rich Benjamin at Salon.com called the effort “safe, over-rated and airy” and compared it unfavorably to Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent address to the NAACP by asking the provocative question: “Some of us have an Inner Child. Others have an Inner Ni**er. Is Holder the president’s conscience? Or his Inner Ni**er?”

Take it away, Breitbart commenters!

NI**ER PLEASE!!!

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Both aren’t worth 5hit.

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It’s obvious to all people, except the MSM, that Obama and Holder have it out for the white man. They’re joined at the hip and nothing more than a two headed snake in the grass waiting to strike. If they get the House back in 2014, the country is finished..it’s almost there now

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Well, birds of a feather flock together.

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Holder is Americas top “NI**ER”

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That would be Obummer, Holder is what was known as a House Ni**er. He is the person who keeps those slaves seeking freedom and liberty on the plantation. He keeps the masser informed on those planning an escape and ensures they are punished and whipped, killed if necessary. Holder is just like George Sores. Sores is a Jew who helped the Nazi’s. Sad isn’t it.

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Holder is Obama’s inner bowel movement. Obama and Holder are two racist turds

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That is a great statement and it avoids the n-word.

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Please don’t forget that both Holder and Obama are ‘white - blacks’ or is it ‘black - whites’, so don’t forget their ‘inner cracker’.

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Pretty soon the blacks wont want to claim them either.

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Is Holder Mulatto too?

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Now if I say ni33er, mine is deleted.

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I’ve whipped better stuff off of the bottom of my shoes than these colored boys!

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Barokeydoke is his own “inner n****r”

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Nothing “inner” about it.

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Shouldn’t that be ni**ah? Dats what Professor Jeantel said it bes new school

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Barry & Eric Americas top “Wiggers”

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They are both Ni**er’s!

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Obama is morphing into a Jim Jones for the black community. He panders to their sense of victimhood while doing everything to magnify it and exacerbate it. This assures that his abused culties cleave to him.

This is turning very dark - very fast. We have never seen anything like it in America’s history. We watch - stunned - as Pandora’s box opens, Obama’s furies fly forth…

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To quote Forrest Gump….N****r is as n****r does.

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This is an anomaly no water melons were stolen… Can a scientist who studies this species comment? It seems like odd behavior and I was wondering if you have a theory on why no water melons were taken in this video. Truthfully I’m baffled. This is madness! (Followed by link to racist video —ed.)

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Well, given that Holder is of Barbadian descent, and that Obama is of Caucasian/East African descent (assuming he isn’t really the spawn of FMD), then one could say that having an inner ni**er is the only legitimate bloodline that either has to being “down for the cause.”

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Well, we were all thinking it.

Yeah, that’s pretty obvious, dude.