What Real Racism Looks Like //
Yesterday, the State of South Carolina popularly elected its first ever black Senator (he’d previously won a special election to fill Jim DeMint’s vacated seat), Tea-Party darling Tim Scott, and he is the first black Senator elected in a popular election in the Deep South since Reconstruction.
An acquaintance of mine from junior high in South Carolina posted this on FB and I just couldn’t help but share here. Apparently, right wingers in SC are spiking the football by simultaneously touting the end of racism while accusing Liberals (African Americans) opposing Tim Scott of being the reel racits. Twitchy and Youngcons are happy to spread that meme.
Donotlink (YoungCons)
Two of the comments on my acquaintance’s FB post:
Content of character, not the color of our skin. They need to hear Kings’ words
Liberals…the “tolerant ones” which why i will forever distance myself from the “tolerant” left.
I particularly love it when Deep Southern whites (I am also one of them) want to lecture us all on the finer points of King’s philosophy.