Another day in post-racial America

[Recursion]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.in/2013/08/another-day-in-post-racial-america-by.html

Just in case you see this on Facebook...

Tea Partiers are very eager to point out that they're just patriots concerned about the size of government, not racists with an agenda to destroy the safety net in order primarily to hurt minority communities. Someone might want to pass that memo along to the folks at Tea Party Nation, who created this doctored photo:

[sheshe2]

1. What courage looks like.

This is also what courage looks like, over there on the left.

Courage is a woman who knows damn good and well that there are people in the world who will use and abuse anything she does in the public eye to slander her, her community, and the sons on whose behalf she’s protesting.

Courage is a woman with her head held high holding a protest sign of her own making in front of a news camera. She is old enough to have three sons. Surely, she has experienced racism before. Surely, she was raised to “never ever forget [she] was born on parole,” and surely she knows that speaking for her sons means taking risks with her own image, her own safety, and her own reputation.

http://jelenawoehr.tumblr.com/post/58727073787/this-is-what-racism-looks-like-racism-is-the

Thanks Recursion, for bringing this to light.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Teaklan.