People benefit from racism—hell, I benefit from it every day—and things that benefit powerful people dont just suddenly get fixed and disappear because Halle Berry won an Oscar or whatever. Modern racism lives in entrenched de facto inequalities, in coded language about work ethic and states rights, in silent negative spaces like absence and invisibility, and in Newt Gingrichs hair. And in irony.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:08:41 +0000