It was particularly damning how there were no simple "men" or "women" in that story, just Canadian men, biracial women, black boyfriends, white truck-cap wearing men, caucasian women. How is/any/ of that relevant? He's terribly fixated on race.
Very true. When he said "I turned to the white people on each side of me, and asked them if they were going to say something to the person," all I could think was, why would you do that? Why would you expect other people to go say something if you're not willing to go say something?
Maybe racism is so bad in Missouri that it wouldn't be safe for him to say something in that situation? I've never been there, so I can't really say.
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...was incredibly racist.
It was particularly damning how there were no simple "men" or "women" in that story, just Canadian men, biracial women, black boyfriends, white truck-cap wearing men, caucasian women. How is /any/ of that relevant? He's terribly fixated on race.
Re:The last e-mailer (Score:2)
Very true. When he said "I turned to the white people on each side of me, and asked them if they were going to say something to the person," all I could think was, why would you do that? Why would you expect other people to go say something if you're not willing to go say something?
Maybe racism is so bad in Missouri that it wouldn't be safe for him to say something in that situation? I've never been there, so I can't really say.