Those pesky racial entitlements

Those pesky racial entitlements

by digby

McFadden's strip in the New York Times:



This would be a lot funnier if Justice Scalia were the only person in America who believed this.

The desire for racism is no longer an issue in American life is powerful for a lot of reasons, most of them good. But it's obvious that there are a lot of people who want to declare the problem solved before it's over out of resentment that they had to deal with it in the first place.

It should be obvious to anyone that the act of suppressing the African American vote is racist. And there is no doubt that the Republicans are doing that.

It should also be obvious that when you have a criminal justice system that throws out these statistics, that we have a problem with race:

Drug Sentencing Disparities 

The fact that there are also some African Americans in high places does not change the fact that we stil have systemic racism in this country.  You just can't look at those numbers as come to any other conclusion.

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