Oh no, that damn NAACP has done it again. Causing a major ruckus over racism, yawn. According to CBS News, the organization has recently passed a resolution condemning the Tea Party members for their racist behavior, which includes yelling racist slurs at Black Congressmen and holding up offensive signs. Despite the majority of Tea Party members believing that the plight of Black Americans has been way over-hyped, their number one fan and fearless leader Sarah Palin came to their rescue. Via a Facebook note (wow, this dame is classy), Palin condemned the NAACP for “unfairly” accusing the Tea Partiers of racism and making everything about race in “a new ‘post-racial’ society.” She cited Barack Obama’s existence and African American Republican Tim Scott’s South Carolinian congressional candidacy as evidence of our great national progress.
I’m going to keep this brief, so let me start off with this:
If you are a high-end conservative and/or Republican, then you already support a viewpoint of the world that considers everything as post-racial, post-sexism, and post-everything. In order for your version of the economy and governing to work, you NEED these problems to not exist so that your government does not waste money on things like affirmative action, public school education, passing anti-discriminatory legislation–you know, all that useless expensive junk that doesn’t really help rich White people and probably invades our rights or something like it. So really, I would think twice (/simply not do it) before I agreed with Tea Partiers or Sarah Palin when they claim that there is nothing racist at all going on with signs that address our current President in ebonics and as the “long-legged mac daddy.”
And lastly, there is no such thing as “post-racism” and by using the term seriously, you only prove your ignorance. Especially if you top it off with one of those “I have a friend who’s Black” comments (in this case, Sarah Palin sending a shout out to a random Black dude in South Carolina who is Republican and running for Congress….you know he’s not going to win). These are the type of arguments that undermine the extreme intersectionality of the race issue in our country, and well before that, simplify a 500 year system that has manifested itself in all arenas of our society, from the economic to the political, social, and even religious. It also heavily supports a black and white dichotomy in this argument, ignoring all the other types of racisms that exist out there (Hello Arizona immigration legislation…).
In short, if you truly believe that we are living in a post-racial society……you are probably racist. NAACP gets a tip of the hat for this one.
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