In 2009 this great man, currently spinning in his grave, would be called a racist. I mean the non-revised words. The original, that this rebel still clings to, are that we should judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
With The One's ascendancy, it has become enforced that we judge a man not by the content of his character (irrelevant), but by the color of his skin. To do otherwise means one will be labeled racist, and quite possibly put on the DHS's watch list as a potential terrorist.
Check out this heresy from Linda Chavez! She better watch herself!
We ought to relegate terms like Uncle Tom, sell-out, and traitor-to-your-race (or sex) to the same category we do racial and sexual epithets. They reflect the same root prejudices. Anytime we assume that we know something fundamental about how a person behaves or thinks based on race, ethnicity, or sex, we're exhibiting our own biases. People aren't good or bad, hard-working or irresponsible, smart or dull, liberal or conservative based on the amount of melanin in their skin or the number of X-chromosomes in their DNA.
The sooner we start judging people as individuals, not as members of groups, the sooner we'll put prejudice and bias of all sorts behind us once and for all. So the next time Rick Sanchez starts casting ethnic aspersions based on politics, let's recognize his prejudice for what it is.
The whole post is excellent.
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