Reply #40: I've found that not much is scarier than educated racists [View All]

one can at least see an excuse for uneducated racists. It's the slick and polished educated ones that you have to really be on guard for. David Duke traded the klan robes for suit and tie, got rid of cross burnings for his NAAWP and related organizations. He traded the screaming racist rhetoric for the calm and polished "code" words, like "state's rights", etc. The calm and cool well-expressed reasoning gets the benefit of the doubt, so they're not really racist, because racists are those screaming hood-and-robe-wearing, cross-burning, confederate flag-waving, uncouth yahoos.

There were plenty of people that voted for Obama that wouldn't want him as a neighbor. We're very far from a "post-racial" world.