Hmmm, Food for thought?

About the negative ads in the Tennessee senate race targeting Harold Ford, I think this article makes a very valid point. We all tend to look at things through the veil of our expiriences and the fact that we aren't racist doesn't mean there aren't others that are.

In fact, the simple truth that it took 31 years for South Carolina to make the necessary changes to its constitution, and, the fact that ANYONE voted against the change, it a testament to the fact that whether or not we choose to admit it; the KKK didn't simply disapear from the face of the earth.

I used to think it was a gross misconception that there are still people out there who are outrightly racist, and, that blacks hurt themselves by crying foul from a state of self imposed segregation. I finally concede that indeed I am simply a lucky woman to have never encountered the ignorant hateful people, whose only claim to selfworth is the color of their skin.

Context provides the moral thicket. Consider that when South Carolina finally repealed its Constitution's ban on interracial marriage in 1998 — 31 years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down such laws — almost half of white voters voted to keep it in place. These ads and commercials themselves may not be overtly racist, they just hope you are.
LA Times article here