An Education of Sorts

[Hugh Lincoln]

As Glenn Reynolds would say,

heh.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06/21/Features/One_woman_s_lament__M.shtml

[Hugh Lincoln]

The words on the screen did not lie:

I'm a white woman living in a black neighborhood, and I'm turning into a racist because of it.

She won't use racial epithets. She doesn't go around waving Confederate flags. She had to look up the word "racism" to see if it applied to her:

The belief that race accounts for differences in human ability or character.

She decided it probably does.

Even a liberal white journalist discovers, living in a black neighborhood, that blacks are not like whites.

[Psychoblues]

HL, you gotta quit answereing yourself.



The words on the screen did not lie:

I'm a white woman living in a black neighborhood, and I'm turning into a racist because of it.

She won't use racial epithets. She doesn't go around waving Confederate flags. She had to look up the word "racism" to see if it applied to her:

The belief that race accounts for differences in human ability or character.

She decided it probably does.

Even a liberal white journalist discovers, living in a black neighborhood, that blacks are not like whites.

Point taken and rejected. Give yourself an examination, OK?