Thursday, June 23, 2022

Racism Under Every Rock


The sign shown above was posted on the door of an insurance agency in a small town in Maine. The poster said she meant no harm and was just being "snarky," apologizing that it might have been insensitive towards black people. Nevertheless the photo has "sparked outrage" online and brought much woe to that company, despite it hurting nobody and amounting to not much. 

But not a peep from anyone about the earthquake in Afghanistan yesterday that killed 1,000 people. Of course, if they had all been black people the earthquake would have been deemed racist.

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