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Today everyone is a racist, even if they aren't. Take my cousin Brian, for example, who is possibly the least racist person ever born (except for my own son). All through his teen years and into adulthood, Brian has had close friends of many races. His best friend since high school is black. Okay, so Brian is still white -- he has not changed his skin tone or had any other work done to actually become black, although he does have very curly hair -- nevertheless he's an exceptionally fair-minded guy.
Last week he was driving along in his very fabulous new used car when the car in the lane next to him swerved too close, almost hitting him. Brian saw that the driver was texting, or at least holding his phone close up to his face. Naturally, as many people might, Brian swerved away and shouted through his open window, "You're an asshole!"
The guy in the other car got in front of him on the exit ramp, essentially cutting Brian off, stopped his car and walked over to confront him. "Well, you're a racist!" was his angry declaration. At this time I must mention that the guy was Asian.
Brian rightly pointed out that if he were a racist he would never have called him an asshole. Only when you are free from considerations of race, creed and color can you treat people equally, and anyone who texts and drives is an asshole, as we all agree. But if you're black, a racist would never call you that for fear of the dreaded R label.
This explains why hardly anyone ever criticized Obama when he was president, even though he did such a sucky job and then bought a mansion in DC's richest (white) neighborhood and another mansion on (super-rich white folks) Martha's Vineyard instead of moving back to Chicago to help poor people of color. See, I can say Obama is a huge asshole because I am not a racist.
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