[LTC.Ret]

I was thinking about this the other day. I have an idea:

How about if we just start prefacing everything we say politically with “I know I am a racist, but. . . .”

And I do mean ALL of us -— red and yellow, black and white -— as the little children’s song says.

Let’s either make the powers that be edit that ubiquitous proclamation off our every statement, or let the audience hear it repeatedly for the joke that it has become in our USA -— a USA that has become post-racial on its own free will and BEFORE we elected Obama as president.

I think “owning” the “racism slur” in such a flamboyant way, like the satirizing use a decidedly insulting term like the “N” word among friends to desensitize it and to remove its power, will help to further diffuse a slur that just doesn’t fit anymore, and finally let us relax enough to get over it.

[skully]

I think “owning” the “racism slur” in such a flamboyant way, like the satirizing use a decidedly insulting term like the “N” word among friends to desensitize it and to remove its power,

My racist you are right on with this one!! Empowering the word disarms the race baiter hurling it. You is one smart a$$ racist.