How This Thing Works

Just a short little article- I did not write-while I work (gotta shore myself up here for the coming long winter)....and work on my own (essay that is). This is a pretty excellent list of paragraphs and reading it just really...well, it saddened me. Because it's just so damn true.

"How racism works:

Consider the following:

• What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
• What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
  
• What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to?
  
• What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?
• What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
  
• What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
  
• What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5"?
  
• What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the
election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities
in another when there is a color difference.
— Kelvin LaFond, Fort Worth

Really, this is something I think everyone should keep in mind while they follow the election.