July 3rd, 2009
Contrary to today’s stereotypes, racists do not always chew tobacco and drive pickup trucks with gun racks. They wear silk shirts, treat women as possessions, and talk about human rights at cocktail parties far from communities of people of color. The men in pickup trucks are just as likely to be warm and caring as the high-minded liberals are to be racist.
-Wilma Mankiller
p.s. They also like to give each other humanitarian awards and fund non-profit ventures employing other highly educated, well intentioned, high-minded folks. And the beat goes on.
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