Woo Hoo! Race No Longer Matters!
Posted by neverenoughwords on November 9, 2008
Maybe Cornel West, who wrote Race Matters, would have something to say about that. Seriously, in Kathleen Parker’s latest column she tells her story of living in a divided south. Dorothy, the woman who took care of her, was biracial. Parker’s story is very touching, but she ends it this way:
The day after the election, an African American woman and I were marveling about events and trying to put our finger on what had changed.
That thing. The little speck of difference that kept us imperceptibly apart had been dissolved in a lovely instant of national consensus that race no longer matters.
Really? Race no longer matters? CNN sure is devoting a lot of time to something that doesn’t matter. Oh, and don’t forget what happened at Baylor. Someone thought it would be fun to hang a rope from a tree and burn Obama/Biden signs.
Right. Race no longer matters.
