Myths/racism is over

For awhile after the election of Barack Obama as the first Black president, there were claims that racism was no longer a problem, that we are now living in a post-racial America. These claims seem to have subsided, but we remain on the lookout for any specimens in the wild.

It nonetheless seems worth collecting evidence to refute this, since there is so much of it and yet it can be difficult to search for.

Racism was of course a huge factor in drumming up opposition to Obama during the 2008 campaign, and appears to remain a major component of the unreasoning hatred many conservatroll followers seem to feel for him.

Evidence

• the many groups which pop up in support of the police any time a police officer wrongly kills a dark-skinned person
  • incidents include Ferguson, George Zimmerman vs. Trayvon Martin, many others
• the continued existence and activity of the KKK
• many sources here

Discarded Evidence

• 2014-11-20 Top Nevada Republican Lawmaker Ira Hansen Called Blacks ‘Simple-Minded Darkies’: in context, the quote represents Hansen's opinion of how Democrats view Black people: "The relationship of Negroes and Democrats is truly a master-slave relationship, with the benevolent master knowing what’s best for his simple minded darkies." I was unable to find any overt racism in these quotes during a quick read-through; a more careful reading may find some.
  • Meet Nevada’s new Assembly Speaker

Links

Reference

• Issuepedia: US/racism

News & Posts

• 2014-02-07 Racism and Homophobia Lose as Nearly 50% of Viewers Dump Duck Dynasty: it may be unpopular, but it still exists
• 2014-03-08 More hate from racists – Coalburner edition
• 2014-05-12 I Get Racist and Sexist Hate Mail: when called out on it, they just double down
• 2014-10-10 A Concise History Of Black-White Relations In The United States: includes a cartoon that quickly explains why reverse racism is also a myth
• 2014-11-07 When whites are guilty of colorism (h/t) " research in economics has shown that the wage gap between lighter- and darker-skinned African Americans is nearly as large as the gap between African Americans and whites. In our analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we found that the darkest-skinned African American girls were three times more likely to be suspended at school than their lighter-skinned counterparts — a disparity that is again roughly equal to the gap between blacks and whites."
• 2014-11-27 Being black(ish) in America "Instead of blaming us for how we dress and saying we dress like “gangstas,” why not tune your police and your fucking mind to understand that’s just how we dress?"
• 2014-12-04 Minorities Trapped in Tropes: The Conservative Right’s Cognitive Dissonance on POC Humanity includes screenshots of several racist comments
• 2014-12-05 I offer my thoughts as an explanation, and I’m afraid it’s a bit lengthy.: one man's personal experience of persistent racism
• 2014-12-17 The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences (h/t): the examples cited are relatively mild, but are symptomatic of the filters through which white people predjudge black people they meet.
• 2014-12-22 Subverting old tropes isn’t "PC"
• 2014-12-26 Racism and creationism go so well together
• 2014-12-30 New video: Racism in America by the Numbers: video, with text sources underneath
• 2015-01-31 Erik Rush's Intentional Ignorance: includes both the claim and some counterevidence
• 2015-03-09 Racists Put Up Pro-KKK Billboard at Selma Bridge
• 2015-03-10 Minnesota teens share Snapchat message showing noose around black classmate’s neck: "Gotta hang 'em all"
• 2015-03-19 Gun Show Vendor Sells ‘Running Nigger’ Targets and sold 500 of them at a South Dakota gun show before being kicked out
• 2015-04-17 Phoenix Williams: 'I just felt betrayed' by bus bullying (via) "The taunting began during a bus ride to a band festival. Williams, the only black student in his band class, said he sat toward the front when one of the accused students sat behind him and asked what he thought about the n-word."

Groups

• WHITE GOOGLE+ - observed 2014-12-27, posts go back to at least August
  • Here's a racist hate group alert!: attempting to get it shut down