Prometheus 6

ebogjohnson  

The thing about the racism fairy is that the same wave of the magic burning cross that converts a poor white person into a racist (pobrecito Kramer!) also forces all the coloreds within a 20 meter radius into an abrupt, unwelcome confrontation with something ugly, exhausting and depressing. The closer white people are to power's normative tentpoles - maleness, straightness, richness - the less likely they are to know what it's like to be sitting there minding your own business - say, perusing the transcript of chatter between Sen. Larry "I'm not gay in the bathroom" Craig (R-Idaho) and the cop who nabbed him - only to be suddenly sucker punched by an -ism, in this case white supremacy. Sgt. Dave Karsnia's comment that he'd expect lying and dissembling from a guy "gotten out of the hood" neatly embeds a range classic white supremacist tropes about hoodish suspects, and these tropes are completely from left field. Sgt. Karsnia, apropos of nothing, just figured he'd offer Craig what the cop likely imagined was a particularly shaming contrast, i.e., that between a white male Republican and a hood perp. Because we all know white Republicans don't lie when caught red handed, don't try manipulate the system to get off, and they definitely don't disrespect the established processes and procedures of law enforcement.