Aphrodite

Now that the George Zimmerman verdict has been announced, where, of course he was found not guilty, racist internet trolls are starting to show their heads. You might even find out that someone who you’ve been friends with for a while is actually a racist because of their opinions on this case. Although it is a tragedy that Trayvon Martin was racially profiled and murdered, the only positive thing that has come out of all of this is that racism, as an issue, has fore fronted mainstream discussions.  Recently, one of my “friends” on facebook posted an uncritical meme with some witty phrase under it. The caption for the picture basically stated, “Why is it that white people can’t say ‘white pride’ but black people can say ‘black pride?’…why is it that only whites can be racist but no other race can?” Obviously, I responded, and within 10 seconds of responding, he removed the image and blocked me from his facebook. (Don’t you love how modern-day discourse takes place?) Before he completely blocked me, he sent me this enlightening message that only a white man could write, “It is sad what happened to Trayvon and his family, but since you wanna play the race card, Zimmerman is of Mexican decent, not white. And where was the national news for this?” After he felt like he just shattered my intellectual world with his great racist racial insight, I decided to write this post.

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