Ignorance

The other night, after work, I came home and began to catch up on Facebook. There was the typical Farmville and Mafia Wars bullshit, and then I saw this from a girl I went to high school with: god bless the chinks that do our feet…they are much appreciated. I had to re-read it twice to make sure it really said chinks and not chicks. Thinking that I couldn’t be the only person outraged by her casual use of a racial slur, I perused the comments. Her family and friends agreed with her, and so I, being me, posted something along the lines of, “Um, this is really offensive,” and then I un-friended her because I don’t want to be associated with someone like that. For the next twenty minutes, my BlackBerry kept dinging, alerting new Facebook comments. Unsurprisingly, her husband and family came to her defense. Because it’s okay to be a racist as long as your family supports you and your beliefs.

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