The Color Stupid: My ongoing problem with Alice Walker is not her crappy writing

Dead newspapers still insist on putting their idiots online where, like the hidden turds in a bank of stained February snow, they melt out with Spring.

I try to step around these little gifts strewn on my path through the Internet. But every so often, there is a shit sculpture so exceptional that no matter where you go, no matter how you try to avoid it, you still step in it. You step in it because it is so stunningly stupid it is linked everywhere. And then, because it sticks to your mouse, you drag it back to your home page. Sorry about that.

Case in point -- the recent squeezing of that Novelist Laureate of Loonies, Alice Walker.

The racism of the leading lights of the Black community is now ceaqwling out from under it's rock and standing tall in the full light of the sun:

But enough of these slabs of pap, Ms. Walker. Let's get on to your real reason for loving Obama and feeling he's fit to serve -- he's black. That's really the only qualification he has and it trumps all others. It especially trumps Hillary Clinton who is, according to you, a racist simply because of her birth.

It is hard to relate what it feels like to see Mrs Clinton (I wish she felt self-assured enough to use her own name) referred to as "a woman" while Barack Obama is always referred to as "a black man". One would think she is just any woman, but she is not. She carries all the history of white womanhood in the US in her person; it would be a miracle if we, and the world, did not react to this fact. How dishonest it is, to try to make her innocent of her racial inheritance.

So, Ms. Walker, at the end of the day you hold that Clinton is not a viable candidate for President because she cannot be "innocent of her racial inheritance?"

I hold no brief for Ms. Clinton, Alice, but can you please explain to me why your statement is not one of the most racist remarks to date in this doleful and deeply racist campaign?

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