Regardless of political affiliation, we should all applaud Newsweek's willingness to start a much needed discussion within our society regarding race. Racism is alive and well in this country, and to deny this, is to be disingenuous to one's own conscious. All one needed to do, is attend the 9-12 rally in Washington, DC this year. Never mind that this date should have been reserved for the mourning of the 3,000 innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks eight years ago; rather we were subjected to the very well coordinated right-wing attack machine disguised as grass-roots, with the ginning up of blatant themes of racism, packaged as patriotism. Signs and slogans that read "What does Cleveland and Africa Have in Common? The zoo has an African, the White House has a Lyin' African" or "We didn't come armed..this time"; or my favorite, "A caricature of the President in black face holding a noose that read "Racist against White people",. Racism is indeed alive and well and there doesn't seem to be any shortage of it.
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