Thread: ColorLines: Don't Call Me Racist, and Other Arizona Lies

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Don't Call Me Racist, and Other Arizona Lies

By Daisy Hernández


What the state's new immigration law teaches us about the dissembling language of bias in the 21st century.
April 27, 2010


A few weeks ago, I wrote that we’re in the age of the media-savvy racist. It’s a time in our nation when even the racists know it’s not cool to get caught on a YouTube video slinging the N-word at a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. That would be so...Jim Crow and that would be pretty bad. So pains are taken on MSNBC and Twitter alike to use other words (socialist, illegal) and when needed to even denounce racism. Welcome, ladies and señores, to the media-savvy race game, where the objective is to say anything to avoid being called a racist.

This explains how last Friday Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill into law that basically says, “Cops can use the color of your skin as one factor for demanding proof of citizenship,â€

You can go take your nap now Daisy. Your work here is done dear.