Saturday, July 14, 2007

Yes, Virginia, Racism Still Exists

I'm posting this because of a comment thread on Eric's blog - there is a commenter who is under the impression that America stopped being overtly racist some time in the 1960s.

I beg to differ. These are all from a news story on the wedding of Tony Parker and Eva Longeria:

x1b78 06:04:56 PM Jul 07 2007

A wetback and a French jungle bunny what a pair

x1b78 03:10:19 PM Jul 07 2007

Is Eva technically a midget or a dwarf wetback?

x1b78 03:07:17 PM Jul 07 2007

Eva is a midget mexican she is the size of a Chihuahua. Parker will drink some Colt 45s after losing a basketball game and come home and beat her like a piniata


It goes on and on. I've excerpted from the excerpt at Firedoglake, where Pheonix Woman links to the two stories - on AOL and Yahoo - where the comments are originally from.

If America is over racism, where does this come from?

UPDATE: Just to be clear, there is more than one commenter; I just chose to excerpt the one person.

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