Sick

When did this become ok again? I'm so tired of this. I'm tired of conservatives and moderates telling me that when I do speak, rarely let it be noted, about race, I'm overreacting; and I'm sick and tired of liberals thinking that they can make racial jokes because they claim they aren't racist.

Shirley Q. Liquor is the persona Charles Knipp assumes when he dons drag and blackface. Liberals tore into Isaiah Washington when he called his Grey's Anatomy co-star T.R. Knight a faggot. Fair enough. But Charles Knipp, a member of the gay community, can parade around mocking black women and posing with a watermelon and malt liqour, and there's barely a peep.

Of all people, another minority should understand what it's like to be mocked, marginalized, and stereotyped. I am sick of this from fellow liberals and those who claim to be progressives. And don't you dare try to defend yourself by declaring that you are not racist. Be women and men about it and admit when you're wrong. How dare you hide behind your facade of liberal beliefs while you dance to the same tune that hurt and disheartened black folks years ago in "less enlightened times." Prove to me that things have changed.

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Alex S. from Grey Area Debates syndicated the above post with a few choice thoughts of his own.