Columbus Ohio in the News: Neo-Nazi Edition
So there's this neat little mural painted on the side of a building near downtown in Columbus. I've driven past it a few times, and I have to admit it's a pretty neat little bit of street art:
Well, a few days ago it got some slight modifications:
In case you're wondering, that black square is covering the word "niggers." Here's the full article I lifted that pic from.
We've been having quite a bit of this lately. Only a few days before that the African-American Studies building at OSU got tagged with "Long live Zimmerman!" and a few days before that some lady got her garage covered in racial slurs.
Once upon a time, I wouldn't read too much into this kind of thing. I'd figure that it probably was just a handful of assholes who think they're geniuses because they can hold a spray can and draw swastikas with it.
Problem is, I know the national context. This does not feel like some random guy doing his own thing. This feels like all the ugliness that gets broadcast through our airwaves and our internet transitioning from word to deed.
And I have no idea how we stop it.
Well, a few days ago it got some slight modifications:
In case you're wondering, that black square is covering the word "niggers." Here's the full article I lifted that pic from.
We've been having quite a bit of this lately. Only a few days before that the African-American Studies building at OSU got tagged with "Long live Zimmerman!" and a few days before that some lady got her garage covered in racial slurs.
Once upon a time, I wouldn't read too much into this kind of thing. I'd figure that it probably was just a handful of assholes who think they're geniuses because they can hold a spray can and draw swastikas with it.
Problem is, I know the national context. This does not feel like some random guy doing his own thing. This feels like all the ugliness that gets broadcast through our airwaves and our internet transitioning from word to deed.
And I have no idea how we stop it.
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RyjkyjThese people are just going to totally lose it when Obama gets elected again...
gwiz665Ripley had the right idea.
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NetRunner>> ^gwiz665:
xxovercastxxOn the one hand, Obama's election really put a stamp on how far the US has come in overcoming racism.
On the other hand, there's been a huge resurgence ever since or, at the very least, they've been emboldened somehow. I've seen and heard more racism in the last 4 years than in my previous 29 on the planet.
NetRunnerAs someone put it during the 2008 campaign, America is both the best and the worst country in the world when it comes to race.
The way I interpreted that was that we're probably the only country in the world where you could get a majority of the voting population to elect an ethnic minority for their highest political office. We're also one of the only places where people in Congress would pass around a picture of him photoshopped to look like a witch doctor, and insist he wasn't really born in America.
>> ^xxovercastxx:
On the one hand, Obama's election really put a stamp on how far the US has come in overcoming racism.
On the other hand, there's been a huge resurgence ever since or, at the very least, they've been emboldened somehow. I've seen and heard more racism in the last 4 years than in my previous 29 on the planet.
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