Take off yer blinders

An excellent explanation of White Privilege in America. Just read this, "Imagine if the Tea Party was Black" by Tim Wise.

And this is what you'll learn when you swap team colors:

White Privilege is "The ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, to be viewed as patriotic and normal no matter what you do, and never to be feared and despised as people of color would be, if they tried to get away with half the shit we do, on a daily basis."

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Of course, this representation of the Tea Party engaging in the normal patriotic behavior of American citizens is due in large part to mainstream Media coverage. If you flip to the Daily Show on the TV or any other source of news that actually attempts unbiased analysis that challenges the status quo, you'll already know this.

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Second comment, far less political but just as important.

Getting your shoes re-soled is wonderful. It's an experience of born-again proportions. An epic feeling to wear the shoes of your past well into your future without the skin of your heel scraping along the sidewalk leaving an unfortunate trail of tears and scabby foot-flesh.

I think this needs a haiku (5-7-5?) in the comments section cuz I ain't go one in me head now.

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Soon a terrible sadness will fall on these parts as I make my way across a sky void of volcanic ash towards a land where manifest destiny is embodied physically.