{"id":26083,"date":"2015-03-10T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T22:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=26083"},"modified":"2015-03-10T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T23:24:32","slug":"racists-on-fox-news-cant-decide-whether-racism-is-over-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=26083","title":{"rendered":"Racists On Fox News Can’t Decide Whether Racism Is Over Or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

For several year now the mantra that has been chanted on Fox News and other right-wing media is that racism is a thing of the past. America’s shameful legacy of prejudice was allegedly buried sometime between Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus and Barack Obama’s election to the presidency. Never mind the continued instances of discrimination in hiring, housing, and education, or the horrific violence and intimidation that persists, or the many chapters of the KKK and other congregations of bigots that flourish in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n

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For some people the fact that a little more than half of America’s voters chose an African-American president is evidence that the old hatreds have disappeared. But anyone who believes that just needs to ask themselves “What about the other half.”<\/em> The presence of racism is visible to anyone with eyes and ears and a mind uncluttered by political partisans trying to eliminate a thorny campaign issue. You need look no further than the video<\/a> that popped up this week showing members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma to understand the depth of the problem that still persists.<\/p>\n

The evidence notwithstanding, there are still deniers that either refuse to acknowledge the existence of racism, or excuse it as a trivial matter that doesn’t really interfere with anyone’s pursuit of the American Dream. And last night on Megyn Kelly’s program on Fox News she managed to dismiss the obvious occurrences of institutional racism in Ferguson, Missouri, that were outlined in a report<\/a> by the Justice Department. Reacting to a portion of the report that addressed racist emails by Ferguson police officers, Kelly said that…<\/p>\n

“There are very few companies in America [where] you won’t find racist emails.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was her defense of the Ferguson PD? First of all, a police department isn’t a “company.”<\/em> And while there is no justification for Brewski Barn employees to be exchanging racist emails, law enforcement officers must be held to a higher standard. The inherent power that comes with the badge, not to mention the Constitution, requires unambiguous fairness and equal treatment. The fact that Kelly can wave off racist emails by the police is disturbing all by itself.<\/p>\n

However, Kelly’s remarks have another component that must not be ignored. She is flatly asserting that most American companies are harboring racist employees. But didn’t Fox News declare that racism is over? What about these declarations of America’s racial harmony:<\/p>\n