Obama Reelected; N Word Explodes on Twitter (NSFW)

Yes, yes, I know we keep bring up the whole racist thing.

We showed you this and this. And we told you about this. But, even so, it seems there are people out there in the world who think racism isn’t real. Racism is soooo 1964, they say. But even though a black man was just reelected to another 4 years in the White House, I’m here to show you that racism is alive and well, and that our president is bringing those racists out of the woodwork and onto Twitter evidently.

Apparently some people aren’t happy that a black man is living in the White House. They also think it’s funny to joke about a black man in a white house. Well, kids, I’m here to tell you that it’s not funny. It doesn’t even count as a joke. And they sure seem to throw around the N word quite easily, a word I can’t bring myself to even type, it makes me so sick. Perhaps these people just posses stronger stomachs than I.

The folks over at Jezebel were kind enough to do all the work for us and they put together a nice little slideshow of tweets for you.

Warning: major profanity and incessant use of the N word. Seriously, this gave me a headache.

Here’s just a few:

Sigh. Yup. Those tweets are real. In all their ignorant glory.

As much as I’d like to respond to each and every classy, classy tweet, it’s more important to talk about what is so disgusting about this overt display of racism.

My friends and I were discussing this last week and, while we all agreed that all forms of racism are disgusting (to quote my friend Nick), I think what’s especially alarming is the lack of shame. It seems to me that a step in the right direction for equality is shaming the bigots. Maybe racists and bigots won’t accept those they hate as equals right away, or even for years, but they seem to be pushed underground, as it were. They know their beliefs are unacceptable in our society and they hide it.

While I don’t think it’s okay for anyone to harbor racism or bigotry, I think it’s important for a society’s progress for those people to be pushed out of society; they need to know their hatred won’t be tolerated. This is crucial for the younger generations to witness so they also learn that it’s not acceptable. Kids learn racism and hatred and bigotry, so we must teach them by example.

And then you see something like this, so overt, so open, so proudly displayed. Why? Because of the anonymity of the internet? Or is it because our society still permits and encourages racism?

Look at the media during the last 4 years. Look at how we’ve let adults refer to a man who earned the highest office in the land on his own merits. Look at how we allow the labeling of “reverse racism” when we call the racists out on their behavior. Is it any wonder that our young people throw around the N word like it’s Mississippi in 1955?

This is not about the election. This isn’t even about Barack Obama and his lovely family, who, by the way, has more class in one day of living than any of these people have in their entire lives.

This is about racism; it’s about fear. It’s about the terror that your race is no longer in the demographic majority and might also lose the dominant majority. It’s about fear that when your race is in the minority, you will be treated just like your parents and grandparents and ancestors treated others when they held all the power.

But I have news for these people. Someone like Barack Obama, with wisdom and class, would never enact revenge for such horrific words and actions.

Not every feels the same way, however, and I certainly can’t speak for karma. So instead of taunting karma with your hateful little minds, how about trying to be a good person and stop that karmic bitch. Also, maybe pick up a book once in a while. Learn a little something. You sound like idiots.

And for the love of pete, stop using the N word. It’s not okay. Just stop it.

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