Okay, maybe this is a good topic.
I saw this on the Jezebel website.
"Twitter Racists React to ‘That Nigger’ Getting Reelected"
(by) Tracie Egan Morrissey
In case you were hopeful that Obama winning a second term was some kind of indication that racism doesn't really exist anymore, check out Twitter. The amount of hate speech, referring to the president as a "nigger," a "monkey," calling for violence and for the south to "rise again" was depressing—and eye-opening. Here is incontrovertible proof (as if we needed it) that racism isn't just some imaginary talking point invented by liberals, but an actual problem. What's sadder is that many of these Tweeters seem to be in high school, who don't have the flimsy excuse of being raised in "another time." If you believe the children are our future, then our future is fucked.
Now what's scarier to you? The racism, or the idea that people put these out in public? At first I thought the pollling agency was gathering instant messages, and I was outraged, but then I realized that the racist examples are tweets. Those are public, right? What the hell are these people thinking?
I also recommend the responses to the article. It's a good conversation.
jezebel.com/5958490/twitter-racists-reac...lery/1?post=54081318