What They Really Mean

By Abby Zimet
Common Dreams

You have to wonder: The summer just past has been so full of hate-filled, fear-whipped, over-the-top wing-nuttery - vitriolic town halls, witch-doctor emails, red-scare rhetoric, irrational resistance to a program that will Help You If You Get Sick, and, lest we forget, youth indoctrination camps - could it be that in truth it's all because many Americans remain hopelessly, mindlessly, terrifiedly racist and have thus gone bananas because our President is, in fact, a black guy? Could it be that simple and scary? Jed Lewison at Daily Kos offers a picture that says it's so....(Original.)