anyone who clutches their pearls, claiming the use of the term ‘racist’ marks a destruction of the institution of journalism, would do best to study the actual history
To those who are angry at any mention of the problematic past of individual people and of our country– good. It should tell you something about yourself and about our society as a whole.
Our self-concept as individuals and Americans is a kind of rounding up; an agglomeration of knowledge and experience and perspective and, well, laziness. That’s how minds work.
