Here's How (conservative) America is celebrating Black History Month:
The James Meredith statue noose is another sign we're not post-
It's black history month, and here's how America is celebrating: another Florida jury decided that a white man who disliked "thug music" didn't commit murder when he shot an unarmed black boy to death. Members of the Ku Klux Klan turned up at a black history month presentation at the Boone County Library in Harrison, Arkansas, wearing "Anti-Racist is a Code Word for Anti-White" stickers. Campaigning in Texas for Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott, rocker and gun fetishist Ted Nugent called Barack Obama a "communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel". And in the early hours of 16 February, somebody "decorated" the statue of James Meredith, the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi, with an old Confederate flag and a noose around the neck.
In the US, we like to congratulate ourselves on how far we've come since the 1950s and 1960s. Racial prejudice is no longer enshrined in statute. The most famous scientist in the country is a black guy: astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. And 12 Years a Slave may win a slew of Oscars.
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Conservatives want to believe that African Americans need to get over it and stop whining about slavery and Jim Crow and white privilege. According to the Fox News wing of the Republican Party, racism is practiced mostly by black people like Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, black people who apparently hate white people. Terrified of demographic projections showing that by 2043 non-Latino whites will be in a minority, they've convinced themselves they're already being oppressed. One form "oppression" takes is that ghastly "political correctness". They know they shouldn't email pictures of President Obama in a feather head-dress with a bone through his nose or assume that a young black guy in a hoodie is going to rob, rape or murder them. They know they can't call Martin Luther King a terrorist out loud, or make jokes in public about the black and gay football player Michael Sam.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/21/james-meredith-statue-ole-miss-post-racial