The Southern Miss band did themselves no favors last week, looking both racist AND stupid in trying to slur a Puerto Rican player on the Kansas State team. This follows their state "leaders" passing a bigoted law and days after the state endorsed the beliefs of Rick Santorum.
But it is great that America gets to see what the South is like on national television. They have spent the past 150 trying to refight the Civil War, trying to oppress Blacks, Women, and now Latinos.
I would hope incidents like this finally build to an outrage that tells these people that their ideas hold no value, are not American, and they should be shamed to face their hatred and bigotry.
I would hope that.
Unfortunately we are not going to call them out for it, they are going keep thinking it, believing it, and expressing it. In time, however, it will fade to background noise as demographics and education chip away at their, truly, Lost Cause.
In other news, more racist anti-Obama bumper stickers.
If I shook my head at all of this, people would think I was having seizures.
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