I asked in a previous article of mine if racism was still alive and well in the US (link). From the comments it seems to be and still with much steam behind it. But who are the ones keeping this idea alive? The answer would have been simple had those who were racist were the only ones being racist. But the answer is more complicated than that. You see, not only those who are racist spread this terrible concept, but those who are the ones being insulted by this racism also become racist when they chose to use similar comments against those who are being racist towards them.

Then there are those who find racism in everything. As I wrote in my previous article, anything related to then word black and used tin some kinda bad way is being racist, like Black Hole. Well, yesterday I was listening to talk radio. Something I've been doing for quite some time since music stations suck now a days repeating the same songs over and over every hour. I listent to a bit of everything, the morning news, Rush, Randy Rowe, The Schnitt Show and Sean Hannity. Well, during Sean Hannity's show, he made a comment (a very common comment) about how some people "drink the kool-aid" when it comes to Obama and everuthing he says and does. Talk about opening a can of worms. All of a sudden his show was riddled with calls from angry Black people complaining about how they felt offended over his use of the phrase "drinking the kool-aid".

According to my understanding, "drinking the kool-aid" reffers to swallowing everything someone says without questioning any of it, as in how those who died in what is known as "Jonestown Massacre". But God forbid those who called actually knew what "drinking the kool-aid" actually meant. Leave it to these callers to once again, bring racism in something that was not while at the same time putting down their own race. They believed that because kool-aid was a cheap drink that he was reffering to poor minority groups, in this case, Black people. According to the comments and questions made by the callers how was trying to say that poor Black people were stupid because they were in favor of Obama. No where on the show did I hear any comment made by Sean pointing to a particular race as being poor and backing Obama. He was reffering to all those Obambots who will follow Obama to the ends of the Earth (which to me he could bring to reality), see every word he says as God-like, not question any of it and literally see him as the only one with the power to save this nation. Guess everyone forgot that it's the citizens responsibility to save this nation.

Well, there you have it. "Drinking the kool-aid" now means black people are stupid, according to those who called the show claiming to be insulted because they were Black. I would like to take this moment to help the Black community avoid any more insults by pointing out other potential racist concepts.

1) Black keyboards - Everytime some command tells you to hit a key, this could be seen as hitting Black people. Not to mention that the white letter are always on top.

2) Black boards - Though they usually look green, it's always stepped on by white chalk. The white chalk always has the last word.

3) Streets - Usually made of Black pavement, they are always marked with white lines and people are always stepping on it, driving over it and even spitting and throwing garbage at it.

4) the black box - a machine designed to survive airplane crashes, is probably one of the most insulting things ever since it's not even black.

Well, it's a start. I think it's time to start phasing out the concept of black being anything bad or not portrayed in a good way. We should be ahamed of ourselves. !!!!!!