Round-up

1. Subtle racism interferes with black people's mental function even more than overt racism does, a psychological study shows.

What DOESN'T interfere with black people's mental function these days? I mean come on, they like rap music...

2. The operator of a Halloween costume store in America said a window display depicting a man hanging from a noose will be removed after a Scotch Plains woman complained, saying it was appalling and racist.

Delores Jackson, a fifth-grade teacher, said the display she saw in the window at the Halloween Scene store depicted a stuffed doll resembling a black man, wearing a labor suit and hanging from a noose.

Now take a look at the picture in the article. Does it look like a black man to you? It doesn't to me. To me, it looks exactly like what the shop owner described it as: a "decaying person". I've always believed the idiots who report this sort of thing are the true racists because they are the ones who, when they see a rotting corpse, think it looks like a black person. They are the ones who think that any black person in the world could possibly look like a golliwog. They're the ones who accused Peter Jackson of racism in King Kong because they thought the treatment of Kong was similar to that of slavery...and yet they are the ones comparing black people to a sixty-foot ape.