We don't see very much overt, officially sanctioned, top-down racism anymore. There's no separate drinking fountains for people of color, the schools are (at least on paper) integrated and discrimination against people of color in the workplace can get your company in serious trouble (again, at least on paper). What remains though are the sorts of soft bigotry that are hard to erase because they're culturally transmitted. We can't legislate against a perception. We can try to educate, and Spotted Elephant over at The Bipolar View does an excellent job at doing just that by telling us about racism she found for sale (cheap!) in a mail order catalog. Hey gang, you have to see this!

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