Manns Medium

I have struggled to try and understand this elusive and temperamental word called “racism” for quite some time and just when I thought I had a handle on it, something else would happen to destroy just about every point I used to connect with that understanding.  Every point except one which is why I strongly believe now that racism is not a condition, disease, result or reasoning.  I now believe that racism is an excuse, convenient for some while inconvenient for others, but an excuse none the less.  An excuse to dismiss or define actions or non-actions of others so that the person doing the defining can wrap their minds around the conversation and move on to yet another subject, issue or matter.  I finally reached this conclusion from the below mentioned article just discovered. The article I refer to is titled “ Texas Teacher Says She’s ‘Sick’ of Black People ‘Causing Trouble,’ Called for State-Sponsored Segregation ” written by Goldie Taylor for Blue Nation R...

Much has been said about Camille Cosby, the wife of comedian Bill Cosby, coming out to defend her husband in a written statement.  I don’t find that hard to believe seeing as how they have been together for quite some years and probably have survived much worse than this in their years of marriage that did not make the papers or cable news.  I think that I would have been more confused and seen it as a bigger point had she not. Now we can look at this in a couple of ways.  The first being that after so long of marriage, Ms. Cosby may be blind to the adventures of her husband or just wish to remain in the dark.  I can’t really follow that because this would imply that Ms. Cosby is slow and stupid which could never be further from the truth.  Camille Cosby probably knows more than many of us combined and has probably forgotten more than many of us will ever know so her being oblivious does not make sense to me.  The second point could be that she is comp...