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I often hear political commentators and activists talk about how the Civil Rights Movement defanged overt racism as a politically and socially viable form of expression. Nowadays, folks claim, racists must speak in codes in order to mobilize white resentment.<\/p>\n
I disagree. Yes, I get that things were once worse. I also agree that coded racism is a big problem. However, I don’t believe that overt racism is dead and buried. In fact, I think it’s making a comeback.<\/p>\n
Here’s an example:<\/p>\n
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This picture appeared in a story in Jezebel<\/a> criticizing the racism of these sorority members. Apparently higher education really does prepare students for leadership (in a society in which a significant minority of national elected leaders would spend billions to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico before investing in shoring up dilapidated bridges along our interstate highway system).<\/p>\n Oh, and, yes, I did notice that there’s an Asian woman on the far left. I’m not going to hold her to a higher standard than her white friends, but I’m not calling her sister<\/em>, either.<\/p>\n And then there’s the overt racism of certain political leaders. Take this for instance:<\/p>\n Marilyn Davenport is responsible for circulating this example of overt racism. Ms. Davenport is an elected member of the of the Republican Party central committee of Orange County. The photo was circulated with the caption \u201cNow you know why \u2013 no birth certificate!\u201d Of course, she insists, it was just a joke, a defense I interpret as her way of making sure we know she thinks racism is hilarious.<\/p>\n And then there’s the controversy over the Stanford University mascot. From 1930-1972, the mascot was the “Indian” commonly caricatured as a small man with a very big nose. For 19 of the years that the “Indian” was the Stanford mascot, a man named Tim Williams (aka Prince Lightfoot) performed as the mascot in what Native Americans objected to as a parody of native religious rituals.<\/p>\n In February of 1972, 55 Native American students and staff at Stanford presented a petition to the University Ombudsperson urging that “the use of the Indian symbol be permanently discontinued”as a mockery of Indian cultures, and that the University “fulfill its promise to the students of its Native American Program by improving and supporting the program and thereby making its promise to improve Native American education a reality.”<\/p>\n Good for them. In 1972, the Stanford Indian was retired.<\/p>\n But that’s ancient history, right?<\/p>\n Nope. The controversy over the change in mascots wages on, as represented by these pictures taken by a Native American Stanford alum<\/a> at a recent Stanford reunion weekend:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/obama-as-a-monkey-family-portrait.jpg?w=300&h=228\" "\\"Obama-As-A-Monkey-Family-Portrait\\"")
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