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From [HERE] Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman who was assaulted with peanuts at the Republican National Convention earlier this week says “I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all,” according to Richard Prince’s Journal-isms blog. After they threw nuts at her they said, 'This is how we feed animals.' "Multiple witnesses observed the exchange. [MORE]
Carroll, 34, said that as an Alabama native, she was not surprised. “This is Florida, and I’m from the Deep South,” she said. “You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don’t think I should do.”
“I can’t change these people’s hearts and minds,” Carroll told Journal-isms. “No, it doesn’t feel good. But I know who I am. I’m a proud black woman. A lot of black people are upset. This should be a wake-up call to black people… . People were living in euphoria for a while. People think we’re gone further than we have.”
The Wake Up Call
Such a reaction is an intelligent reaction to racism. This reaction is not protesting, outrage, crying, begging, singing or violent. And those reactions cause stress, strokes and incarceration among other things and/or rarely solve problems.
It is intelligent to expect racism from white people (Republicans or Democrats) everyday. Racism is white supremacy. It is a a behavioral system for the survival of White people. Whites are overwhelmingly outnumbered on this planet which is 90% non-white (and steadily shrinking through assimilation with non-whites).