When Will We (Really) Prosecute Hate Crimes?: A DC Election Night Attack Was One of Far Too Many!
Submitted by anniewilde on November 14, 2008 - 19:39
The last few weeks have been a roller coaster for this African-American Obama supporter. Anticipation, stress, and fear—anxious, gut-twisting paranoia. I made nervous jokes about lynchings, and watched while Obama-supporting white colleagues and fellow Americans continued to behave, paradoxically, in the blatantly yet (officially) invisibly racist fashion that I’ve become accustomed to.