Do you know where your subliminal racism is?
by http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3523
After my extended stay in graduate school, I became inured to racial hysteria dressed up as literary exegesis, so when I opened up the Times this morning, I wasn’t particularly surprised to read this emanating from the Harvard Sociology department:
“On first watching Hillary Clinton’s recent “It’s 3 a.m.” advertisement, I was left with an http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3596 that something was not quite right — something that went beyond my disappointment that she had decided to go negative. Repeated watching of the ad on YouTube increased my unease.”I realized that I had only too often in my study of America’s racial history seen images much like these, and the sentiments to which they allude.”
And then the kicker—while Professor Orlando Patterson watched on with increasing “unease,” he “couldn’t help but think of D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” the racist movie epic that helped revive the Ku Klux http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3577, with its portrayal of black men lurking in the bushes around white society.”
I never knew that the image of women in pearls answering telephones at 3 a.m. was one of the great symbols of American racism, apparently right up there with the flaming cross.
http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/its_3_am_do_you_know_where_your_subliminal_racism_is/