Sometime back in the 80s, Rosalynn Carter made a statement to the effect that Ronald Reagan makes us comfortable with our prejudices. Of course, the Rush Limbaughs and other Reagan worshippers derided it as some sort of mortal sin, but I thought it was rather prescient and insightful. I pretty much agreed with her then, and I believe that history has shown it to be true today. The casual way in which some people justify the profiling of the Zimmerman case and New York's stop-and-frisk program (to name only two examples), shows how comfortable some have become with their prejudices. So comfortable that they don't see the insidious racism that's involved.
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