Spoken like a true limousine liberal. Haha.

Spoken like a true limousine liberal. Haha.

Instead of speaking of covert or institutional racism, you spoke of whether rich white men are okay with their daughters marrying black men, as if that is the succinct way to understand racial issues in contemporary America. Instead of being the basic way to understand those relations, it sounded to me as if people think the U.S. is still awaiting the outcome of Brown v. Board of Education and what to do about those sit-ins; i.e., that America's race relations today are still best understood in the terms of the 50s and 60s.

To deny that that racism is best understood with questions from the 50s and 60s is not to assert that racism is dead. It is instead an appeal to a middle ground.

As a final comment, my reaction was not due to me being politically correct, as suggested in today's essay, which suggests that the thoughts are based on a denial of reality and a wish to pander to political appearance. It is actually what I think based upon my experience (that there is racism in America and it is not the same as it was 40 years ago, and to couch it in 40 year old terms shows a misunderstanding of the current situation) and my admittedly informal study of the issues. The term “politically correct” nowadays is periodically used to express a genuine phenomenon, but more often seems to be a term thrown out to belittle the opinions of others.

My two cents. And I won't think you are just being politically correct if you disagree.