Burying The Needle

So the woman behind the awful anti-Obama bumper sticker that reads "Don't Re-Nig 2012" has decided that it's not racist because she says so. It's the other several million of you who are wrong, so LOL case closed. Forbes' Roger Friedman investigates:

Exclusive: Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia has a company called Stickatude.com. And they’re selling their own version of an anti-Obama bumper sticker that reads “Don’t Re-Nig 2012.” Ms. Smith told me in a telephone conversation on Saturday afternoon that the bumper sticker has been in their inventory since June 2010, but just in the last few days it’s started selling. The price is $3. Ms. Smith insisted that the bumper sticker is not racist. I asked her about the “N” word, for which “nig” is the shortened version. “According to the dictionary [the N word] does not mean black. It means a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person. That’s what the N word means.”

OK then, well since you've decided that the N-word is no longer racist, I've decided that you're pretty much an awful excuse for a human being. That was easy.

She continues, because of course whenever you ask a white person about selling bumper stickers alluding to calling the President the N-word, you have to continue, it's in the White Privilege Handbook.

“I just want someone that’s going to help the United States and not give it other countries all the time. And stop giving the immigrants the benefits that most Americans inside their own states can’t even get because they’re giving it others who don’t even live here as an American.

“I do find it amazing and entertaining that one of our stickers has become a racist thing,” Ms. Smith told me. I asked her if she thought the “N” Word was a bad word? “No,” she said, ” because I don’t use it. I have kids here around me that are black kids. I call them my own kids. I’ve helped black families…to guide them in the right direction. Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time. That’s our way of life.”

Really, what's so awful about it anyway? You people are too sensitive to things like this. In a country where being black and walking down the street with a bag of Skittles and some ice tea gets you shot in the chest and your killer gets to claim self-defense because he feared for his life...because, well, you're black, how can anyone possibly think there's still racism going on? We've got the Supreme Court ready to take out the supports on race-based college admissions after all and hey, the President's black. So what's the big deal, right?

Why would anyone complain about things like that, when black people have it so darn good, anyhow? Sheesh. Look, Paula, you don't get to laugh this off and decide that because you don't think it's racist that it's not offensive. You don't get to do that. It's not only racist, not only wildly offensive, but your whole "I help black kids so I'm absolved!" thing is pretty much the epitome of privilege assumption. No. No way, no how. Just no. You buried the needle on that.

Oh, and it's March. Still technically winter. We've got seven and a half more months of this to go, too, and we're already at "Don't Re-Nig." Just get to FOX News in blackface already, will you?