Columnist says gagging over inter-raical family isn't racist

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Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all.

from Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html

Cohen later tried to explain that by "people with conventional views", he actually meant tea party extremists. He did not explain why, as an experienced writer, he apparently wrote something completely different from what he meant. Even with that "clarification", the stupid remains. If you have to repress a gag reflex at the thought of an inter-racial couple, in 2013, and feel that "this doesn't look like your country at all", aren't you by definition a racist?

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Either Cohen is a crappy writer who needs to learn how to express what he means or he believes that gagging over interracial marriage isn't racist.

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And that it is a view most people hold.

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