The Republican "Message": Be Happy You're Punished

"Republicans have got to want to learn, and to be willing to do some thinking, in order to get their message across." 

 - Thomas Sowell, March 25, 2014

"I refuse to deal with how our culture and society treats people of color because it makes me uncomfortable. I don’t want to understand how having a different skin color or ethnicity affects other people because that means I would have to think and consider other points of view. What I want is to not have to think. I prefer to believe I live in a fantasy land where no one ever pays attention to skin color, ethnicity, culture, or religion." 

 - Stuff White People Do, March 23, 2009

 How do you reconcile those two positions? I ask "you" because I can't. Don't even want to try. 

Look at the dates - that's five years whites haven't learned anything, so what would be the point of further effort? For me to die of hypertension, and that's all. 

Instead, I've accepted I live with unrepentant racists, and must lie to their faces, or keep my mouth shut - those are the only available options. Needless to say (as Uncle Tom doesn't seem aware) whites have already got "their message" across in 2014:

The privileged hear only what they want and, through white supremacy, punishes what they don't.

So, since blacks and whites know that's why we were brought here - as far as I'm concerned - there's nothing more needs to be said,…