U.S. Conundrum: How Do You Kill Heartless Vampires?

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Chauncey DeVega at We Are Respectable Negroes has been doing some extra scribbling - knocked out "10 Things Everyone Needs to Know About White Supremacy" over the weekend, I think - and TMR's got some highlights for the racists:

One of the few "swinger's clubs" white men were happy to let blacks attend.

"What public policy decisions led to white Americans having at least 20 times the wealth of black Americans? Why are urban black and brown communities economically disadvantaged, and white communities (i.e. the suburbs), have been materially advantaged by comparison? Whose interests are served by a criminal justice system that disproportionately and unfairly punishes people of color?"

Everyone will buy it if you smile while lying.

Whites - just shrug and say "I don't know" as though you're totally-wired but completely clueless:

"If we had elected a Mormon, no blacks would've been president until 1978!"

"White racial innocence, and a sincere belief by many white folks that they do not hold racist attitudes, or benefit personally or collectively from systemic white racism, is an example of how white supremacy has evolved to make itself relatively invisible (to willfully ignorant white people) as a dominant social force in American life."

The son of a guy in racist newsletters - and the guy who read them.

If you're supporting a politician who's against parts of The Civil Rights Act - and another one who owns a ranch called "Niggerhead" - that doesn't make you a racist in 2014, right?

Naw - maybe your political party, but not you.

A miserable conservative white man - hoping to stop big government before it helps anyone else.

"The Homestead Act, the New Deal and the GI Bill, were all examples of wealth creation opportunities and an inter-generational transfer of resources within the white community that African Americans and other people of color were specifically denied access to. The extreme levels of wealth and income inequality in the United States is a story of how race and class work together to structure life outcomes."

Laugh it up, Guys - everyday, you're making us love you.

This has resulted in the racist's latest dishonest rhetorical gambit:

Saying we ought to be "grateful" for what they've done to us,…