"We are a post-racial nation"...that's what the president said didn't he?

Seems The Valley Swim Club in Philadelphia - the site of his highly touted "Race Speech" - missed that little part: (As much as it chaps my ass to offer white validation for my people being "articulate" or "well-behaved" or any-damn-thing ('specially when they risk nothing by not using their whole name), The Michael Smerconish Daily Show had an eyewitness account from "Jan" about the nanoseconds those damn KIDS were in that pool.) In his "This Week in Blackness," Elon James White says all I care to say about this shit right now: Allison Kilkenny's piece, "Philadelphia Private Swim Club Forces Out Black Children," gives a clear and unvarnished truth about white privilege and the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy in which we continue to live here in America. Her closing paragraph begins with a succinct, and sadly, dead-on description of the way it's always been, and I fear, the way it will always be for those of my kinfolk in this country who still don't get that the "selection" of skinfolk like the Changeling doesn't mean a damn thing in our continued struggle for equality:

What a terrible lesson to teach two children -- one white and one black. The white child learns to fear those who are different from them. The black child learns there is something "wrong" and "dirty" about their very existence.

Yet another generation of Black kids with foot-firmly-planted-on-neck. And the beat goes on...