Uhhhh, Ta-Nehisi, I think you and your wife are guilty!

 

I don't know all the particulars, but actor Forest Whitaker was accused of shoplifting at a deli in New York. It turns out he was innocent. Ta-Nehisi Coates (if that's the name his mother gave him, she must have been high on painkillers at the time!) says that's just another example of "invisible racism." He says that if Forest Whitaker had been white, this incident would not have happened. But Ta-Nehisi has no evidence whatsoever to back that up. He doesn't provide any examples of other black men being accused at the same deli. In fact, he admits that the owner of the deli was profusely apologetic, saying that it was an honest mistake by a good man just trying to do his job.

 

I suggest that Ta-Nehisi, himself, is an invisible racist. Without knowing all the circumstances, he automatically assumes that anytime a white person makes an accusation against a black person, it is racially motivated. Ta-Nehisi says his wife has had a grudge against white people since she was 6 years old. Why? Because a little boy called her cousin a nigger. My, my, my! She holds a whole race responsible for an unkind taunt made by one little boy decades ago. Who do you think is the highly visible racist in this bunch?

 

"Invisible racism." The Dallas Morning News; March 8, 2013; p. 25A.