--- On Wed, 10/7/09, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
> It is curious that we're post-racial, yet people are
> painting swastikas and hurling racist epithets -- the events
> that prompt the rally to begin with.
People painting swastikas is pretty damn rare in the US, and you can't really marginalize yourself from mainstream society more than by declaring yourself a Nazi. I have no opinon on Michaels, but you can't leap from actions committed by marginal groups to the society as a whole. You are always going to have outliers, groups with marginal opinions. One could just as well argue that the existence of socialist pamphlets means that socialism is a deep feature of US society.