I’m not stupid enough to think that racism is dead, or even dormant.  I live in the Deep South, after all.

If you feel disenfranchised by our President-elect because you disagree with his politics, that’s fine.  I’ve been there.  If you are worried because we now have a Muslim waiting to take office, or that our future President pals around with terrorists, or that your taxes are going to get raised — well, that tells me more about you than it does about anything else.

And that’s fine, too. I’m used to the idea that people are lazy enough to believe competition-driven lies without bothering to research the truth on their own.

But if you’re one of those advocating his assassination because of the color of his skin, or you think that his race disqualifies him?  Well, let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that black — or any non-white, since you like extreme statements — people are inferior.  The president that you probably voted for in the last two elections was utterly incompetent, and has probably done or supported the doing of more harm to our country than I could ever have imagined possible.  It would take an act of whatever god you believe in for Obama to do more damage than W has for the past eight years.

So, with W being as white as they come, where does that put you? In the company of incompetence?

Does it truly scare you that much, that someone slighty different than you in such an immaterial way could be better, smarter, a President with more potential for good, than you?

The current state of the Union?  Not nearly as intelligent as I would hope.