It's Sad Because It Needs to Be Explained

White Guy Doesn't Understand the Issue, film at 11.

Basically, this Senator from VA saw a non-white person in the crowd, knew this non-white person in a very white crowd was working for his opponent, pointed out the person in the crowd, denies that the name he made up for the non-white dude was racist.

He's probably right, he wasn't racist, he was ignorant. When he told the guy "welcome to America" he was pointing out and capitalizing on white privilege. The real issue here, and one that CNN is incapable of grasping, is that the Senator succeeded in making his opponent's volunteer feel like less of a human being.

But I don't think the Senator is capable of grasping the concept of being made to feel sub-human. I wish there were a way to make him understand it. I really wish there were words capable of making him feel worthless. Because "cracker" and "honky" and "Chauncey" just don't do it. And they never will.