Any real racism sickens me.  But this particular example of it sickens me to the core of my being.

This weekend there will be major ceremonies commemorating the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” – the peaceful march in Selma Alabama during which Black citizens, asking nothing more than being given the same rights afforded to anyone else – particularly the right to vote – were set upon and beaten by the police, under the direction of a racist police chief and to the cheers of racist White citizens whom, the filmed accounts show, loved every minute of it.

So what does a racist bunch of morons – calling themselves “friends of Forrest” do?  they put this billboard up within site of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where much of the carnage took place 50 years ago – and where most of the commemorative activities will take place this weekend:

And that “keep the skeer on \’em” quote?  It was forrest\’s slogan, encouraging likeminded “people” to frighten slaves, and their abolitionist supporters, into submission.

You want real racism?  Try and find a more disgusting example of it.  I dare you.

I am not a lawbreaker by nature or intent.  But if I had a match, some gasoline, and access to that sick display of hatred, it just might wind up looking like one of those burning crosses the “friends of forrest” crowd love so much in about two seconds flat.

Real racism.  It comes in all forms from all sources.  No one is immune to it or from it.  Certainly not a bunch of ignorant racist scumbags who can\’t get over the fact that Black people are (gasp!) actually supposed to be treated like people.