Undercover Racism, or an innocent typo?

MSNBC makes a BIG boo-boo!!

So MSNBC 'accidentally' put up a graphic which identified Niger Innis as "Nigger Innis". Somehow, I just can't see an 'accident' like that happening, not in this racially charged, politically correct society we live in. There's no way (IMO) that anyone did not notice that before it went on the air. Maybe they thought it was funny, maybe it was an actual 'racist slur' which someone then figured they'd claim was an 'accident', but I just don't go for the typo excuse.

People today are more aware than ever of anything and everything they say which could be misconstrued or misunderstood, especially people in the limelight. Saying the wrong thing could ruin a career in the blink of an eye, (see Dog the Bounty Hunter) so no one is going to make a mistake like that. Besides, I am sure there's more than one person who sees that stuff before it actually is put on the air, so how is it no one else caught it? Just doesn't make sense to me, I'm sorry, I think it's undercover racism. Prejudice and bigotry is just as prevalent now as it was in the days of KKK and lynch mobs; the only difference is that now there is technology to make things less obvious. Now people can do their 'dirt' but still have everyone thinking they are such a nice person, and that they would never do something so ignorant. Now people laugh in your face, while behind your back they're trying to figure out where they should hang the noose. So many things happening today that are so obviously racially motivated, and yet John Q Society is pretty much taking the stand that things are okay today because the racism landscape is better than it was 40 years ago. How blind can these people be? No, there's no segregation or Jim Crow law anymore, but does that make the insult and injury heaped on minorities any less wrong? We should be fighting just as hard as we did in the Martin Luther King Jr days, if not harder, because it's a lot more subtle and innsidious now than it was. Before you could spot them easily by the sheets they wore; it's not so easy these days.

The person who 'accidentally' put up this graphic calling Niger Innis "Nigger Innis" may or may not be racist; we'll have no way of ever knowing unless he/she decides to come out and tell us. Until the day comes when there's no more racism of ANY kind, we need to be on the lookout for acts of 'undercover racism', and we need to speak up about it every time we encounter it. Don't let people get away with things like this, every time they do, they're made bolder; eventually, cross burning will be back.

And that's Live from Bikini Bottom...