In case you were hopeful that Obama winning a second term was some kind of indication that racism doesn’t really exist anymore, check out Twitter. The amount of hate speech, referring to the president as a “nigger,” a “monkey,” calling for violence and for the south to “rise again” was...

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The above is from Jezebel. This right here is ya boy Donny Shell. Let me take the conversation a lot deeper, very quickly.

Of the post-election analysis I’ve heard, there’s been little talk of the aforementioned component of America’s election process, which. This is bigger than words: A lot of white kids say “nigger” because their vocabularies are limited. But I’m more interested in the role played by the perspectives of these young tweeters’ parents and how theire P.O.V.’s play out in governing.

It’s tough for urbanites with some degree of sophistication to acknowledge that an entrenched portion of the populace in will never, ever like us. Never mind “like”; they won’t accept African-Americans as being even legitimate. Naturally, the people the parents of these young tweeters and some of the kids themselves, the older ones, send people to Washington who will represent their views on Capitol Hill.

When analysts ponder the nature of gridlock in Congress they absolutely must bring this—the fact that a significant percentage of the House of Representatives sees it as their job to oppose the man in the Oval Office—into account. Reporters, editors and producers must account for stubborn racism in quantifying why things don’t get done.

So far, this just hasn’t happened on anything close to a serious, commiserate level.

Don’t even pretend to cover what’s wrong with the federal level of the U.S. government and how the problems trickle down to stated, counties and cities until you’ve begun to contend with this. To do otherwise is to perform theater and call it journalism.