White man taunts black comedian: Trumps victory entitles me to call you a ni***r

[JCanete]

18. The level of aggression and hate is disturbing. It can't be easy to have to put up with it.

There is one silver lining in my opinion. People are emboldened to show you who they are. Granted, they might have been somebody different, and could still change if we had a kinder, gentler, more nurturing society...But this is who they were before Trump.

The only difference is they were hiding it in polite society..not its effects, just the root of those effects. It was hard to know who you were talking to, nor was there a chance to directly address that racism or its underlying assumptions. In the wake of Trump, its a little harder to pretend as a society that we've moved beyond racism in this country. as ridiculous as that always was. Maybe some redress will come out of this, as people who don't think they themselves are racist--they just manage to miss all of the micro-aggressions and institutional biases that they themselves are immersed in and contribute to on a daily basis--wake up to the reality that it is very much still alive and thriving.