If he had joked about Jewish kids wearing a Gestapo costume it would be the lede on every story today.
Anti-black bias is so common and acceptable in this culture that a SCOTUS justice "joking" about Black children wearing Klan outfits is hardly a blip on the radar. The cumulative total of decades and decades of racist "jokes" is dehumanizing. And that's the whole point...
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Yolanda Pierce, PhD on Twitter
βAnti-black bias is so common and acceptable in this culture that a SCOTUS justice "joking" about Black children wearing Klan outfits is hardly a blip on the radar. The cumulative total of decades and decades of racist "jokes" is dehumanizing. And that's the whole point...β