ake, what you are calling 'racist' in her posts is her forthright depiction of how we paler folks think and act in relation to our darker kin. Evidently a person of colo(u)r in a white world has never in our history been able to escape the label. Worse yet, we paler ones rarely are aware of it.

I am reminded of what President Obama said (paraphrased): Of course I grew up considering myself black; no one ever let me forget it.