"Are you fuckin' kiddin' me? You don't ever admit the existence of this thing. Ever!" ~ Frank Vincent, The Sopranos

my state. oh well.

Some still live in a time warp.

This is just too funny! The Daily Show did a great job.

Yelton exemplifies what we described in Mississippi's Passage of Polling Place Photo ID Law Reveals Still-Burning Vestiges of Jim Crow, relying upon Kathryn Stockett’s novel-turned-award winning movie, The Help, the fundamental problem that arises from point of view, there by way of the women who hire and command the maids and from the maids themselves.

The most powerful distinction occurs by comparing a remark made by Hilly Hollbrook to Skeeter Phelan (portrayed by Emma Stone) and another remark made by Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) to Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis).

"Believe it or not," Hilly tells Skeeter while holding up Skeeter's copy of Mississippi's segregation laws, "there are real racists in this town. If the wrong person caught you reading this, you'd be in serious trouble."

"We living in Hell," Minny tells Aibileen, shortly after a terrified Aibileen stumbled in the dark to Minny's house on the night of Medgar Evers' murder.

In the first remark, we see a form of denial of her own racism coming from perhaps the most racist of the women in the film. In the second, we see how fundamentally different the reality of 1963 is seen through the eyes of an African-American maid.

Here, we have Yelton denying his own racism, even as he derided "lazy blacks" during an interview with Tim Malloy of The Wrap. Demonstrating a total lack of self-awareness, Yelton added: "When a n—– can use the word n—– and it not be considered racist, that’s the utmost racism in the world, and it’s hypocrisy."

Hello!!! Ordinarily, when one African-American uses the "N"-word with another, it's understood as humor, perhaps inappropriate humor, but humor nonetheless. When a white racist like Yelton drops the "N"-bomb, it's with malice aforethought.

Being old enough to remember the vicious response to the 60s civil rights movement, George Wallace and Bull Connor's dogs, I can only come away shaking my head. So much from then we continue to see now.

a veritable work of art!

I wish I could say "unbelievable," but, sadly, Yelton's attitude is all too real, and present in more people's consciousness than I'd like to admit.

Daily Show did its usual hilarious bang-up job.