Do you recall the controversy a couple of years ago regarding the Seattle School District’s definition of Racism? Well, they may have taken down the old racist definition of racism, but they haven’t completely eliminated the racist message behind it… If you follow THIS link, you’ll find that they define cultural racism as

“These aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label people of color as “other”, different, less than, or render them invisible.”

They also reference "I Can Fix It" by damali ayo.

The very first thing to notice about this “art project”, is that it is first directed only at white people who, apparently, are the only people capable of racism. When it moves on to “people of color”, it speaks only about dealing with white racism, assuming that "people of color" cannot be racist.

Yep, that’s me. And you.

In the Seattle Times yesterday, there was this lovely article. It seems that a “tax analyst” has come to the conclusion that Barack Obama’s tax plan isn’t “socialism”, it’s just a bit of “traditional progressive taxation.” Apparently it can’t be socialism because “We’ve had a progressive tax system for some time, and both Republicans and Democrats have bought into it.”

Yes, we’ve had a progressive tax system for some time.

Socialism involves state ownership of the means of economic production and state-directed sharing of the wealth. America’s democratic capitalist system is neither socialist nor pure free market; rather, it mixes the two, and it has at least since the progressive income tax was introduced 95 years ago. Under it, the wealthy pay higher income tax rates than those who are less fortunate do. It’s a form of sharing the wealth.