The racism is thick right now in on websites like CNN and Washington Post

[Cali_Democrat]

Don't read the comment sections of articles if you don't have a strong stomach. Every other comment is a racist diatribe it seems. They are furious Zimmerman is being charged with murder. Free Republic is also in a state of pure, unmitigated anger.

This is nothing new and has been going on for a while now. News websites like CNN may want to consider disabling comments for articles that discuss anything to do with African Americans, even Obama. Those articles just attract too many racists. Imagine the kids reading and being exposed to this stuff.

When I see people like the Oklahoma shooters gunning down random blacks, it disgusts me but it definitely doesn't surprise me.

This is where we are right now in America folks.

[elleng]

1. And I'm not going there,

life is too short.

[tabatha]

2. It is disgusting.

And Angela Corey is a Republican.

Laws and evidence do not matter.

[quinnox]

3. Its always there, and this is to be expected

I also read yahoo message boards from time to time, and sometimes you can't stick a dime in between all the racist rants going on, and don't even get me started on you tube comments. There are a TON OF RACISTS out there, and a black man being president has drove them to the knife edge of nuttery. They are probably dreaming about an all out race war and locking and loading, ready to fight!

[Fumesucker]

16. My mom used to call uncultured people "Yahoos"..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_(Gulliver's_Travels)

A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes them as, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person"

[Tom Ripley]

33. I still do (n/t)

[teddy51]

4. I suppose this means that we may see more violence against minorities in this country, and that

truly sucks. The Right wing was nuts before these charges, they will be off the deep end now I'm sure.

[Typical NYC Lib]

5. Racism is always thick

In both senses of the word.

[hlthe2b]

6. Ahh the double whammy for FR--first Mitt gets the nomination & now their racist inclinations fully

engaged with GZ's arrest.

Best observed from a distance, though, I'd agree.

[CakeGrrl]

7. Best that it gets dragged out into the light of day.

People who think this country is post-racial because a black man is in the White House have much to learn.

[lunasun]

32. yeah I would love to live in their Pollyanna world but Its not true

and maybe if by mistake they come across all the numerous comments online, or start to hear talk where they work etc. they may realize there still is a lot of racism in this country

As time progresses its just more laws to try and prevent racism and hate that have been enacted
but they dont change racist's hearts and minds no law can do that.

[mike_c]

8. online media open comment sections are a real slice of American life, I'm afraid....

We are not a well society.

[toddwv]

9. It's thick everywhere.

It's amazing how many racists crawl out from underneath their rocks in situations like this.

[joshcryer]

10. Yeah, not worth it to read comment sections on all the news sites right now.

And then I'm just reminded of the "white guilt" bemoaning threads here recently.

This shit is real.

It's fucking disgusting.

[ellisonz]

12. I favor having the facebook comments...

...that way we at least know these fools names.

[robinlynne]

11. These reactions are just as scary as what Zimmerman did.

[Heathen57]

13. Just for lazy bastards like me,

could someone provide just a couple of links to get me started?

Racists have just about numbed me to the length they will go in their hatred and fear, but maybe putting some of them out on the net could expose others that are ignorant (and there are some) of these people.

[Cali_Democrat]

14. Here's the main CNN article about Zimmerman being charged

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Heathen57]

22. Thanks Cali,

sometimes my brain just doesn't work like it used to. I appreciate the info.

[KamaAina]

36. "Our brother could have been dead"

There were no winners in this already," Robert Zimmerman Jr. said. "Our brother could have been dead. Our brother literally had to save a life by taking a life."

Could have been dead? From what? Skittles poisoning??!!

[stupidicus]

15. that's to be expected

from those who are all the time asking "what racists?"

[Skittles]

17. like Obama's election

charging Zimmerman is like turning on a light and seeing the cockroaches scatter - racists simply cannot help themselves

[MMJjestic]

18. Looks like a certain segmaent of White America has lost their shit.

Just wait until November if President Obama wins re-election. I may tune into Fox on that day, and watch as Col. Kurtz would say
"The Horror, The Horror"

[jtuck004]

19. Nothing new, just everyday life if your skin is black. n/t

[Quixote1818]

20. Would love to expose who they actually are

It's easy to be a prejudice ass hole when you don't have to show your face. If they had to post a photo with their racist crap not too many would be posting that stuff. They are cowards and the scum of the Earth!

[abelenkpe]

21. Pretty much any article

These days seems to have comments attached to them where people find a way to make some hate filled, nasty, bigoted comment. Really. Even on something as mundane as Dear Abby! I'm sure it's really bad tonite. It's shameful.

[Lint Head]

23. This is not unexpected. Racism and bigotry is being cornered. It has been hiding in the

dark corners of society for so long that it's evil puss filled hate boil is starting to bust.
Bigotry and racism will attempt to infect society again but the numbers against it is overwhelming.
Vile things must be brought out into the open so the sun can shine on it and it can finally be put to death.

[jp11]

24. I've been on the internets a long time the ugliness of our fellow humans isn't new to the internet

or the world.

[jillan]

25. The one comment that is really making me scratch my head is

that at least the stores won't be looted tonite? Huh??

Did the skinheads all go home??

[K Gardner]

26. I peeked in at FR earlier and it literally made me nauseous. I can't read it, but yes,

this is where we are. As a white middle-aged woman from the south, I am ashamed of my race - my region, and humanity in general.

[janx]

27. Sweetie, I'm middle aged too, but I teach young college students.

They don't buy this shit for a minute, regardless of where they come from. Take heart, and don't be ashamed of who you are.

[K Gardner]

28. Awww.. thank you for that...

[fujiyama]

31. Just remember

You're an individual and not a race or a region - and don't represent humanity as a whole. There have always been and there always will be ass holes that hate others on the basis of skin color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or whatever stupid reason a hater's gotta have for hatin'.

[Catherine Vincent]

29. All of them

Yahoo, CNN, MSNBC, Fox (naturally), City-Data, Chron.com...etc. But it's been that way for a while anytime there's a Black person involved in a crime (victim or per).

[Beartracks]

30. Has Rush given the rightwing its talking points on OK shooters yet? n/t

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[BellaKos]

34. Gawd, I thought it was just me who was sickened by all this. n/t

[just1voice]

35. Propaganda is always thick with lies

What I find amusing is the huge number of people who still think CNN or WaPo or MSNBC or any mainstream media has any credibility at all. The all treated torture like it was a debatable topic, spread WMD lies for their own profit, print daily racist op-eds, spread mass financial and economic misinformation and constantly push/sell lies for for-profit boner drug hucksters.

I mean seriously, if people are so stupid that they willingly choose to believe the crap the media sells then they deserve it.