Mitt Romney 'Hang' Obama Gaffe Prompts Attempt To Clarify Remarks (VIDEO)

My father is a Black man who was born and raised in Lynchburg, Va. He personally saw Black men with ropes around their necks hanging from trees. When he married my mother a, White German born in Berlin, it was illegal. They had to fight the army high command for my father to receive his GI benefits because he was allegedly "breaking the law" for marrying my mother.



I have studied and written about the phenomena of the "lynching fantasy" harbored by many White racist men (and women). For instance, see my HP article, " Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on '24'": http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­ronald-b-r­obinson/mu­rdoch-and-­fox-portra­y-b_b_1725­62.html



Subconscio­us, racist imagery has a way of seeping out of the minds and mouths of people who's primary social and honor groups are made up of people who harbor racist sentiments and implicit racial biases. Sometimes, they're explicit. Like the joke that right-wing Whites still like to tell about what "good ole fashioned" Conservati­ve Affirmativ­e Action looks like - where they hang a rope around a Black man's neck, hang him from a tree branch, and then call him a "Branch Manager."



Sadly, voices like mine that attempt to bring visibility to this issue are often silenced, censored, and/or marginaliz­ed, even by progressiv­e or mainstream media outlets who often seem more concerned with the "feelings" of those espousing racism than those who suffer it.
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