“In this society, everyone has grown up on lies that few are equipped to challenge. The older ones have grown up with plastic called leatherette, with cigarettes as symbols of sex appeal, and with Negroes in the front line in the Army but in the back line at the bus stop. And the younger ones have grown up in a world where a short coffee is ‘tall’ and a medium one is ‘grande,’ and one’s life is ruined for pointing out that the American blacks’ mean IQ of 85, and not racism, is the cause of their underepresentation in the upper echelons of government, business and the professions.”
Charles responds “Ooooo-kaaaaay” to that last sentence, which gets lots of attention, but no direct refutation, in the 1000 subsequent comments.
PLUS: Mrs. Spelling Bee Champ’s, well, inarticulate excuse for something or other:
“Always been told by somebody that I’m not ready, you know, I can’t do something. My scores weren’t high enough…”
