How racist people convince themselves they're not racists? Nigger rig it.

So a while back I saw this video of an openly racist redneck bar owner in rural Georgia who proudly displayed a sign outside his joint that featured the term "Nigger Rig It"



Now I'm not unfamiliar with the term. I grew up saying it and always thought it was funny just as long it didn't slip out in front of black people (one of the perks of being white: racism as a guilty pleasure). I'm a little smarter than that now, but
I immediately recognised this retards mechanism for excusing his racism.

It seems that simply by putting up pictures of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, and being a registered member of the NAACP, the guy thinks he has permission to still throw around his favorite racist jokes. Offensive yes, but not really that interesting. I mean, a racist in Georgia? Who'da thunk it?

Then I saw the "Heros" section of the new GOP website:



The dark faces there are Octavius Catto, Jose Celso Barbosa ,Jackie Robinson, Hiram Revels, John Langston, Pinckney Pinchback, Joseph Rainey, Mary Terrell, and Fredrick Douglass.

Most of these historical black "Republicans" are over a hundred years dead, and all predate the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when the all the pro-segregation Democrats defected and ran to the open arms of the Republican Party.

It seems that the GOP, much like your redneck bar owner, seems to think all one needs to do is put pictures on the wall and everything will be copasetic.