A Heavy Desk Shift

So, in my day-quil blurred daze this evening, I figured that my 4 hour desk shift was going to be something pretty tame filled with mindless fluff on the internet and perhaps, if I were lucky, a bit of homework. Something Awful feeds to my Google reader and that's generally what entertains me during these hours, but today I saw something that pretty much made me die a little inside. The professor he's referring to actually does state exactly what the guy says he did, but in the context of promoting a human race blind to colour, race, and all that nonsense. A pretty admirable goal, I think. Anyway, upon discussing this video with a friend, he pointed me in the direction of a commencement address he had read in his speech class. This is also pretty appalling. I don't want to get into all my thoughts about either of these links too much because things like these almost always start a fight of some kind. What I'd like people to think about is this: while, given human nature, true equality is simply impossible, why is it that in the face of racism our first response is to be racist in turn but in the opposite direction? Bah. I'm gonna go find something funny to look at. >.<