http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/the-people-who-voted-for-them-are-guilty-too/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/the-people-who-voted-for-them-are-guilty-too/#comment-109 Anonymous Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:00:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=1878#comment-109 I always do a double-take when I see license plates like that, too. I recently met a wonderful woman in D.C. who is not American, and when she gave me her calling card, I noticed her email address had "KKK" in it. I definitely paused. I don't know her well enough to be certain, but I'm assuming that since she's a person of color from abroad, she's not declaring her allegiance to the Klan. Context is everything, right? Just like how Desis get unfairly slammed for swastikas... I always do a double-take when I see license plates like that, too. I recently met a wonderful woman in D.C. who is not American, and when she gave me her calling card, I noticed her email address had “KKK” in it. I definitely paused. I don’t know her well enough to be certain, but I’m assuming that since she’s a person of color from abroad, she’s not declaring her allegiance to the Klan. Context is everything, right? Just like how Desis get unfairly slammed for swastikas…

]]> http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/the-people-who-voted-for-them-are-guilty-too/#comment-108 Ankita Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:39:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=1878#comment-108 Interesting coincidence...just yesterday, I was traveling on the Turnpike in NJ and I saw a car with a license plate that started with the letters "KKK"...I didn't think the DMV would issue or allow that...I guess not... Interesting coincidence…just yesterday, I was traveling on the Turnpike in NJ and I saw a car with a license plate that started with the letters “KKK”…I didn’t think the DMV would issue or allow that…I guess not…

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