Shocked by swastikas, white hoods and cross burning in Iowa? You're probably white.

[TexasTowelie]

I read with sadness and disappointment that the national wave of stupidity and hatred passed through Drake University, my alma mater, with racist graffiti appearing on campus over the weekend.

A swastika was carved into the wall of an elevator at the Drake student center, and someone wrote racial epithets on the dry-erase board of a first-year student's door, reported the Register's Jeff Charis-Carlson and Charly Haley.

Drake President Earl "Marty" Martin rightly called the acts "cowardly."

And the students who were interviewed expressed surprise. One student said: "I didn't necessarily think that Drake was that kind of place."

The fact that we're shocked is part of the problem.

Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/daniel-finney/2017/09/19/drake-university-swastika-should-be-surprise/681307001/

[riversedge]

1. photo from article

[Hoyt]

2. "The fact that we're shocked is part of the problem." Exactly.

[get the red out]

3. I am white

And discover that there is no end to the blindness I have had for my 53 years on this planet! I am ashamed of myself. Now I am starting to have thoughts like I had when a dog training buddy of mine mentioned entering a dog agility event about 4 hours away I thought "Shit! She's going to 'driving while black' all that way, will she be safe? Before Trump it hadn't dawned on me that there isn't much safety for minorities under any circumstances, not even for a highly educated professional woman.