Dupuy: 'Post-racist' society not what you think

The MSNBC documentary series "Lockup" ran a story earlier this month about a Maricopa County Jail inmate charged with identity theft named Cecil Kunkel. The 29-year-old Kunkel has a swastika tattooed on top of his "skinhead." He's covered in "white power" slogans and imagery. The only ink-free spot on him is an empty space in the shape of another swastika over his heart. The crew first finds him spending time in the hole as disciplinary action for refusing to house with black inmates. When asked why he refuses, Kunkel says, "Because it's wrong ... nothing personal - it's just the way it is." In the next scene, Kunkel is caught on camera beating an African-American inmate who is, of course, smaller than he.

Filmmakers for the series interview a close family friend of Kunkel, also locked up in Maricopa County. When asked about Kunkel by the producer, the self-proclaimed cousin offers, "He's not a racist."

Yes, here is Kunkel - being documented on national television proudly boasting about being a criminal, who has more Nazi ink than a copy of "Mein Kampf" - and the person closest to him doesn't want Kunkel to be vilified by the term "racist."

The whole conversation about race has turned into a rigged game of Whac-a-Mole: Every time you hit a mole with your tethered mallet, the mole declares, "I'm not actually a mole, and how dare you use such a horrible label to describe me and my mole-like actions, appearance and affiliations."

Making a living promoting a fictional idealized version of 1950s morality while having saucy nudie pics on the Internet, Dr. Laura Schlessinger last week felt she suddenly needed to move us all forward about how an affluent white woman should be able to use the "n-word" with impunity. Dr. Laura said the slur on her syndicated radio show some 11 times. Then the melba toast ideologue decided to become the arbiter of what's funny and said to the caller, the black wife in a biracial couple, "If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry outside of your race!"

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