Dude, just because you don't say anything doesn't mean that you're racist.

If someone had said "dumb nigger" I'd probably give them the stink eye, but thats about it. I'm not going to place myself in a situation where I'm going to get into a confrontation about moral issues with a complete fucking stranger. Its not my job. If they're racist, especially as an adult, who the hell am I to say anything? ESPECIALLY if I'm not black (as in this scenario). RACISM IS BAD MMKAY!?

Unless you're actively participating in curbing racism (which is a very small segment of the population), you would never have any need to say anything to the man. He would just become a mark on that douchebag list I keep in the back of my mind.

Now, if the guy had pushed the subject... I would have said something. If he had said it to me directly, I would have said something (and maybe not in the second case, just shrug and look away).

Seriously though, I don't think that makes anyone racist. Socially submissive, maybe, but not racist.

Necessarily. I mean, they could have been.

They're being racist. Bet if it were the white son of a holy roller, they wouldn't have done anything.

I was just thinking about that situation the other day. Not the actually event, but how odd it would be if you had a Dec 31st and a Jan 1st set of twins.

Go figure, it happens.

Palin is now the media darling

She's meeting with world leaders today.

If she drops the ball like she did in that Gibson interview, I doubt they'll be impressed. This is certainly not the time to alienate the rest of the world (seeing as we've let ourselves depend so, so much on them).

She's terrifyingly uninformed.

A dunkin donuts across the street from a sex shop, no less.