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I’m A Racist?
Who Knew?
Not Me!

You know, if you ever want to be a political columnist, you’re going to need a few things besides the standard of researching and writing your topic: You need to have a thick skin, a cool head, and being a masochist helps a lot too.

And trust me, some of your readers are going to be sadists, so you better get used to singing these words, “When you give me pain, you give me pleasure.”

Because in this business, you can’t let every single criticism from every reader in a basement in his ripped, stained tighty whities get to you or you’ll never make it.

For example, in one of my recent columns on SodaHead.com
My SodaHead column, while I was blasting away at some program that used rap to teach at-risk students about “old dead white men” (or Founding Fathers as we used to call them), someone accused me of being a racist.

Now being called a racist seems to be one of the standard attack options by some liberals whenever I write about race, however I didn’t even mention race in this column. I have to admit that I was caught off guard, but I easily rolled with the punch. In this business you have to be ready for anything.

After years of writing (boy, this is a self-centered column, isn’t it?) though, I already have a good arsenal of columns that I can call up and use to defend myself with. That’s right, I have written a good number of columns and editorials in the past that goes after racism in all of its ugly forms. Heck, I’ve even written columns protecting Michelle Obama
My SodaHead Column and our president.

So when some idiotic person tries to stick the “You’re a racist” tag on me, he or she is going to fail as badly as when former President Clinton tried to convince us that he didn’t have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.

Now, don’t get me wrong, some liberals will ignore these columns, but that’s what happens when small-minded people are presented with facts that crumble their baseless attacks like a house of cards. And sadly, there are some conservatives who are like minded.

So to any future columnists or to fellow bloggers out there, my advice to you when dealing with groundless attacks by your opponents is this:

Suck it up and deal with it, because in this business there is no safety word.