Racism on the rise as 2012 race heats up
(NEWSER) - Forbes has tracked down the seller of the controversial "2012: Don't re-nig" anti-Obama bumper sticker , and Paula Smith claims there's nothing racist about it. "According to the dictionary," the "N word" does "not mean black. It means a low-down, lazy, sorry, low-down person. That’s what the N-word means," says Smith, who owns a paintball field in Georgia, and apparently has a very strange dictionary. (Forbes notes that Webster's defines it as "member of any dark skinned race. Taken to be offensive.") She says her online sticker company has stocked the sticker in its inventory since 2010, but sales have only recently taken off. More»