Straigthforward Answers To Easy Questions, Now Where’s My Whopping Paycheck? Edition

Labs already beat me to this profoundly difficult ethical dilemma that Randy Cohen chose this week:

Last Christmas, I took my grandchildren to “The Nutcracker,” a ballet I love. My enjoyment was severely marred by the appearance of a black snowflake and then, even worse, a black Snow King. The aesthetic incongruity was inconceivable. The entire ballet was spoiled. It is analogous to a one-legged midget playing Tarzan. Does this make me a racist?

Yes.

This has been straightforward answers to easy questions. I hope I can get a gig at the New York Times! (Except to land the job I guess I’d have to say that the reader was only a racist in the sense that she is “like most of us, affected by feelings about race.” Huh?)