You’re really bending over backwards to defend your pointless attack upon me when the reality is that, as you’ve admitted, in your overzealous desire to brand me a racist, you entirely misread what I wrote and took what was obviously a parody seriously.

First, despite your attempts at obfuscating the clear intent of the NAACP travel advisory, the media organizations that all uniformly branded it an advisory to people of color to use caution in traveling to Missouri were, of course, correct. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is an organization that specifically speaks to people of color, and the text of the advisory itself speaks repeatedly of the alleged mistreatment of colored people, and, specifically, African-Americans in Missouri. If you have to ask why telling black people not to travel to Missouri is racist, you’re even more tone-deaf than I thought, but if it helps, imagine an advisory telling white people not to travel to … well … say, to “the ghetto” because it’s dangerous for them there. Would that be racist? Yes. Why? Because, as you keep pointing out, it traffics in overbroad generalizations about the ghetto and then tells people, based on their race, to avoid it. Why is telling black people to avoid traveling to the whole State of Missouri any different? I’m sure you can find statistics, as the NAACP did, showing that black people are more likely to have bad things happen to them in Missouri than white people, and I can find all sorts of crazy statistics about “the ghetto” as well, but that doesn’t make issuing travel advisories to people based on their race okay. My analogy/parody was exactly on point, in other words.

Your comparison of this NAACP travel advisory with the U.S. government’s travel advisory warning people to avoid travel to Somalia is completely off because that advisory is based on the threat of actual terrorism (rather than the “threat” of a decreased ability to file discrimination lawsuits in Missouri) and, more importantly, is not directed to any particular race of people, but rather, to all U.S. citizens:

The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens to avoid travel to Somalia because of widespread terrorist and criminal activity. Militants associated with both the al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist group, al-Shabaab, and the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) operate with relative impunity throughout large parts of the country, including Mogadishu, and attack civilian, military, and government targets. U.S. citizens should be aware that kidnapping, bombings, murder, illegal roadblocks and other violent incidents are common throughout Somalia, including Somaliland. There is no U.S. embassy presence in Somalia. This replaces the Travel Warning dated January 11, 2017.

Nor is the travel advisory on Somalia there because Somalia is primarily black. There are similar travel advisories in place for similar reasons for other nations that are primarily Caucasian (see, e.g., https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/iraq-travel-warning.html). So the difference is simple: the NAACP’s advisory is racist and absurd, while the U.S. government’s is non-racist and serious.

You have no real argument to make at this point and are just trying to dig in after initially responding to me in a fashion that made no sense. It really wouldn’t hurt you to be a bit less reactive and a bit more reflective and thoughtful and open-minded in your approach to race issues in our increasingly race-obsessed world.