I deliberately decided…
I deliberately decided that the RaceFail 09 discussion was worth spending my time on. I used pretty much all of Monday catching up on the conversation thus far, and about half of my workday today, mostly following the conversation at Whatever and posting there. Which, I just realized, means that I've used 12 hours of childcare time (which normally are the precious hours when I write/grade/prep/etc.) for this discussion. At $7.50/hr, it's cost my family $90 so far. Ouch.
Thank you for spending your time on this; I think the discussion at Scalzi’s has been fantastic, and the combination of that conversation and my obsessive reading of the rest of the conversation has significantly improved my understanding of racism.
I am indebted to you for your contribution to my understanding. 🙂
Very glad to be of help!