Don't Rush to judgement...

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The right to voice our opinions without the fear of government censorship is one of the many things the 1st Amendment guarantees us. But - in the words of The Amazing Spider-Man as he hung from the ceiling of the secret Senate Hearing with Tony Stark - "Great Power also brings with it great responsibility." (Marvel's Road to Civil War: The Amazing Spider-Man #530)
This great power is speech. It has the power to: encourage or discourage, persuade or manipulate, lift up or tear down, etc or etc. Choosing the latter would mean to abuse aforementioned power. Thus the speaker, writer, cartoonist, whoever is acting in an irresponsible way. 
People who speak - Rush Limbaugh or Don Imus or (add any other name you'd like), draw - Sean Delonas - or forward - Los Alamitos Ex-mayor Dean Grose - "racist" material aren't racist (not a psychologist so I don't deal with what they actually think or feel), they're just using their power irresponsibly. I say, to each his/her own.
My only problem is that they're acting like 1st graders...actually that's not fair to my 1st graders because my students are more mature than them. It's a classic case of wanting attention (here comes the psycho-analysis). 
There are two reasons for such behavior: a) they are no-bodies who want to make a name for themselves and be somebody or b) they were somebodies who were demoted to nobodies and they want people who knew they were somebody not to forget about them.
Unlike most, I find it quite entertaining. Their minds work something like this:

1) Attention is desperately need
2) Find something, anything to that's big enough and reaches enough people to witness this attention
3) Spin it or find the angle that will upset, enrage, offend the most amount of people
4) Say it, Draw it, Post it, Broadcast it, Share it
5) Sit back and enjoy
6) (optional) Give some lame, half-hearted excuse
7) (also optional) Give a statement or hold a press-conference to extend the attention even more
8) Repeat steps 2 - 7 every four to six months or when self-esteem runs low.

It's an Attention Addiction. There needs to be a therapy session for people like this. Wait there was and it went like this...

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