This ignorance is abhorrent. I am from Indiana, and some of my fellow Hoosiers are an embarrassment to educated, enlightened Americans. They embarrass themselves by hanging on to old tired stereotypes.
For someone to make the statement “I’ll never vote for a black person” belies the progress this country has made in maturing into a nation of tolerance and acceptance.
This nation is suffering from a president with the lowest approval rating ever achieved by a president and whose economic, environmental and foreign policies have almost ruined this nation. We are now faced with three choices, a black man who wants to change the direction in which this country is headed; a white man who wants to keep it going in the same direction; and a white woman who has a history of lying, theft, legal scandals, associations with lawbreakers and will stoop to any dirty tactic to win.
To these bigoted, self-centered, under-educated, rednecks there is no way they would choose the one person who could reverse our downward slide into economic ruin just because he is black. It is amazing, how far these ignorant people will drag this country down in order to serve their own selfish desires.
The self-ruinous hostility sickens me and the underlying reason for it saddens me. Ignorance and the blatant refusal to overcome it is a cancer that needs to be surgically removed. Most whites from Indiana and Pennsylvania don’t deserve the label of racists or bigots, which only intensifies the ugly contrast of those who do.
The statement was made that "White people look out for white people, and black people look out for black people." This person is missing the point of being American. He is so wrapped up in his own personal prejudicial hatred that he has drifted away from the true American spirit. This close-minded view is an embarrassment to true Americans. The sad fact is that there are whites as well as blacks who feel this way. But there is hope in knowing that this sentiment is becoming more and more isolated. The fact that it gets media play, reminding us that the scars from a darker time in our history are still felt, brings it out into the open, can somehow, hopefully, help to stamp it out. Maybe by seeing this ridiculous statement in print this person will realize how divisive this belief is. If this evil remains in the dark recesses of America’s consciousness it has no chance of being addressed and obliterated. This person has to realize he is in the minority opinion.
I am encouraged to know that this black American, this American, named Barack Obama has enough class to stay above this type of juvenile trash. Educated, enlightened adults don’t speak like these heathens and thankfully they no longer represent the majority in this society.
We have come a long way in race relations in this country, but apparently some choose to stay behind.
It is amazing to me to know that some people are still classified based solely on skin color and not character. Humans have a lot to offer each other, and skin color has nothing to do with it. People who close themselves off to that fact, choosing to hang on to the belief that they are superior to anyone who does not look like them are doomed to extinction, and quite frankly it can’t happen soon enough.
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