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In reply to the discussion: "I didn't know how racist America was until it elected its first black President." [View all]Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I chuckled to hear the pundits on the TV machine talking about a "post racial America".
They act like there is 100% public participation in elections.
There isn't.
Half of this country doesn't vote. Many of them could tell you details about every contestant in "Survivor" or who ate a bug on a dare but paid ZERO attention to politics until they woke up in 2008 hearing that there was a black man in THEIR White House and they flipped out. They flipped channels until they discovered FOX "News" who told them the black guy stole the election and wasn't even an American but some Muslim terrorist from "Kenya" which they figure must be in the Middle East.
Tell them different and they raise their voices in anger and if you're white they treat you like you're a traitor to not only the country but to your race.