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[WillYourVoteBCounted]

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Home of the Hillarybillies

Posted by Kevin K. on 05/12/08 at RumpRoast

We now have a new term:
Leaving a Sugg trail.

And I can understand the fear Wanda Gibson possesses.
If I were a double bacon cheeseburger, I’d be fucking terrified of her.

I'm WillYourVoteBCounted and since I was born and raised in WVA I can approve this message.

[sasquatch]

1. Hillary does know that these people will stab her in the back in October?

:shrug:

[Muttocracy]

2. It's hard to imagine there at that many "problems" with blacks when there are so few of them.

My mom grew up in WV and never saw a black person in person until she was in high school.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

5. when I grew up there my town was divided by the railroad tracks

one color on one side, another on the other side.

I didn't go to school with any black children in elementary school, but
finally in high school there was slightly more diversity.

[NeedleCast]

3. Slightly Terrifying

That there are still places in the US - more than some probably think - that hold views like this. The last "dinner table" lady interviewed looked like she was scared to say the word black. She kept referring to Obama as the "other" race. One lady who wont vote for Obama because of his middle name. What the fuck is that? I don't care if a person's name is Hilter Mao McStalin, if I think they're a good candidate, I'll vote for them.

[Rose Siding]

6. I'm from WV and it breaks my heart to hear some of those things

Notice the plastic chairs and formica tables in that restaurant? That's probably the nicest place in town. It's certainly no excuse but economic oppression does explain, to some extent, the need to find an "other" to blame.

They don't have kids away at college who might bring home Latino or African American friends to change their long-standing perceptions.

I can attest that some of the sweetest, kindest people I've ever known are in WV. But the racial chasm is real. That pro-Obama woman at the table is taking a very brave and enlightened position. She came to that conclusion on her own, likely not because any of her family or friends contributed to it. So there's hope.

Hope!

[Muttocracy]

10. I think poverty and fear are linked a bit.

You are more afraid of unknown people when you are more afraid of competing with others. If nothing else, being exposed to more things in the world opens your mind. My parents move up and out a bit in the world and expanded their world view a bit - with the help of my dad's college degree and higher income. I went to a vastly different part of the country for college and the rest of my adult life - else my world view would be much closer to that of my cousins (who as far as I know are not racists, but they have a much narrower view of the world in general than I do).

And yes, there is hope. Each generation, all over the country.

[democracy1st]

14. Now hopefully no one will name their kid Hitler

:nuke:

[gateley]

4. Kudos to that one lone voice for Obama --

it's gutsy to be the only one to speak out like that, and that woman had obviously given it some thought. :headbang:

[happygoluckytoyou]

7. tough to be a negro these days

ever since them black rioters and them coming over here to take all the good slave jobs away from working field hands, i been scared of them negros. usta be billy bob and jethro could just throw on a hood and a bedsheet and hang a few of them, but nowadays they got them civil rights and equal opportunities... damn uppity folks. if i had another tooth i'd bite the bastard.

[RBInMaine]

8. "We've had of enough 'Hussein'." Aw gee...can we say IGNORANCE please.

[MNBrewer]

9. and yet

when you refer to them as racist and ignorant...... you're being an elitist.

[MindMatter]

12. So you're recommending I not go with my

booger-eating morons take?

[cliffordu]

18. I guess fucking idiots is prolly out, too, huh??

[MindMatter]

20. I would also avoid "Inbred retards"

[cliffordu]

21. And gutless shitsucking cretins, as well.

[MindMatter]

22. Definitely not that one.

[melody]

24. Yes, because they aren't all racist or ignorant

My family escaped the south, but the poverty in West Virginia is horrendous and that needs to be considered in putting down these people. They simply don't have the money to educate each generation which has a cumulative effect in terms of ignorance. We owe them a decent, basic education. If they don't have one, the fault is largely with the Federal government.

[AtomicKitten]

11. Wow. An Obama supporter sighting in West Virginia!

:thumbsup:

[TheWarIzaLie]

13. Obama can count on the white folks in this WV household tomorrow

[iamthebandfanman]

15. what i experience in kentucky

is very similar...
you have a lil bit of each type in the video...
ive heard the middle name thing brought up and the whole fear of a black man being president. its sad. but i think maybe the younger generations are pushing past that, which is the good news. i think it runs so deep culturely it takes a while to break. not that its an excuse.

my family owned a textile mill in eastern kentucky(near a town with around 1000-2000 people or so) in which they had hired a night watchman of another race... long story short, they burned it down...hoping he was in it from what i understand... this was during the late 60s i believe(not positive tho).

like i said in another post, i was suprised by the amount of obama signs ive seen pop up in my kentucky town.. but then again maybe obama supporters are just more visible and dont reflect the general sentiment ;)

[democracy1st]

17. thanks

[iamthebandfanman]

19. i just like to add

notice how the woman said she was 'afraid'...
its fear, not anger or hatred necessarily, that drives bigotry in these areas in my humble opinion.
the only way that something like fear of another culture or race can truely be confronted, addressed, and accepted is through being around that said group of people and getting the opportunity to see they are just human beings like you. alot of these people havent had that opportunity, for whatever reason.

like i said, i really think this is something that is dying out with time... each generation that passes nails the coffin of bigotry shut.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

23. the young people leave WVa in droves, more than other states

so its hard to change the mind set when the young people abandon ship.

They are the changers.

[iamthebandfanman]

25. yeah, i understand what you are saying...

i graduated high school in 2000, and many of the people i knew left as well... but ive found they are all now coming back...
so i know, atleast in my area of kentucky, the youth who are more open minded tend to come back once theyve matured a bit ;)

[Enthusiast]

26. I live in S.E. Ohio

It might be as bad. The Muslim rumors and Hussein middle name are tangible barriers to Obama here. Most blue construction workers tune into Rush Limbaugh on their work site radios every day. It is the only perspective they hear, that and Faux News.

[democracy1st]

16. wow

actually they sounded somewhat on top of things,as for Miss Sugg she's smokin some serious Faux manure