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Originally Posted by noonereal
My mom is voting the republic line this Tuesday. She is 81 and is not comfortable with someone born in Africa being President.
She wants every teabag candidate in the country to win but would not vote for Sarah Palin if she was running for something right now. "Sarah just does not know enough, yet."(of course she does not know anything about the other leaders of the teabag set)
I guess this is a perfect example of mass psychology in action and Fox has succeeded.
Sorry guys, I am pretty down on the human species. |
My mom is voting the republic line this Tuesday. She is 81 and is not comfortable with someone born in Africa being President.
Interesting timing. Your mom would have been in her late teens when WW2 ended. During the war for the most part, blacks and whites fought and died alongside each other, watched each others backs. After 1945 things edged back towards the way they were in the 1930's. Your moms formative years would have been slap dab in the middle of this.
I don't know you or your family background, but for the sake of argument, if your mom was brought up in middle class middle America, for the most part she would have been brought up in a culture where what we now see as racial insult would have been perfectly acceptable. "Amos & Andy", that kind of thing. Nobody (except maybe a few radicals in the North) would have seen anything wrong with this, it was normal.
Now you've got a black man as president; highest office in the land. This shakes up a heck of a lot of beliefs and with all due respect to her, at 81, maybe seeing what she was brought up to believe was 'normal' being turned on its head is literally, shocking.