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Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:07 PM

Oh lord this racism (and ignorance and it's apologists) ...

... is killing me inside.

"not someone I can personally relate to"

"not our kind of people"

"privileged"

"A lot of people around here just haven't spent much time with black people. When they get to know a black person, it's OK."

"Obama's fate in November may in part depend on his ability to better familiarize the more insular segments of white America with an under-reported but growing post-civil rights demographic: the well-educated black urban middle class."

This is tiring.

Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:26 PM

I love the 80's

Also, I'm confused.

Unfamiliar and under-reported really?

But I thought Heathcliff Huxtable was the most popular father on American television as recently as 1990 ...

It's all coming back ... like it never left -

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