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What small-town America is saying about Obama In diners and mobile homes from New Mexico to North Carolina, I listened to working-class people try to make sense of a black president named Barack.
  • "It is imperative that the Democratic party shows that they can be empathetic to the multiple cultures of America?"

    what?! the democratic party is a rainbow, for crissakes. and anybody who doesn't know "who barack obama is" either isn't paying attention or clearly doesn't want to. and the whole idea that these "working-class people" -- said through clenched teeth -- aren't familiar with any blacks like obama because he doesn't fall into their abnormally narrow stereotypes of us is gotdamn RACISM. call it what is.

    ugh, i'm sick.

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