Letters to the Editor
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Scared stupid
Look I'm white, and never even heard of Barack Obama until a white female friend of mine in San Antonio introduced me to the man, where he's coming from, and what he wants American politics to be about - about three years ago. Sometimes I think some crazier than shit caucazoids out there must so scared stupid, of anybody not quite as pale as they are, that they have it in their heads that any earnest Obama supporters out there who happen to be white, are perhaps some kind of frightening phenomenon of pop people who might take over the planet. One idiot poster here on salon opinionated that Obama supporters look upon O.B. as their personal Jesus Christ. The discomfort that these dim bulbs feel that people from a wide swath of ethnicities, just gets them in their discomfort zones. The real news is though, whether Obama makes it or not, there will be others candidates from outside the "accaptable" ethnic spectrum, who will step up to lead this country one day. Some people better get in the swim of a new century, because they have been told, and their shit is just old.