NPR story: confronting bigotry on the campaign trail. [View All]

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If you missed this on this afternoon's All Things Considered, take a few minutes and listen to it. It includes interviews with WV voters talking about why they won't vote for a black man. It will take your breath away. The kicker? They tell at the end of the piece that none of those who were interviewed were asked about racial issues. They voluntarily spewed their hateful, bigoted views.

Don't ever kid yourself that we've evolved.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90483754

"Campaign workers for Barack Obama have faced racial slurs and slammed doors around the country. In Indiana, one campaign office was vandalized. The Obama campaign has chosen not to publicize the incidents. Washington Post reporter Kevin Merida talks with Michele Noris about race and the Obama campaign."