Florida RACIST voting for Obama on a sneek tip read what there saying WOW!!

[bigdarryl]

http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/310592869639503.php

[still_one]

1. It demonstrates just how much all people have been hurt by the last eight years

It is also sad, but at the same time indicates hope for a better future

[Historic NY]

4. I bet they long for the Clinton yrs too.

[still_one]

6. Sex probably seems pretty insignificant to them now /nt

[progressivebydesign]

2. It reminds me that a lot of racism is ignorance-based, and can be overcome.

So much of the old school "racists" are operating on decades and decades of ignorance about people of other races. If some racism is ignorance based, then it would make sense that education (in the form of learning more about a candidate like Obama) would move them to vote for him.

[Lorien]

3. Here's a snip:

The Road to the White House – Racists voting for Obama?
Published on: 10/26/08.

BY WAYNE BROWNE

IN FLORIDA, a middle-aged white Obama supporter, helping to fill in an absentee ballot for his traditionally Democratic, but bigoted, 95-year-old father, tried to slip Obama past him by suggesting he tick the "straight Democratic" box. The father mumbled assent.

Then, as he was leaving, the old man raised his head. "Make sure you vote for that coloured boy," he told him.

In rural Indiana, the young po' white woman who opened the door to an Obama canvasser couldn't say who she was voting for.

"Who're we voting for?" she called to her husband, who was watching the game. "We're voting for the nigger!" came the reply.

"We're voting for the nigger," the young woman obligingly told the canvasser.

Goes both ways

Such anecdotes may be funny but by themselves prove nothing, of course: there're just as many stories pointing the other way.

Last week, for example, in a gun store in West Virginia, sales went through the roof.

Residents had heard that "the Muslim" was going to be president, and was going to ban the sale of handguns.

[abumbyanyothername]

5. In defense of my mother

I believe that "colored" is a generational term used by people of a certain age and of all races to describe African Americans.

[FLyellowdog]

9. This is true...

this is the terminology of two or more generations ago.

[SteveM]

7. Which goes to show being racist is not the same as being anti-Obama (nt)

[nc4bo]

8. I got chills reading this....

http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/310592869639503.php

And the other way is through voter fraud/ suppression. Early reports of large-scale disenfranchisement of African-American and young, first-time voters on the grounds of inconsistently spelt IDs, minor clerical errors, or changes of address resulting from home foreclosures – to say nothing of several reported instances in which early voters pushed the button for Obama only to see "McCain" light up, this, incidentally, on the same machines deemed to have been tampered with in Ohio in 2004 – have been widespread enough to cause alarm.

The Democratic Party has been characteristically lethargic in policing such reports. The Obama campaign (which reportedly has 5 000 lawyers ready to fan out across the country on November 4) has had to vigilantly respond to each one on its own.

The best antidote to such concerns, of course, would be for Obama to rack up such huge margins in key battleground states that their outcome can't be stolen or taken from him "under the table".

It remains to be seen if he can do that in the nine days left in the campaign.

Where HAS the DNC been in all this?

[liberal1973]

10. LOL..

In that same editorial another, racist had to ask her husband who they're voting? lol...Interesting way of not thinking on your own.

[Undercurrent]

11. It is a generational thing. Especially in the south.

Some member's of first husband's family are old southerner's who stood strongly for segregation in the years before the civil rights movement. They still call African American "colored?

But the term is also used by some older African Americans. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP, is such a throw back to the pre civil rights movement era.