We are going to win, but what this election tells me is that our country

[still_one]

is becoming racist again

[Joylaughter]

1. Again?

My experience has told me that Jim Crow i s alive and well in America. Too bad.

[still_one]

2. I hate to live through that shit again

[billyoc]

24. Actually, we prefer the term

"Jeb Crow". ;)

[Politicub]

3. I'm on pins and needles watching the returns

I do hope we win.

Kerry will be very adept at using the bully pulpit for civil rights.

:bounce:

[K-W]

4. Ignore

mispost

[Kipepeo]

5. Racists have become emboldened under Bush

just look at freeperville...they think they have a divine right to their racism and that the pResident supports them. He sure sends them the signals they're looking for.

[Iris]

19. Yeah, but he's against the Dred Scott decision!?! n/t

[iconoclastic cat]

6. Please explain?

Do you mean more racist than before? Are you seeing something new in all of this?

[acmavm]

7. If you think that it hasn't always been racist, you're fooling yourself.

The WASP mentality has never died. Sad to say.

[still_one]

11. After the 60's and 70's, I thought things were getting better

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. Weren't you paying attention when the Civil Rights Act was gutted...

...and Affirmative Action ridiculed?

[DIKB]

8. Under Shrub

they feel that they have Divine Guidance and acceptance.

[Cleita]

9. And sexist.

What is this moral values thing anyway? It's about abortion and gays and nothing else. Murdering other people while we invade their country I guess isn't immoral.

[Catherine Vincent]

10. What is it with the South?

People please feel pity for us DUers in the South.:-)

[DuaneBidoux]

12. Whatever party most represented regression and racism and repression

has ALWAYS (and yes I'm sorry) represented the South. Lincoln, was of course, a Republican. Then Republicans were the party of the North and East. The Republican party of the past was an inclusive party (at least racially). You have probably heard of (to paraphrase) the quote from President Johnson who was so courageous in civil rites when he said "The Democrats have lost the South for 3 generations." (or something to that effect).

[liberalhistorian]

15. Well, you know, you could

always move!!! I know I sure would if I were in the South. :evilgrin: :bounce:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

13. What do you mean "becoming"? Where have YOU been living?

[liberalhistorian]

16. I think what he/she means

is that it's becoming far more overt and even acceptable again, whereas during the 70's, 80's, and most of the 90's, it wasn't.

[still_one]

18. That is exactly what I mean

thanks, and I am a he

[Democat]

17. Racism has always been one of the things that draws certain people Repub

It's not new and it never went away.

Maybe it's more ok to be racist now in public because of Bush, but it's always been there in that party.

[natrat]

20. no you meant fascist or is it racist

[still_one]

21. both

fascist is the corporation take over of our government and media

racist is the jim crow type harassment at the polls

[BootinUp]

22. No difference from here.

Look, when you have leaders, (boy kings), that use divisive social problems for political gain what do you expect?

We have not gotten better on this problem since the 80's.

[stepnw1f]

23. It Always Has Been...

When I look at some ignorant wonder bread head white folks, I feel sick to my stomach. I feel so far out in left field, so juxtaposed from them all, and at the same time, ashamed I share the same color.

Racism is about maintaining a convenient reality in which they live in. When they share their displeasure with other people, it is like a whining baby who feels discomfort at the loss of privilege.

[brook]

25. What we've got...

is a quasi-theocracy. Same mind set as racist but higher octane. Another * term will be more than our undoing. I cannot bear to think of it.

[Kellis]

26. the voter supression tactics

that the repigs have used prove beyond doubt that rascism is very much alive.
Sick bastards.