MTSU student learns a lesson in American bigotry
Racism rears it’s ugly head
MTSU student Danielle Ross is mentioned at the the beginning of a Washington Post article on what her and her fellow campaigners have experienced while working for Barack Obama.
WaPost:
“The first person I encountered was like, ‘I’ll never vote for a black person,’ ” recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. “People just weren’t receptive.”
For all the hope and excitement Obama’s candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed — and unreported — this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They’ve been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they’ve endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can’t fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.
This next account doesn’t surprise me. Growing up near Binghamton, NY on the PA border, we often referred to the rural PA county to our south as “Pennsyltucky.” The following account seems to confirm the stereotype:
Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One night was all she could take: “It wasn’t pretty.” She made 60 calls to prospective voters in Susquehanna County, her home county, which is 98 percent white. The responses were dispiriting. One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn’t possibly vote for Obama and concluded: “Hang that darky from a tree!”
Read all the gory details from the emerging racist movement against Obama. I guess this was inevitable in the country that enslaved Africans and brought us the KKK.
William, allow me to introduce you to the Elephant in the Room.
From the article:
Pennsylvania’s primary process is a closed election, which means she’s calling registered Democrats.
These aren’t racist Republicans or closed-minded independents. These are bigots proudly identifying with the Democratic party.
Does it mean all Democrats are bigots? No. But it’s clear that the racist, homophobic label fits some Democrats just as well as it fits those evil Neo-Con Republicans.
Thank you for pointing that out, racism is not owned by a political party, I never made that assertion in this post.
However, I suggest that in the peception of blacks in America, racism would definitely be associated with one political party more than the other.
William, don’t you call Bush a chimp? Why is that okay and this isn’t?
William I voted for Ezola Foster for VP (black woman) in 2000 did YOU ?
I guess this was inevitable in the country that enslaved Africans and brought us the KKK.
Did you really write that, William?
Yes he did Ned. That’s the way he views this country. He hates it.
That sort of douchnozzledness gets him lots of dates with stringy-haired doe-eyed zombiefied hippie chicks, though.