Thursday, November 4, 2010

They Hate You, Mr. President

by FishOutofWater

Mr. President you are everything that frightens them, everything that threatens their order, and everything they hate. You cannot win them over. They will always hate you. They hate you because your father was black, your mother was a white intellectual woman, because you are educated and because you are successful. Your very existence threatens their world.

At a blood red precinct in a small North Carolina town, I handed out Democratic voter information sheets to all who would take them. Out of the hundreds of white voters who walked up to vote, I was hard pressed to hand out a dozen. Blacks and Hispanics gladly took them. I chatted with the Republican candidates for local office and listened to what they said to their supporters. They hate you Mr. President. Evangelical white voters came united by hatred for you on a mission against you and Democrats who supported you.



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