Nor with the Freepers, who have a suggestion for a role that Barack Obama could play in a McCain administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/a> Ha! You see, it’s funny because it’s horribly racist.<\/p>\n Is this stuff appalling? Disheartening? Sickening? Yep. Surprising? Not so much. The racists — and there are a lot of them — can’t be dealing well with the notion that their president is going to be a man who they’d rather see shining their shoes…or dangling from a tree. And while they’ve done a good job of keeping the masks in place so far, referring to Obama as a “celebrity” instead of “uppity,” for example — we’re three weeks and a day away from their belief in white superiority being destroyed for all time, and they’re bitter about it.<\/p>\n The McCain campaign isn’t responsible for this stuff directly, of course, but they’re playing their part<\/a>, telling Virginia supporters to tie Obama to al Qaeda via Bill Ayers, because “both bombed the Pentagon,” and running the aforementioned celebrity ads, which were long on racial subtext and short on sanity.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for the racists, it won’t work. Most Americans can accept an African-American leader. That doesn’t mean racism is cured in those Americans — everyone in this country harbors internalized racism (and sexism, and homophobia), and we all need to be aware of that, and we need to work to eliminate it. But there are still a lot of people who harbor more than internalized racism, who are active racists, even if they try not to view themselves that way. And those people are only going to get more vicious, more ugly, and more frightening as the election draws near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barack Obama’s going to win this election. That is not going down well with this guy. Nor with the Freepers, who have a suggestion for a role that Barack Obama could play in a McCain administration: Ha! You see, it’s … Continue reading ![\"obamasolution.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/obamasolution.jpg\")
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