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Racism on the Campaign Trail
May 13, 2008, 11:56 am
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I honestly had no idea that this kind of overt racism still existed.  Wow.

In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into “a horrible response,” as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated.

“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.”


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Did you hear about the fwd that was being sent around in the states claiming that Obama is Islamic?

Comment by Craig May 13, 2008 @ 4:34 pm

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