My brother is working for the Obama campaign in North Carolina. He has just been handed a new county. In his old county he had to deal with flagrant racism and segregation, open hostility and even having folks approach and threaten black voters after he talked to them. A colleague had a gun pointed at both her and the voters she was talking to at
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Did you hear about her campaign of "Obama's different, he doesn't think like good Americans like you and me"?
It does remind me of how privileged I am though. And it makes me recognize more wholly why my parents left Louisiana so quickly (for fear that the racism around them would infect their children).
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