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Cos what?
In the next, mean just what it say, in the next. I hope we get a Black Conservative Republican President sooner but I have no doubt by mid century we will have a Black President.
Bigotry and racism are no where near the same thing.
America is NOT a racist country. America does bigotry issues, about race, sex, weight, religion and origin of birth. Your comments show you are not stranger to these issues.
Of the reasons not to vote for Barrak Obama the following are steeped in bigotry;
His race,
His name,
His skin color,
His father's heritage.
To say that a small but still in the millions of likely white voters who still strongly hold these views are going to all of a sudden turn their eyes away from their historical prejudice and over look them to vote fro Obama is naive.
I wish his skin color and name didn't matter. I doesn't matter to me but to millions of people it will and lets not just lump white people into this or think they are all bigoted red neck, with rifles and NASCAR stickers. 1,000,000's of white Jews will not vote for Obama that would otherwise vote Democrat. Millions of Hispanics will not vote for him either solely because of where his Father is from. Millions of Asians will not vote for him for the same reason. Again to deny this is foolish.
That's bigotry but it is not racism and over the course of time, bigotry can be over come.
I doubt there was a person in the crowd, or for that matter in the nation upon hearing Dr. King's Dream Speech in 1963, believed that the DEMOCRAT Party, The Party of
segregation, of Bull Connor, of condoned lynching, of Jim Crow and Party of bringing back the Confederate Battle Flag as official state flag to protest Brown vs The Board of Education, would 45 years later have a a Nominee for President and man of African heritage.
Some may have hoped but nobody believed.
Look how fast 45 years is.
I don't know if you have a special conservative dictionary but mine tells me racism and bigotry are synonyms.
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