2 swastikas defaced NE Heights Obama sign last night

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Permalink Reply by Gemini Goddess on October 16, 2008 at 2:22pm

Nice...very nice! (And I say that absolutely sarcastically!!!)

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Permalink Reply by FactWino on October 16, 2008 at 2:32pm

Unfortunately, that's not that surprising. There are still a lot of closet racists out there. In the south, they aren't even closeted. This NYT article was very disturbing. One really good point that it makes is that people who may be against Obama because of his race can use other reasons, like inexperience, in public.

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Permalink Reply by Lana on October 16, 2008 at 7:39pm

I find this article disturbing because the NYT writer only included interviews with the most stupid people he could find. Not all the white people in the south are racist or stupid, but he didn't do a very good job of finding a balanced opinion. Of course, that's not as "newsworthy" as an article about dumb Southerners. I'd have to disagree with your statement that "In the south, they aren't even closeted." You can go anywhere in this country and find people who will make very open racist statements. This is not something that you will find just in the south.

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Permalink Reply by dolores on October 17, 2008 at 9:07am

I completely agree. I lived in the south for 15 yrs,although I am not from the south. I have lived in all parts of the country, and I am here to tell you that the racism that people like to think only applies to the south, can be found anywhere in this country. Boston in the very recent past has had some very big issues with racism,and I use it only as an example as it is far from the south both geographically and culturally. As a matter of fact, Atlanta is probably the most favored place of white collar, middle class and wealthy blacks. The blacks who families had left the south in the last 20-30 years are moving back to Atlanta in record numbers.
Its way to easy and so predictable to just look at the south, and besides in my opinion, racism is not the biggest problem in America.............its about money, the haves and the have nots. What I want to know is when are the poor and blue collar, or what ever is the pc term these days for the under class, the bottom of the heap going to realize that voting for a candidate thats going to thump a bible or let them have assault rifles or ban abortion is not going to educate your kids, give them good health care when they get sick, or help them go to collage. No, they will hand you your gun, and then steal from you and your kids.

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Permalink Reply by FactWino on October 17, 2008 at 6:10pm

Good points. Not everyone hides their racism, and it certainly isn't limited to the south.

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Permalink Reply by Pete on October 23, 2008 at 9:16pm

My experience is that racism is much more overt in places like small town Michigan, small town Wisconsin, and blue collar Boston (where I have family and friends) than anything I've encountered in the last couple of decades in the South.

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Permalink Reply by dolores on October 23, 2008 at 10:04pm

Just adding to this subject of racism and the south. I saw a black woman interviewed, about 14 yrs ago.
It was a show on racism and the ways it shows up in different parts of the country. She had originally been from the south, and had figured like every just assumes, that it was better in the north, so she moved north and lived , worked and went to school there for 10 yrs. She was moving back to the south, and the interviewer asked her Why? Her answer " I like to know just how my crackers gonna crumble" That pretty much say it all.

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Permalink Reply by Samantha Anne Scott on October 23, 2008 at 10:10pm

I think we've established that racism exists throughout the good ol' US of A. So, the real question is: what can we all do in our everyday lives to combat it?

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Permalink Reply by Tricross on October 16, 2008 at 2:43pm

NBC Nightly News had a segment on that. It is called the "Bradly Effect". Google it and you will get more info than you can stand.

@FactWino. Be careful not to fall into the thinking that if someone does not choose Obama, they are racists.

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Permalink Reply by FactWino on October 17, 2008 at 6:14pm

You're right, many people certainly are against Obama for his politics, opinions and the like. I was trying to make the same point about the Bradley Effect, but didn't bother to look up the name for it, like you.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Schmidt on October 16, 2008 at 2:47pm

That's a shame. Somebody simply stole mine yesterday. I immediately put up another one, along with a smaller sign: "Note to person who stole my first sign. You can keep stealing them. I'll keep putting them up...and every sign that is stolen, I'll give another $25 to Obama." Here's hoping my piggy bank holds out! ;-)

But seriously - this election is illustrating the best and the worst of America. On one hand, I could despair, looking at the videos of the Palin rallies and reading posts such as this. On the other, 85,000 people jammed a stadium to see an African-American named Barack Hussein Obama accept the Democratic presidential nomination, 40 years to the day after Dr. King's landmark speech.

It was a real eye-opener for me when an African-American neighbor of mine told me that having grown up in west Texas where they hang black men, he's never felt like he was part of America, until now.

Hmmm...maybe I'd better go stock up on some more signs...

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Permalink Reply by Balletmom on October 16, 2008 at 2:49pm

It is not only Obama signs being defaced and destroyed. A nieghbor had some pretty horrible things written on her McCain sign last week and just yesterday I witnessed someone harrassing a women because she had a McCain/Palin bumper sticker. It was very ugly and abusive and I had to threaten to call the police before this person let up and walked away.

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