Racists for Obama? - Ben Smith - Politico.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 19 Oct 08
  

  sophie black

  us election

• 18 Oct 08
  

  Clay Burell

  Fascinating and hopeful.
  
  I've seen my own hometown, Chattanooga, Tennessee, change from a place in which interracail (black-white) couples would never be seen in working-class bars in the 1980s, to a place where precisely that was what I saw in the '90s, with nobody staring or blinking.
  
  So hopeful.

  elections08 economy racism culture usa obama

  • The notion that there might be “racists for Obama,” as one Democrat called them, comes against the backdrop of a country whose white voters largely accept the notion of a black president.
    
    
    
    “The economy is trumping racism,” said Kurt Schmoke, the dean of Howard University Law School and a former Baltimore mayor. “A lot of people who we might think wouldn’t vote their pocketbook because of race — now they are.”

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