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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (435130)11/16/2008 4:26:13 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1573198
 
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

In fairness, the kids didn't know what 'assassinate Obama' meant.....they overheard an adult say it and so they began chanting it.

Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."

Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change


The fact they believe this way suggests they will stand in the way of progress all the way through the next few years.
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