I am an older white woman, a retired teacher.

[Jakes Progress]

445. I tried reading all this crap.

How in the hell did they get "racism" out of what you wrote?

It would be better if people who claim to support equal rights would try to see more than age and skin color in people.

Wear a nazi uniform and I'm gonna judge you. I don't care what your color or age. Applaud a bill oreilly speech and I'm gonna judge you regardless of your income or religion. But never do I prejudge based on those elements. If someone thinks I do, then they are the ones who prejudge.

(Oh. And how the hell can you know someone's color on DU? It's the internet. I could say I'm a 12 year old girl from Samoa. You wouldn't know. I don't decide how old someone is or what color someone is by reading their post. Even when they tell you they are this or that, they could be lying. I mean, this is the internet. Heck, I think the posts that stir this stuff up most likely come from paid agitators from the other side.)

It is this kind of stuff that makes me give up on politics. As I age, I become more virulently liberal. Show me a Socialist candidate with any world awareness and speaking ability, and I might switch parties after voting liberal for almost five decades. (First campaign volunteer effort was for Barbara Jordan's state senate election in 1966)

Hang in there Mad.