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frazzled

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14. Why are you angry? It's an article about racism.
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 12:49 AM
Jul 2014

If you read the article (click on the image), it's about the right-wing voters in Virginia who voted against Cantor, largely, the author claims, because of Brat's emphasis on a photo that showed Cantor standing next to the president. His conclusion (and you can agree with it or not), is that these right-wingers would vote even against a powerful incumbent because their racism trumps all.

Do you disagree that right-wingers are racist? If you do, I can tell you that when I canvassed for the Obama campaign in 2008, mr. frazzled and I were driven off the walkway by a voter who came out and started a tirade about how he would never vote for "that filthy n***er." There were so many N words in that man's hateful diatribe I decided to just look him straight in the face and show him that his hate would not intimidate us. As official campaign representatives, we could not respond ... a look was all I had. He was not the only racist we met that day in a small conservative town in Jackson, Michigan. But he was the most rabid and vocal. By the way, we won Jackson, Michigan.

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