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ProgressiveEconomist

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1. IMO many want to feel patriotic again, and end the dissonance

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 10:31 AM

Jul 2012

between their patriotism and feeling their deeply-ingrained racial prejudice is vaguely unpatriotic when the POTUS undeniably is a Black man.

They want the "good old days" back, when any kind of expression of prejudice, racism, and race hatred was as American as cherry pie.

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Those genuinely �uncomfortable� that the fellow in the Oval Office is a black man... Racist? [View all] bigtree Jul 2012 OP

IMO many want to feel patriotic again, and end the dissonance ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 #1

As an old white guy I can assure you that many old white guys are racist to the core... Scuba Jul 2012 #2

I can see some of that bigtree Jul 2012 #3

All I know abelenkpe Jul 2012 #4