Sobbing Bernie Sanders Volunteer Goes Viral With Tale of ‘Sick’ Trump Voters

[CoffeeCat]

79. She said she had been calling voters for three hours

If I'm not mistaken, she was calling in the South--and she is not from the South. Perhaps she is from the Midwest or a part of the country where racism isn't as prevalent or seen?

Maybe this was a shock to her.

I can totally see that. I live in Iowa and the state is 96 percent white. You would think that this makes us racist. Actually, it makes us naive about racism, because we aren't exposed to racism. My 15- and 16-year olds couldn't believe it when I told them that there are racists out there. My daughter said, "Mom that can't be true. How could anyone be like that? Wouldn't people hate them?"

I imagine that if my daughter saw or heard people talking about blacks or Hispanics in racists ways and referring to them as animals, she would have been incredibly upset, just like this girl.

We have raised our daughters to value all human beings and to be empathetic. They don't "get" that in some areas of the country people are racist. They can't even comprehend that a person would be so evil. Some kids aren't exposed to racism--they have a hard time accepting that human beings behave in this manner.

We've only had one incident happen. The girls had friends over and one of the friends made a very disparaging remark to an Asian girl who was at our home. My girls came to me the next day, very upset about it. We agreed to do the right thing and we called the girl's parents. We went over to their home and chatted with them, and we assured the girl's parents that this would never happen again and we let them know that this was unacceptable behavior in our home--and our girls apologized. The girls dropped the friend who made the remark. So...they may be in shock when racist crap happens, but they have absolutely NO tolerance for that kind of behavior when it occurs.

They don't understand a world that would be like this.