Southern senator: ‘My people’ dislike Obama because he is too ‘exotic’

[Swede Atlanta]

82. Could these people be more racist?

Seriously, they may as well said that he doesn't like pork and watermelon like the rest of his people.

This is disgusting. As a northern transplant living in the South I can believe this comment. As well I can believe there are a large number of this senator's constituents that express these kinds of beliefs.

We have made progress in the area of race relations but we have a very long way to go.

Actually I think the people to whom the southern Senator refers are afraid of their own shadows - anything that doesn't look like themselves. If the person is not white, born-again, heterosexual, uneducated and poor they despise them.

It is a sad state of affairs where people close their minds to people whose life experience is different, whose background is different, etc.

But such is the sad state of affairs in this country. I have held out hope that we had a chance but I am coming to the conclusion that I will uproot myself and move somewhere else in the world where civility and sanity are in the majority.