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

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102. what's interesting is the dearth of "leaders" condemning the voters' racism.

we have plenty of politicians and pundits, usually republicans, who dog whistle or even say overtly racist things to appeal to racist voters.

we also have some other politicians and pundits, nearly always democrats, condemning those other politicians and pundits.


but where are the people telling the bigoted VOTERS that theirs is an unacceptable attitude? that hate and fear eat you up from the inside? that there's a better way?


as long as our society seems comfortable with a notable portion of the voting population basing their electoral decisions on racism and racist appeals; as long as the racist bloc is just another pool of voters and donors for politicians to compete over; as long as the anger and outrage is deflected on to the so-called leaders instead of the actual racist power base; we will never get past this problem and we will continue to have uncomfortable quotes and condemnation and maybe apologies or backtracking, meaning and accomplishing nothing.