Reply #40: I was never exposed to these scumbags until I moved to Florida

[Lorien]

My town in Ohio was so liberal when I was a kid that I really thought racism was all something in America's distant past. Our classes in school were very mixed, and since I lived close to OSU there were people of every imaginable race and Nationality around me. The first time I became fully aware of racism was when my elementary school screened the series "Roots" for us. I was a sensitive kid, and I was so sickened and horrified by what I saw that for months later I felt very embarrassed and ashamed to be white. But I still thought that racism was like slavery-a thing of the distant past. When I moved here to Florida I heard a white person used the "N" word for the first time, and I remember shaking with rage because of it. Now with so many of them crawing out of their holes like cockroaches, I'm having nightmares! Seriously; I've been having awful dreams about rednecks teaching their children how to hate and whipping up mobs to attack random black people on the streets. I hope that it never comes to that-I mean hell, most of those people are cowards at their core, but some ARE completely deranged. I live very close to a large African American neighborhood, and I worry that some kook might take out his frustrations with an Obama win on my neighbors. I wish we were a more evolved species. :-(