Wow...you talked to a whole 30 people. That is quite a sampling. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Scott wrote: >> Nice backpedal Gruss. > > Well here's my experience. > > I just happen to have discussed this with, eh, maybe 30 of these > birther people, and to a person they get all worked up and eventually > they call Obama a monkey or a nigger or they say the blackhouse or say > that Michelle Obama is a black panther or any of the other racist > things people say. > > But to a person it ALWAYS comes out. > > Some these people I've know for over a decade. And maybe only 5% of > them actually admit that, yes, it's racist because they're just not > ready for a black man in the whitehouse. > > After a long discussion with one close friend about this he said > exactly that. He went on to say that he tries every day to tell > himself "today I won't be racist". This is guy who's hired people of > all races and never shown a racist thing to me ever. I was shocked. > > And he's a huge union guy and a gov't healthcare guy. So we have a > lot to argue about :) > > But this guy also admitted that his embrace of the birther stuff is, > at the end of the day, plain ole racism. > > Now could it be that only these people I've talked are racist and > nobody else is? sure. > > That's your theory. Your faith. > > I think it's nice that your faith causes you to believe the best of people. > > I'm jaded. My experience tells me you're faith is misplaced. > > So my apologies for trying to squash your faith in people's better nature. > >
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