Get It Right and You're Elitist !
Anyone honest will confirm what Barack Obama said about small-town America and its fears, biases, easy refuges, bigotry, phobias of all and anything the least bit different. And Hillary is also smart enough to know how right he is. (She need only recall an episode or two she experienced in the small town of DC.) It would be nice if the thoughtfulness of Obama and his appeals to think could gain sway, whether he wins or not!
Might I ask you to recall:
- Growing up in such an American small town and hearing this wonderful explanation from people that they of course have nothing against XXXX : "Some of my best friends are XXXX." You knew better than to ask them to tell you the name of a single XXXX they knew.
- Those people who tell you the definition of marriage is man+woman and how evil homosexuality is and then add that they don't mean you of course, cause you and your mate are nice and helped your mom move in to her new place or tried to help her in her last months and they all loved you both in that little nest.
- Your cousins who got sent off to a private christian academy when the public schools were finally totally integrated and therefore of course no good anymore.
- That poor girl from Boston whose father got transfered to the south and had to say "park your car in the Harvard yard" everyday at recess for an entire school year just so everybody could laugh at her accent.
- How whites loved to call any black who knew more than they did "uppity".
- The lady who explained how she conducts her children's home-schooling by praying, reading the bible, drawing bible pictures, counting the generations in the bible, and then praying some more.
- That bushbaby who has played the redneck game long enough to last for the rest of all time.
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