So when the President of the United States released his birth certificate, I may have blacked out for a few seconds--minutes. America, America, God shed something on you, 'cause you sure need it.
i just don't even know anymore, roxy. it's appalling, the number of republicans and independents who said, in that recent poll, that they doubt obama is really an amurrican. i mean, i grew up in the '50s, right? i remember LBJ and the Great Society and the end of segregation and so on, and i believed in progress and the advance of enlightened thought. and now here we are, in 2011, with racism and xenophobia and homophobia and all that crap just breaking out all over. it hurts my heart, and it scares me -- how far will the american taliban get before we swing back toward progress?
I'm beginning to think this is as far as we go. It's appalling, the number of racist bigots who swear up and down, and truly *believe*, deep in their hearts of hearts, that they are not only not racist, but wonderfully tolerant when they are no such thing.
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