This Is Sad

[THUNDER HANDS]

Run time: 03:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8J9laUNgL4   Posted on YouTube: May 19, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 23, 2008 By DU Member: THUNDER HANDS Views on DU: 734

 
Just a sad, sorry state of this nation in the early stages of the 21st century and some areas views on race and elections.

[reflection]

1. agreed.

:grr:

[closeupready]

2. I had a discussion with a guy who said the same thing, that

as a black person, Obama would put black people's interests before white people's interests. :eyes: Lot of stupid freaking racists out there.

[Steepler0t]

3. The racist shit is typicial but

I am surprised AJ got interviews without the crew being lynched.

Maybe they put fox stickers on their trucks and cameras.

[RazBerryBeret]

4. hmmm.....that guy is afraid of being

"put in the back of the bus"....you got bigger problems, buddy.

yep, my grandfather was a coal miner in KY...I get it...

[buff2]

5. This is just more proof

of why most southerners vote republican. It's the race thing. My husband is originally from Kentucky,and he is voting for Obama.He really likes him and says he will be a good President. Of course I feel the same. :hi:

[Poll_Blind]

6. But best of all, I loved how that journalist just lied through her fucking teeth.

  I grew up with a lot of racism around me and it just never "set" well with me. To this day, and maybe I can't articulate it as well as I should, I don't really have it in me to hate ignorant racists who are open about it. Because they're so goddamned ignorant, they don't know to hide it; how offensive and damnable it is.

  You know there are some people who live in towns their whole lives and the population of that town might be double what your supermarket is during a busy spell. Their whole lives.

  It doesn't mean that their racism is any less wrong or less dangerous. I just don't have it in my heart to hate them. They don't, in some primitive sense, get what's wrong about it.

  BUT...

  There's the fuckers who swear up and down all day that they never witness racism, like this reporter did, or that the topic of nigras never comes up around the dinner table- and they fly the confederate flag, usually above their state flag, outside. Those are vipers in the grass and as far as I'm concerned if something bad happened to them, there's a shitload of Indian kids and baby seals and spotted owls ahead of them in my "List of things to take pity on."

  By the way, if any of you are familiar with Malcolm X and his career and how his opinions of whites changed with exposure, there is an analog here: At the beginning of his career he was very anti-White, called caucasions "The White Devil". Because he didn't know better. Part of the Nation of Islam was this teaching and it included that no white could ever belong to Islam.

  So years later, Malcolm X makes the Haj and, of course, sees whites, blacks, and every color in-between making the pilgrimage and worshipping at Mecca. It caused a paradigm shift in his thinking. He...like the "ignorant" whites I speak of above...were/are a victim of ignorance.

  He came back from the trip and made changes based on these experiences which dropped all that "White Devil" bullshit. And the leader of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Mohammed (sp?) eventually had him gunned down for it, in front of his kids.

  There is a difference, I think, to why some turn to racism. Some don't know any better, don't have any experiences which would support a "wider" world view.

  And there are others who should know better, do know better, but choose that evil.

  In my heart I judge them differently. The ignorant can be taught, exposed to a bigger, more inclusive world. Those that choose this evil are beyond salvation of any sort and deserve calamity in this life and, God willing, the next.

PB

[woolldog]

7. It's Kentucky guys. What did you expect?

Thankfully it's a red state and will stay red no matter who the nominee is.

Thanks for posting the video.

[lligrd]

8. Not All Of Kentucky Is Like That

Remember, Kentucky was a Union state.

[woolldog]

9. So what if "not all" of KY is like that?

Go to CNN election center results and look over county by county results.

[lligrd]

10. Obama Never Campaigned There

I think he could have won some hearts and minds if he had. And, I think you could find pockets of people like the ones shown even here in CA.

[woolldog]

11. He never campaigned in Guam either.

Did you look at the county by county results? 90%-5% has nothing to do with not campaigning there. Those margins are absurd.

This isn't "pockets of people" in KY. It is a broad swathe of the state (esp Eastern KY; these counties are deomcratic counties). Show me that many, or any, counties in CA that were that lopsided. 93-5, 91-7, 85-15. etc http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6054753&mesg_id=6055799


http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#KY

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#val=CA

Stop making excuses for them.

[goletian]

12. yeah, i think he shoulda tried there, with a bullet proof vest and helmet,

but he shoulda gone. i cant help but feel sorry for those people.

[lligrd]

14. I Didn't Say He Should Have

I trust his judgement. I just said he didn't.

[democracy1st]

13. must see video