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Racism? What Racism? Where? Obama's Volunteers Will Tell You.

15:52 H | Topics: Race - US Presidential Race 2008

Pshaw, racism, smacism.

Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One night was all she could take: "It wasn't pretty." She made 60 calls to prospective voters in Susquehanna County, her home county, which is 98 percent white. The responses were dispiriting. One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn't possibly vote for Obama and concluded: "Hang that darky from a tree!"

Via / Diary of An Angry Black Woman

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