re: Why is the country/this board so polarized?

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But with Obama, don't you think with some people it is racism?

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Of course, for SOME.

But I can bear witness to White folk I've long known, who - because of interacting with many fine Black folk and having sports heroes who are Black - had pretty much ditched the racial stereotypes that are hurtful and societally pernicious. BUT...given the blatant on obvious highly publicized chip-on-the-shoulder ("the police acted stupidly", "if I had a son..." and Holder's racial Law policy) presidency of Obama with his race politics too........well...there are real doubts and real racism on the rise, that might be casually sluffed off as unjustifiably racist...but now have taken on a statistical and existential validity. Think Detroit. Think Trayvon. Think OJ.

Holder and Obama have stirred real racism in a lot of folk who had overcome, with their race politics. Ugly stuff. God only knows where it could go from here.