After Obama’s win, white backlash festers in US – Yahoo News
From Derrick on FriendFeed.
“The vitriol is flailing out shotgun-style,” says Mr. Levin. “They recognize (White Supremacist and Nationalist groups) Obama as a tipping point, the perfect storm in the narrative of the hate world – the apocalypse that they’ve been moaning about has come true.”
This was not unexpected. Sadly I expect it to get worse. On the bright side (if there can be such a thing when it comes to racial hatred) perhaps this will help expose the deep divisions that still exist in this country and help us to come to grips with them. Hopefully we can move past just dialogue and actually start taking concrete actions to attack this problem head on. We’re not a post-racial eutopia yet. We’re far from that regardless of what some people say but that doesn’t mean we should stop striving for it.
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