Protestors Storm Capital

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That was enough and then some.

Spend some time in the deep south where they don't really hide it and you'll see.  I can't post on here the things thought and said by people I used to live around.

Then you have to realize that it's all over the country...it's just more visible in the south...at least it was until Trump made it okay to loud and proud about being a White Supremacist.  They whispers became shouts when the megaphone was handed to him.

There wasn't silence before.

I had a boss say that he loved his family's maid like his mother but he wouldn't sit down to Sunday dinner with her.  Of course the maid was black.  How do you say those two things in the same sentence without choking on your words?

I live in Alabama.  I was born and raised in Mississippi.  And I am white myself (not actually yellow with holes).  So I've been around racist people all my life, although the vast majority of them will argue they are not racists at all.  They make all sorts of tangled arguments justifying themselves, but in reality it's just about race.  I suppose they don't have the capacity to understand that when more people vote for a candidate, that candidate gets elected (speaking about Obama here), whether they like it or not.

In contrast, I know black people who were quite disappointed with Obama because he didn't do enough to improve the lives of black people.

I noted when I was in the military, especially training, not only one race against another race racism but, and I don't know how to put it gently...girls I trained with who were viewed with hostility for not being "black enough" by the other black girls.  It was eye-opening for me to come from a place of 99% white people to people of every color and from all over the place and to witness the things people used to separate themselves with.