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I don’t believe, by any stretch of the imagination, that this is an issue with the majority of residents in small towns. I don’t even think it’s an issue with the majority the people in mine - but a conversation with a high school upperclassmen last night was pretty disheartening and really showed me how racism and ignorance are still prominent.

Yesterday I was at a friend’s bonfire and after hearing the word “nigger” thrown around several times and hearing my friends talk about the Nazi mini-flags they had bought at a gunshow, I wasn’t really phased-I knew the people engaged in the conversation and I didn’t really think they meant half of the stuff they were talking about, regardless of the fact that it did bother me. I have black family and close family-friends.

Then the conversation came about how some Aryan supremacy organization had written a statement indicating they would assassinate Obama should he win the Presidency. I mentioned that I had full intentions of voting for Obama and asked how they felt about that.
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Society finally has a way for hundreds of thousands of people of all ages to gather and protest for a cause, to speak their mind, and get the issues out in the open. . . And they waste it on fucking Facebook? Boohoo - my Facebook is a little altered…

If you’re going to forum together for a cause, why not this bogus war? The retarded president? Why not choose an issue like civil rights? Why is it that groups fighting for stem cell research and gay rights have less than 1% of the members of a group on Facebook trying to change the front page layout?

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