SomeGuy
668, Neighbor of the Beast
Your racist US has been gone for quite some time now...and you need to let it be GONE!
(rant off)
I live in one of the reddest of the red states and I think your observation is WAY off. Over the past few months I have heard some of THE most racist comments, mostly directed at Obama, that I have heard in my entire 50 years of life. I grew up in Memphis TN in the early 60's and remember the day MLK was killed and what that city was like before and after, I knew people who were directly involved in the Civil Rights movement so I do have somewhat of a base of reference to compare to.
People that I once considered friends have uttered some of the most vile and racist things I've heard in recent memory and have NEVER heard in connection to ANY previous presidential election. And I'm not talking about 1 or 2 opinionated people, I'm talking in the dozens.
Maybe where you live its all sunshine and rainbows, but racism is alive and well in the US. I suppose people can choose to ignore it, or call it out for what it is.