Reply #14: civil rights cont. [View All]

I'm 56 and what I'm seeing today is vaguely familiar--vaguely familiar since I'm white. Our freedoms are being taken away, we are told to watch what we say (or we're traitors), Chimpy McAwol will decide who has rights and conversely who does not, etc., etc. He reminds me of the stereo-typical southern sheriff. Some people have lived their entire lives in areas of this country being treated this way and feeling powerless.

The majority of the people who were disenfranchised on Nov. 2 were Black (African Americans, et. al.)at least in Ohio. I don't think this is anything new in this country. What is new is that the net has been expanded and has affected many of us who are not accustomed to being treated this way--beginning in 2000 in Fla. What bothers me the very most about this election is the blatant racism that took place and the power the neocon's now have to get away with it. I may be wrong, but I can't shake the feeling that we are being taken over by a group that could accurately be labeled "white supremacists" among other things.