Barack Obama
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He has been Brushing off The Bigotry The Racism The Intolerance.

Then he squares his shoulders and carries on.
No President has suffered so much hate. No first family was has ever been so vilified.
This country needs to grow up and get grip on their lives. There is a Black Family in the White House. Deal with it.
BOG
blue neen
(12,465 posts)The hatred makes me so sad.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Not naming names.
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,438 posts)I knew hatred was unhealthy. I just never thought to replace it with love.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Brush off.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)doesn't mean we have changed in any way, shape or form. I like that he said that. He needed to say that
It's nurture. From one generation to the next. It's nature. We are inherently wired to prefer "sameness."
It won't go away until each and every one of us does something to make it go away.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Right on, she!
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,198 posts)sheshe2
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