"First quarter of the twenty-first century. Makes you want to weep."
Too right. And yet these atavisms would probably vigorously assert they're a part of the greatest democracy in the world, and proud of it. Among the most backward of the US's population, there seems no awareness of the disconnect between their patriotic declarations and their racist beliefs and deeds.
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Date: 2008-06-23 03:34 pm (UTC)"First quarter of the twenty-first century. Makes you want to weep."
Too right. And yet these atavisms would probably vigorously assert they're a part of the greatest democracy in the world, and proud of it. Among the most backward of the US's population, there seems no awareness of the disconnect between their patriotic declarations and their racist beliefs and deeds.