I am finding it hard to illustrate how pervasive rce prejudice was when I was a
young man,nd we didn't even know it!
My mother was head of the volunteer blood bank in Detroit before and during the war.
It was a big job and she had a big staff that worked well. One day she and her crew
were setting up a bank in an automobile factory. She was almost ready, and she needed
something moved. She looked at the waiting employees, and said " boy, will you give me a hand" There was a great commotion, and most started to leave. The point is,
she didn't even realize she had used a racial putdown. This was the way about 90% of the country felt! When I got older, and understood the horrers of the holocaust, I began to recognize and hate racial intolerance. It's still here of course, but far less than 70 years ago, which is a heartbeat to me.
I am a lifelong Republican, and will vote for McCain. However I believe if O'bama is elected we'll have a fine, intelligent president, but one lacking experience if only because of is age.
I hope I'm getting thru to illuustrating the profound change in one lifetime, that has covered about 3 1/2 generations.
This long dissertation should have preceeded the one below
RHD