And I thought the political hate was bad at mylot....

It's a shame but I agree that racism is still a problem in this country. It also seems that racists are still as ugly and stupid as they ever were but, unlike back in the 60's, there are more people willing to speak out against it...both black and white.

Hi Zeph, I just read this same article on comcast and being from GA you know that racism is still alive. I will say that living in metro Atlanta its not as forward, but you still know that its around. Being in a inter-racial relationship has warranted its share of looks, stares and verbal comments. I still find it hard to believe thats its possible to lump a whole group of people and literally HATE them. Its beyond anything that I can imagine. I think that racism is a learned and taught way of life. And the only thing that I know is that I have to teach my child different, as I was taught. Which is that if you are to dislike a person, it should be because of something that they did to you personally and not because of something they can't change or have no control over.

I read an article yesterday that predicted that the racial hate of the 60's were going to come back because of this. It is sad that people are so bigoted. I may not perticular like a person but I would never be mad at someone else for liking them.

Yes, it still happens. I haven't really experienced myself although I HAVE had people ask me where I'm from - which is obnoxious. I notice a lot of people complain about racial hate FROM white people, but here where I live, kids including mine have been made fun of for BEING white. It doesn't make sense either way. It is chilling to realize that something you never thought of before is happening and happening often. Honestly too, some of those people need to realize that not everybody who is anti-Obama feels that way due to any race issue. Some people just did not agree with his platform and policies and view of the future of America, that's all. It's a moot point anyway, he got elected.

I grew up in one of the Northern cities that had widespread race riots in the 60s. We lived in one of the more "troubled" areas - a neighborhood that was in the process of white flight - and we were among the last remaining white families. I still remember my complete bewilderment when the kids who'd been my friends just last week were chasing me down the street with rocks. I still remember the bewilderment when adults that I loved - white adults this time - picked up rocks to throw them at school buses. It made no sense to me then and it still makes no sense to me. Forty years later, the difference is that there are millions of people like me who simply don't understand it and millions of our children who were raised in a society that sees value in diversity. There are also, unfortunately, racists of all colors and ethnicity. I've had to comfort both of my daughters when they were shut out of social groups or treated differently by friends because they are not Latina. To me, the saddest part of it all is that the focus on differences manages to divide us from each other and keeps us all from working together to make a better world for everyone.

Nope, it's not just on MyLot, I had to explain to my own father (who is half Lebanese and a dire Republican) why Obama was actually not an Arab and why just because his father was Muslim it didn't change the fact that he is actually a Christian. And some African-American girl put out a video all over the internet with her and her young daughter saying "f--- Obama" and stammering on about how he's not the first Black president.

I live in a college town surrounded by a lot of other college towns. These little towns have been accepting students and professors of every race from all over the world for over half a century now and the people here really don't have race issues. After reading some of the responses on here, I'm pretty happy to have landed here. Not that I'm immuned to the fact that racism exists. I've seen a surprisingly blatant amount of it on the web (not Mylot so much although I do wonder about some of the responses I've seen.) It's sad to think that we've gotten so far past something truly evil and then to have it staring us in the face. I think it all has its roots in the old "divide and conquer". Where you had poor blacks and poor whites living together, the governing class generally told the whites they were better and kept control. Some people sat back, accepted their lot and bought into that falacy. Now, they see a black man from the Ivy League is president and they have to deal with the fact that they are nowhere as good as. They just can't deal with it. I'd feel sorry for them if they were not so damn ignorant and dumb.

Some people are very passionate about their political beliefs, so much that they can't disern from doing things to show their distaste or appreciation. Racism will never die, it doesn't matter who is the white house, people hate W for the color of his skin too.

So depressing that racism still exists - I really don't see how the colour of somebodies skin can be an issue and people who do have a problem with it should just grow up!

Its so sad when thnigs like this happen. I'm sure he will do really good. Its a shame a lot of awful fuss is made over politics and reglion

Even decades from now we will always be discussing race and debating whether or not is actually present in society. The fact is yes it is...and it is not just among caucasins and african americans. It is also present among both of those mentioned ethnicities and Mexicans, Indians, etc. The problem is when people refuse to empathize with others in general. Luckily i was raised in a household with parents who went through the bussing era and witnessed the violence as neighborhoods integrated and still did not pass their fear of racial integration on my brothers and I. In fact when I was in school and in our history class the subjects came up I asked my parents questions and through our discussions we both learned a little more about things. Also, the tension will always be there because no matter what the generations did or went through the present day people can never be able to erase it, ease it nor alleviate it. I watched a show on PBS on African American history and the historian tried to trace back the lineage of several famous black americans. Some they were able to go back as far as Africa and some they could only go back as far as the registers of slave owners. And I found it most disgusting and sad that this was the case. But I am glad I watched the show. Because I think it was Morgan Freeman...who summed it up as saying something along the lines of no matter how it was we got here as a society, even through the hurt, we need to come together and procede into the future (like I said it was not a direct quote, but his words were similar to this) And on Maya Angelou (who I have to say changed my life through the power of her words and evidence of her life) when she was asked if she knew her great, great, great + grandfather was a white man and how she felt about it, she said it was no secret in her family and (similar to what Freeman said) this is a part of who she is. Now if this is the case that racial tension can lead to more violence for America...this is a sad day and times. Our ancestors (black and white) who fought for everyone to be seen as equal will have fought in vain. There will always be (what my father refers to as) Klax Kluck Klingmen and there will always be black supremists. But my answer to these groups are to lock them in a room and let them sort out the best way to use violence as an answer. My parents taught me better and I feel sorry for anyone who believes that one race is stronger than another.

I took a look at the KKK website just to see how freaked out they were... funny thing is, they are actually pretty happy about it, they think this is the wake up call that the white people really need. They're obviously expecting membership to go up and to get more funding... oi vey

i just dont get why his skin color is a factor in whether he will do a good job, all we can do is wait and see

The only way we will completely get rid of racism is when we completely breed the races out of our societies. I will say that as a white person who lives in a primarily black area, I have endured a lot ofA slurs from the black commuity, especially after our state came down on the McCain side. Apparently it boggled peoples minds that anyone could have voted against Obama, and it must be "all those white (fill in your slur here) people" . I have heared a lot of this on the public transportatin systems, not all of it directed at me personally, but often intentionally within hearing distance/Volume. So if we must still discuss race, which I think we shouldn't even mess with anymore. Just remember that it goes all ways and if you voted for Obama because he is black, you are just as racist as if you didn't vote for him because he is black. And in either case you shot yourself in the foot because he is just as much white as he is black as he was raised by his white mother. I know there are people out there who are racist, but we do need to be a little careful of how we throw that term around. A lot of people in recent years have been painted as raceist becuse they beleive in principals that someone else feels will adversly affect one group. e.g. Someone who feel all immigrants should come in through legal means and those who break the law and come here illegally should be deported, is often painted as anti-hispanic. People who five years ago suggested that Fanny and Freddy stop insisting on banks making risky loans to people who where unlikely to be able to repay them were painted as racist because people felt that would unfairly target minoritys. (when the actual target was people who wouldn't be able to pay the loan back) People who critisized Jeremia Wright for suggesting that the US government spread the AIDS virus were called racist becaus people said they were attacking the black church. The list goes on here, but my point is that anytime someone has a policy differance and someone can find a way to make it look racist, they do. etc.etc.etc.

Well when you consider that many blacks or near blacks voted for Obama because he was black, then you can understand the hate. Now if maybe some of the black people voted for McCain, maybe like 20 percent or 30 percent (I do not know how many did, I suspect it was maybe less then 1 percent) then I would say that this is just sour grapes. But when they all go e nmasse and vote for him (and for some older ones it was the first time) because he is part black, that is wrong. I blame the Media who said he was so wonderful and never made a mistake and also all those TV dramas were the head person and arbitator of morality had to be black. It is wrong to hate someone and burn crosses, and call them the n word. And it is just as wrong for a minister of a church to curse white people, to say g- damn America, and think that he is a holy man of God. Before the election, I thought that it is in a man;s heart that was his character and I hated it when someone said all blacks are stupid, all Germans are bossy, all Italians love to sing, all Native Americans love nature, etc. I did not like stereotypes and I hoped that this election would prove me right. Sadly it did not.

Upon initialy reading the thread title and the first sentence in the thread list, I thought this was a thread on political hatred. After reading the rest of the OP and the rest of the thread, I find it a discussion on racism. So I have to ask, what was the original intent of the topic, racism? Or political hatred? In order to repond properly, I can only do one or the other. Without that, I am only left with the option of trying to draw the distinction myself and try and write a reponse that does this and adresses some deep concerns of mine I think many people are already aware of. The article mentions a lot of racial incidents, but it also mentions some that don't say anything about race, simply about anti-Obama incidents. I think the generalization of anti Obama sentiments and incidents is misleading and unfair. It makes the conclusion that to be anti-Obama is to be racist. I can point you to people who are anti Obama by the score who are black, white, Indian, hispanic, asian, etc. One of the strongest calls for a revolt and revolution I saw imediately following the election was written by a black man. I posted it in here and the people in hre imediatly jumped on it as a racist statement, though mo mention of race was made in the call. I left out the race of the person who wrote it becaue I didn't feel it was relevent, I just assumed people would read it and realize the political devide it represented and frustration with the current state of the system. Much to my chagrin however, people made the auto-assumption it was about race, when it was about constitutional ideology in itself. It is sad and damaging that the media is hyper focused on the racce issue. It leads people away from the real issues and ties in patriot groups like mine with racist groups and bundles us as "right wing nuts" or "white right wing racist extremists" when in indisputable fact, the racist element is marginal when compaired to the larger scope of the patriot movement. Race only apears to be the major issue because that is all you see reported on, and people assume because they saw it on TV and in the paper it must be widespread, when in fact it's only incdental. There are thousands of car crashes every day, compaired to relatively sparse plane crashes, yet if you went entirely by the media, you would believe plane crashes to be far more common than car crashes as you don't hear about them as much. What you don't hear about is growing oposition to an ever growing intrusive fedeal government and the slow disolving of the republic. There are a number of states that have passed 10th amendment adherence resolutions, effectively nuetralizing the federal government's authority over them and reasserting their soverignty under their 10th amendment rights and asserting their rights to refuse executive directives. But I'll bet most of you aren't even aware this revolution is happening are you? But I'll bet you can cite the race incidents that happen ver batum. I am absolutely terrified over the fact that race is being so promoted in the media with out the patriot movement being given equal time. It leads the public, with out proper information, to believe that we are all about race, that the brewing revolution among the states and people ready to fight back, are doing so because of racial motives. It essentialy assures that groups like mine and people like me will be branded as hate mongerers, when in fact, our movement trancends race, gender, ethnicicty and age entirely. It marginalizes and neutralizes a cause that our nation's survival now depends on.

I cant relate much on this topic because it usually happen in the US. But I just love to read discussions like this because its good to know about whats happening all over the world. and of course Ive read a lot about racism. And about obama, I didnt know that a lot hates him. I thought that people love him so much thats why he won.

You know it constantly amazes me just how ignorant many people in this country are when it comes to accepting the differences of people. They want people to look, act, feel, and think just like them. They put down and act cruelty against people of different colors and their differences. I agree with the responder who said, "thank God we are not all the same." I have no animosity towards Obama because of the color of his skin. I have problems toward all politicians because it seems they are good at making promises they are unable to keep. Then, when they make mistakes, they like to dance around them with nonsense explanations. I have limited expectations of our leaders. I am just glad it is not me in their seats. The pressure they are under and endure is much more then I would want on my shoulders. Racism is problem I do not see resolved any time soon. Racism will be around as long as people live here of different races because the ignorant people. It sad that we can evolve and overcome many different things, but this one remains.