Racism alarms Obama's backers

Nina 05-14-2008

Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama.

Here's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into "a horrible response," as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated.

"The first person I encountered was like, 'I'll never vote for a black person,' " recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. "People just weren't receptive."

hugo281

lol well even so like I mention earlier, if McCain gets elected it will be like as if Bush never left the White House, and yeah the economy would just fall apart even more

Hsoolien

It might actually get worse, McCain is smarter then Bush, meaning he'd be able to more effectively do what Bush has...

hugo281

Eeeh well maybe but I doubt it, we'll just see what happens come November