Comments on: A look at the American heartland, from a West Virginian who can’t explain it http://www.jinamoore.com/2008/10/01/a-look-at-the-american-heartland-from-a-west-virginian-who-cant-explain-it/ Reporter & Producer Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:31:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mojo shivers http://www.jinamoore.com/2008/10/01/a-look-at-the-american-heartland-from-a-west-virginian-who-cant-explain-it/#comment-424 mojo shivers Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:05:14 +0000 http://jinamoore.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-424 I think it's an impossible goal to have every area be as accepting and equitable as the majority of the country. I guess that's why any goal, philosophy, school of thought at most can achieve a majority and not a totality. I think it's an impossible goal to have every area be as accepting and equitable as the majority of the country. I guess that's why any goal, philosophy, school of thought at most can achieve a majority and not a totality.

]]> By: Diana http://www.jinamoore.com/2008/10/01/a-look-at-the-american-heartland-from-a-west-virginian-who-cant-explain-it/#comment-423 Diana Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:49:11 +0000 http://jinamoore.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-423 So what I don't get , and never will, is that for people who have race as an issue, being half (white, latino, asian, american Indian) -you fill in the blank- just does not count. So the conclusion I draw is that we are not just talking racist, but bigotry and malicious hatred of the worst kind. Scary, but a minority view, that will not prevail. That being said , I feel we have a majority of voters who could care only that their candidate has skin, and not one whit about its color. We care about ability and character and statesmanship, and the future of everyone in this country. Slowly, the dreams of so many will come inevitably true. After all a very large black man who sings OPERA! last night won America's Got Talent TV contest with a popular vote . If we have Opera in Vegas, why not Obama in the White house? So what I don't get , and never will, is that for people who have race as an issue, being half (white, latino, asian, american Indian) -you fill in the blank- just does not count. So the conclusion I draw is that we are not just talking racist, but bigotry and malicious hatred of the worst kind. Scary, but a minority view, that will not prevail.

That being said , I feel we have a majority of voters who could care only that their candidate has skin, and not one whit about its color. We care about ability and character and statesmanship, and the future of everyone in this country. Slowly, the dreams of so many will come inevitably true. After all a very large black man who sings OPERA! last night won America's Got Talent TV contest with a popular vote . If we have Opera in Vegas, why not Obama in the White house?

]]> By: quin browne http://www.jinamoore.com/2008/10/01/a-look-at-the-american-heartland-from-a-west-virginian-who-cant-explain-it/#comment-422 quin browne Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:50:44 +0000 http://jinamoore.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-422 i had this same discussion with my mother last night. i was born and raised in new orleans... my mom is from mississippi, and has retired back to her hometown. she is all about mccain and palin, with no reason other than, "well, they aren't obama." now, she has no reason to not like obama, either.. none that she'll say out loud to me. *sigh* i had this same discussion with my mother last night. i was born and raised in new orleans... my mom is from mississippi, and has retired back to her hometown.

she is all about mccain and palin, with no reason other than, "well, they aren't obama." now, she has no reason to not like obama, either..

none that she'll say out loud to me.

*sigh*

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