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The audacity of racism

Posted November 13th, 2008 by Dave Culver

To believe we have transcended racism based on a single election, no matter how integral it might have been, is absurd.

Mary Tuma, Daily Texan

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Ken Mitchell

“He sure as hell isn’t my president” were the words I woke up to at 3 a.m. last Thursday night. A drunken ad hominem attack was being waged outside my apartment building, and the enemy was our President-elect Barack Obama. The man’s anger quickly turned upon an Asian-American on a nearby balcony. “Go back to your country; this is ‘merica!” he said.

Some witnesses pleaded with the man to stop his barrage of hate. Others calmly warned him the police were on the way. I tried to fall back asleep, hoping this individual was not a member of the UT community.

But I have not been able to shake this scene from my mind.

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