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FOX News reports, so Blabo can believe:
Only a few years ago it would seem strange that the United States presidential election would pair off a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian.
Yet here it is: Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have endured oppression to carve out a place in the United States.
How much progress has America made against bigotry? By November, we should have some idea.
Mormons are 1.7 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Pew Research Center. African-Americans are 12.6 percent.
Even after three-plus years of a black president, racial bias remains "super-loaded and super-coded."
It's coded into political 'otherness' — "he's a socialist, he's dangerous, maybe a Muslim".
I think down underneath there's a lot of race bias, it's just that they've figured out ways to channel that into seemingly race-neutral codes.
Then there's bald racism.
This April, bar owner Patrick Lanzo in Paulding County, Ga., posted a roadside sign outside his establishment that used the n-word to convey his disdain for the president. "I don't feel bad about (the sign) whatsoever," Lanzo told Fox 5 News in Atlanta.
Obviously, Obama's victory in 2008 did not put racial issues to rest.
Poor Blabo.