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In reply to the discussion: Black Farmer Calls Out Liberal Racism In Powerful Facebook Message [View all]NickB79
(19,318 posts)It's the small-town mindset you see in rural areas where most of your neighbors are white like you. You should have heard my mom and sister talking about the busload of "black city kids" that stopped at the Burger King one day on their way to a basketball conference. You'd think they had rushed into the place screaming about raping and murdering every white woman they saw by the way they described it.
Other times, they talk so much shit about the Somali's that are moving into the area for work, you'd almost expect them to put on white sheets and pointy hats any minute. Yet they still voted for Obama and Hillary.
There are racist liberals, and the numbers are not insignificant. As the farmer in the OP stated, it's not a "I'll murder your entire family", KKK-style racism, but a more subtle form that lives on stereotypes and only comes out in company that the speaker feels is safe to be themselves around. My family is perfectly nice to my non-white wife, but I have caught them from time to time giving that sideways glance and low whisper between each other from across the room, or stopping mid-sentence as they realized they were about to say something they would never say in front of a non-white person.