There’s Always A But

By Kleinheider Posted on October 7, 2008 at 11:23 am

The BBC encounters a smidge of racism while here in our fair city covering the debate:

I went to a Bluegrass music festival here in Nashville and got talking to some of the musicians. One of them said that there were people who, as he put, it “didn’t want a black butt on the toilet in the White House.”

Forgive me again for repeating it, but I need to convey the brutality.

This man wasn’t voicing his own opinions, he said, just those out there. But I wondered.

Out and out racism we know about. But there’s also an unconscious racism.

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