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Having grown up in the South, I am well aware of the bigotry and hatred that someone can have for another, when they believe that they are a follower of the correct faith, from the correct race, and that they somehow are the only ones who love America. And all others from different churches, or different races, hate America and are frankly not even really true Americans anyway.

If you take the time to read any of the comments on right wing websites, and on the websites of Southern mainstream newspapers, you will see a sea of hatred and anger. People are “concerned” about Senator Obama’s background. They don’t believe him when he says he is a Christian. To them, he is obviously lying.

From this I have learned that no matter what the truth is, and no matter what you say to correct a misconception about the truth, these angry Americans will simply choose to not believe the truth. And instead they will believe what they want. And what they want to believe is the worst.

The people who still believe that Senator Obama is a Muslim (which is not a crime by the way), would have never voted for him anyway. They would have found something else instead. Look at John Kerry, a war hero. The angry Americans said he wasn’t a war hero, despite the evidence to the contrary.

So I am not going to worry about people who say that Senator Obama is a Muslim. Because, they are angry Americans who hate blacks, gays, compassion, acceptance, truth, hope, fairness, and justice. They embrace bigotry and hate, and they will be bitter until they die.

They will miss out on a lifetime of being proud of our country for correcting the wrongs of our past, and for accepting responsibility for what is wrong with America and then fixing it. They want to return to the “good ole days” of Jim Crow, gays in the closet, and a world where a mixed race child with a funny name and diverse background could never become President.