I was standing in the teller line at the bank the other day. In front me was an elderly African-American. I front of him was a man wearing a McCain-Palin tee shirt. President Obama appeared on the screen of the television the bank had set up to give people something to watch while they waited for an available teller. The man in the tee shirt turned to the African-American.
“I’ll bet you think he’s great,” he said in a patronizing tone.
“I think he’s a great janitor.”
“Why did you say that?” I asked.
“Well, he’s cleaning up the mess created by a bunch of dumb ass white people, isn’t he?”
There was no way I could argue with that.
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