Sunday, September 9, 2012

This Is Shaping Up To Be the Most Racially Polarised US Election Ever | Common Dreams

This Is Shaping Up To Be the Most Racially Polarised US Election Ever | Common Dreams
"As Republicans were promoting themselves as a multiracial party from the platform in Tampa two weeks ago, an ugly incident on the convention floor suggested not everyone had got the memo. From the podium a range of speakers of Haitian, Mexican, Cuban and Indian descent spoke of how their parents had overcome huge barriers so they could succeed in the US. In the audience, a successful black woman who works for CNN was being pelted with peanuts by a convention-goer, who said: "This is how we feed the animals"."