Posted on 11/06/2008 5:55:13 AM PST by RobinMasters
In this thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2126850/posts?page=13) some people shared their experiences about what they saw after the Election.
Carley said : "You could see shock and awe on the faces of most people yesterday. The commuter train in NJ was filled with silent people, black and white, wondering just what they hell they had done.
The trip was eerily silent when it’s usually filled with people chatting away."
or jnygrl : "My husband takes NJ Transit. He said his train was silent yesterday until it stopped at Newark."
Please, feel free to share what you've experienced around you. It would be useful for some FReepers or others.
I received an email from a friend that said; “all white people to report to the cotton fields tomorrow at 8am”. I’m hoping it’s a joke, otherwise I’m late for work.
Another young, black Obama supporter at work (Knowing I’m the arch-Conservative) told me that from now on I’ll have to ride in the back of the bus. I told her that on the rare occasion I ride a bus, usually the shuttle from Texas Stadium to the TPC course for the Byron Nelson golf Tournament, I would ride in the back, but it wasn’t a big deal because now buses have doors in the front, and the back.
Otherwise, it’s just socialism as usual.
Brilliant!
Go for it!
I think there is a sincere effort amongst many blacks to extend a conciliatory gesture to whites. Many truely feel..”equal” now and really want to get along.
Some may be probing (as many whites just went to work the next day and didn’t go shooting up neighborhoods and burning crosses)as to what whites may be feeling, so they know how to comport them-selves. We didn’t go dragging Ohio elections officials into court after-words or belly ache about “cheating”. The “losing side” in short did not react in any way that blacks expected they would act. This has confused many folks on the left, blacks and whites.
No race riots, no burning cities. Maybe blacks have a few things to learn about conservatives, black or white in general.
As for the blue eye incident, a good response would have been, “thank you and I like that dress you are wearing”. Even if something racial was implied, keeping the conversation on a higher plane often disarms hostility.
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