My ten year old: "Ever since Obama was elected, the Republicans have been more racist than usual."

[powergirl]

My son is watching the Republican debates with me and he just made this spontaneous observation. Truth from the mouth of babes.

[DevonRex]

1. Smart kid. More homophobic, too. Nt

[barbtries]

18. more sexist as well nt

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, that's when they pulled their racism out from under the rug and

put it on display. Now, they wear it as a badge of honor along with homophobia and xenophobia

Smart son, very observant!!!

[Odin2005]

3. I though racism wasn't a problem anymore until the 2008 Election brought out the racists.

That was very disillusioning.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. It was in the 2008 Democratic primaries, too, and as a black woman, I was very upset

and disappointed about it. Traveling around the country and working on the ground, myself as well as white, black, Hispanic, etc. co-workers witnessed it firsthand from Democrats!

[Odin2005]

14. I remember a co-worker who claimed to be a Hilary supporter...

...ranting about how Obama was "going to give everything over The Blacks".

[baldguy]

4. No they haven't; it just shows more.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Why would you edit the post??

[powergirl]

6. Forgot the emoticon

so I added it! I will explain that in the edit now. Sorry!

[Angry Dragon]

10. I should explain

When I opened your post all I saw was 'My ten year old'
and no quote from him/her and then I went to the original
and saw what they said and I was surprised that the quote was gone
that is what prompted the question about the edit

[dionysus]

8. look at the OP, you edited half the title out...

[powergirl]

9. Sorry - the Republican debate has got me all in a dither

Hard to type while listening to freaks and hate speech. Thanks for letting me know!

[dionysus]

11. it was a great observation.. i wanted everyone to see it.

[cgnick]

12. It's their way of appealing to their base.

[Quantess]

15. Sounds like your son learned that somewhere!

From you, for example.

[powergirl]

20. I do what I can!

I have a 16 year old, 12 year old, and 10 year old. My husband (from Detroit) and I (a Texan) try to live by example and our kids are all thoughtful progressives even though we live in TEXAS!

[1stlady]

16. Yes, even from so called democrats

Forget about rethuglicans, we know what time it is with them. They wear racism as a badge of honor. I was surprised to see so much racism from democrats, specifically Hillary supporters. Remember the pumas, they were nothing but racist. It was interesting how Hillary kept quite about all the racism coming from her supporters. At times she seemed to promote racism, remember her saying the white working class will not vote for Obama that why I need to be the nominee. That was sad and shocking coming from so called dems.

[Brigid]

17. You have a very smart ten-year-old.

He's been paying attention.

[joeybee12]

19. He's right...his election brought it out in them! knr

[Muskypundit]

21. Your kid was following politics avidly at the age of 5?

That's just unhealthy.