Reply #51: In college, you're exposed to people of different ethnicities. [View All]

[backscatter712]

I'm thinking that's an experience that a high-school educated coal miner or factory worker doesn't have.

When I went to college, I met people from around the world, of every race, every ethnicity. I met people who were openly gay, I met people with disabilities, I met people who spoke English as a second language, and had who knows how many first languages. You study with them, hang with them, drink with them, argue with them, discuss philosophy and politics with them.

And when you've had that experience, you no longer have the fear you might once have had of people who are different.

I guess that makes it hard to empathize with the sterotypical LIV who didn't have those experiences, and reacts to Obama by saying "I ain't votin' for that n****r!" :banghead: