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How many PEOPLE? PEOPLE! NOT BLACKS! They, like you, are INDIVIDUAL  
PEOPLE.



On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:40 AM, EarthNSky wrote:

> I extrapolated from my own observation.
> My friends and neighbors work in not only my town, but in surrounding
> towns as far away as Chattanooga and the Atlanta suburbs.  DH told me
> that certain people he works with(he named them-Rocky among them) did
> not show up for work.  When he went to lunch, he noticed that there
> weren't many blacks in the restaurant-either working or eating.  I  
> took
> it upon myself to ask my friends/neighbors if they were seeing  
> anything
> similar.  They did.  My best friend's husband is a plant manager, and
> I'm not sure how many blacks he employs, but he said only one person
> came to work yesterday, and that many were apparently under the belief
> that Obama would save them.   Another neighbor went to town and said  
> the
> lines were long at the bank-people withdrawing money, and it was made
> worse because apparently some of the tellers were missing.
> If this involved hundreds if not thousands of blacks in my local area,
> then I extrapolated and upsized for the country.  Maybe I should not
> have done that, but I felt like if it is happening here, in this  
> podunk
> town and surrounding area, and I can see that people feel the same
> way(from the news and you tube)in other places, then it must be
> happening there, too. I haven't spoken with Rocky.  I did assume that
> that is the reason he was out.
>
> Bev
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> > Where did you get this information? I read lots of news on the
> > internet (major papers, odd sites, both left and right) and  didn't
> > see anything about it. Did blacks actually SAY that they stayed home
> > because Obama will save them, or did you assume that?
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
>
> --
> “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads  
> to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda
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