tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19725412.post9042034408642775088..comments2009-06-28T21:00:23.992-05:00Crawford's Takehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01245128617020823714rcrwfd@gmail.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19725412.post-45123610412458261362009-06-28T21:00:23.992-05:002009-06-28T21:00:23.992-05:00Just discovered and love your blog...I&#39;ve been reading through your old posts and when I got to this one, I felt I had to comment. I live in Green Bay and while certainly some racism still exists all is not lost. My mother and I campaigned door to door for days and days during the weeks before the election and we were encouraged by the Obama support shown from white people of all ages...I kept commenting that it just goes to show you that you can&#39;t judge a book by it&#39;s cover because the same older gentleman who has an NRA sticker and blanket sized flag in his window is the same guy who wants to talk for 20 minutes about how Obama is the change we need etc and Obama won Brown County (we&#39;re the largest city in Brown County)on election night and Kagen won it too. I&#39;m not saying that there aren&#39;t remnants of racist attitudes, believe me, but to me it seems that in the 15 years I&#39;ve lived here, things have changed. People are shifting. My brother is racially mixed and when he visits, I never worry about him being pulled over..though, in Chicago where he lives, he&#39;s been pulled over many times without cause and once was dragged out of his car and thrown face down on the hood for no reason...he shouted that he was a Chicago Public School teacher not a criminal and suddenly the police got a little nervous and told him to get in the car and go. It scared me to think that another man who may not have had a &quot;respectable&quot; job to shout out about would have gotten worse and for no reason but racism. <br /><br />The racism that I see here is more the variety of blue collar white bitterness about illegal immigration and older people freely making comments about how they like to buy their produce from the Hmong vendors at farmer&#39;s market because &quot;All the Hmong&#39;s are good gardener&#39;s and sell cleaner produce&quot;...which isn&#39;t good, but is shifting and I have to disagree with the previous commenter that &quot;Bias/Prejudice/Racism/Classism/Elitism is as entrenched in Green Bay as it was in 1976&quot;. <br /><br />Gard had lost this area in two elections, I think his ads were race baiting, but more out of desperation to appeal to some die-hard racists who might need an extra push to get out and vote, rather than to the community in general. <br /><br />I&#39;ll be back to find out more about the chickens in Shorewood. :)laurahttp://littleorangekitchen.typepad.com/my_little_orange_kitchen/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19725412.post-75527954096239313682008-10-06T18:31:00.000-05:002008-10-06T18:31:00.000-05:00I know someone that had a cross burned on their front lawn when they spoke openly at a City of Green Bay (might really be called groin bag) Public School Board meeting - speaking for sex education in public schools. It happened in 1976. The rectum opps Reverend Harley (whatever I say goes) Keck led a group of "Pro-Life" screaming maniacs from his 'moral majority' christian church. He had his ilk scream whenever anyone rose to speak FOR sex ed. <BR/><BR/>Undercurrent of racism my fat liberal tushie - Packers are the only people that are 'colorless' because they are green and gold - they bring the greenbacks and gold cash to the city. (I personally feel the 'good old boy' society within the city owned franchise - keeps the city from ever changing.<BR/><BR/>Bias/Prejudice/Racism/Classism/Elitism is as entrenched in Green Bay as it was in 1976 - if we are to hold that horrid standard for the rest of the state - - - all is lost!georgianoreply@blogger.com