Originally Posted by Xavier

I remember it well. Coming from a small college town in Pennsylvania where Catholics were a minority, it was never an issue until that election. Walking with my life-long friends to a Science Fair at the college, my friends started spieling out the hatred that they heard from their parents at home. As a teenager it really shocked me and brought a realization how narrow minded and hateful people can be to make whatever they support look better by making someone or something look worse. It happens here in this forum a lot.

In this same small town we had no blacks or any people of color. When I went into the Navy at 17 years old, I soon found out what real hatred and bigotry was. It remains today in many ways. It sometimes is masked a little better. I'm just saying.....

Xavier