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Racist Rally Videos: Who Do They Really Help? You Might Be Surprised

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The answer to the question lies in the presence of the camera crews. They are there, chanting loudly, in order to frustrate certain elements of that crowd and then get them on camera, responding in the only way they know how; racist, bigoted rants.

That is why the Obama supporters and their cameras are there and that is what they are doing.

Now the real question is "why?".

Videos of ranting uneducated people are not going to win the election for Obama. Let's make that clear right now.

No one is going to change their minds about voting republican because they see some Youtube highlight reel of KKK members acting like idiots. They already know racists and they already know idiots. So the "hold a mirror to society" theory doesn't really cut it.

And if you think that black America needs a bunch of middle-class white activists to show them what racism looks like, you have been living under a rock for quite sometime and you need to get out somewhere that doesn't take American Express occasionally to get a different perspective. I would suggest the 9th Ward for starters. And then just go where the spirit moves you.

So here we are again with the same question. Why keep going to these rallies, baiting the natives into racist rants if the purpose isn't really to help Obama win?

Well, you aren't going to like the potential answers, I'll tell you that.

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