Great campaign experience: Post-election chit-chat.

After polls closed for the Emanuel - Garcia election, I was hanging out in the local election office I had been volunteering out of, and I was talking with a few (black) people, some of whom I had gotten to know from previous volunteer shifts, and some new.

One (black) guy and one (black) woman were talking about how Facebook was taking down a lot of their stuff, since it was too political.

As the woman told it, the other day she put up a post that was taken down in 11 minutes:

It was a picture of Rahm Emanuel posing with a group of (black) children above the caption "What's wrong with this picture?", as a test if people were part of the "white supremacist regime".

The answer was something like, "A white man can pose with a group of black children and put it on a campaign brochure, but a black man posing with a group of white children would be accused of being a molester."

Everyone listening agreed it was true, and the guy and the woman ended up promising to Friend each other on Facebook.

The woman also said that she really respected Abraham Lincoln, esp. how he promised poor whites that he'd send the freed slaves back to Africa, but as soon as the War ended, he gave them the vote.