South Carolinians Love Their Man Joe Wilson

Joe Wilson and South Carolinians might not know they're racist. That's because they grew up racist. It's as much a part of them as the hair on their head. Wilson doesn't see a black man as his equal because in South Carolina a black person is not equal to a white person, which is why it was easy for him to heckle the president.

Think about how you talk to a person that you consider your intellectual equal vs. how you might speak to someone you consider kind of dim, say a conversation with Paul Krugman vs. one with Glenn Beck. You'd be more apt to call Beck an idiot before you'd call Krugman an idiot.

For some people, instead of intelligence and character, it's the color of a person's skin that automatically triggers disrespect. A lot of people in the south actually believe that the size of a black person's brain is smaller.
But I think more people are realizing some serious racism has bubbled up to the surface and much of it is pouring out of the South and many of us are disgusted and disheartened. The question is, what do we do now that we know?

Why shouldn't South Carolinians love their man. He shouted "You Lie!" all for them, according to his wife Roxanne. Joe is a beautiful guy.