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Obama was here for 8 years, lots has changed.

The only thing that's changed is that in-your-face racism is acceptable to many whites because "Trump says what's on his mind." For a lot of people, dog-whistle euphemisms like "urban" aren't needed anymore.

People have become coarser and rude.

Just because we got a black president doesn't mean things are better for non-whites.

IMHO, I do not think racism as a whole is on rise. As for "is acceptable" or not, I think that's a personal choice. Racism is never about internal thinking, it's about conduct.

Trump said many things, but I do not think it's fair to label them as racism speech or similar. He certainly did not "say what's on his mind"; otherwise the words would be 100* worse TBH.

America's problem is institutional racism, not conversational racism.

What happened Bubo is that Obama's go-to-move is race baiting. 'You are racist' button got hit so much: it no more has any meaning. Trump was not in WH for the past 8 years.

Here are some of his supporters: http://twitter.com/TrumpWorld00/status/767313253479448577 http://twitter.com/Don_Vito_08/status/772789053385240576 http://twitter.com/dt_ads/status/772242215271862272

http://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk http://twitter.com/sweetatertot2

And now you know. You can by self find out more about Clinton.

It really hasn't, which is the great missed opportunity.

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