Do a few apples really spoil the bunch?

You know what they say, 1 bad apple spoils the bunch... Well can we really translate that to anything? Well I just finished watching a conversation between Tavis Smiley and Evan Bayh, Senator from Indiana who was considered by Obama as a possible running mate. A couple of things that the Sen. spoke about kind of got me thinking. Well i guess enough to make me hop on the site and write on it... lol. Well we all know that there is an issue of race when it comes to the Presidental race. So Tavis asked the Sen. how much of an impact did he think the issue of race would have in Indiana, which is known to be a Red state ( or Republican). Currently, Obama is actually leading in the polls in Indiana and has a chance of acutally winning that state, which is about a 21% increase from the last presidental election.

Well the Senator explained that while it would be naive to say that race isn't an issue, it shouldn't be much of an impact. There's a small group of ppl, in his opinion that still "think like that".... and furthermore those ppl wouldn't vote for a Democrat anyhow. I kinda felt where he was coming from on that, I mean if you're racist you're racist. You gonna hate who you hate and anyone who may seem like they helping who you hate. But they're still the "bad apples" and with history being the way it is, it's hard to overcome that stigma as a race. it's so easy to blame a difference of opinion, or personality, or even dislike of someone on being racist. I mean ppl of the same race have these differences.

It's just too hard to tell, and especially coming from a race that has been oppressed in the past, the extreme excuse is going to be taken... it's just a natural defensive mechanism... If u have a group of 5 ppl, and the group always picked on this one person i'll name Joe. Naturally Joe isn't gonna like that group too much... However, 4 members of that group realize the error of there ways and have genuinely changed and would never pick on Joe the way they did before. I bet if the 4 were together and happen to run into Joe... even knowing that information... Joe isn't gonna really trust them fully. Trust issues... see that trust pops up in everything that is associated with the word "problem"....

We've come along way, but there are just too many bad apples, maybe the analogy is transferable...
But hey, that's just me... Speak on it,

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