This week's filter post for news writing class is going to filter the election and the reaction to the results on Facebook.
Last night, after President Obama won re-election, I saw mostly positive comments from both sides. Some just disagreed with me on Fox News' reaction to the results and other things like that, although the race was over anyway. But some decided to take it a step further. Some people talked about moving out of the country while some others actually made racist comments.
First, for those who would like to move out of the country, who's stopping you? If you want to fine but good luck finding a better place to live.
Now, where I take issue is how can someone make racist comments and actually publish them on Facebook? It boggles my mind how anyone would be so disgusting, so incompetent to do such a thing! I'm sick and tired of the racist comments toward President Obama. Would you like it if we called Mitt Romney "whitey?" Didn't think so!
The comment has since been deleted but it's still a problem that someone would initially think to make something like that public on Facebook. Yes, I said public. Just because you have your privacy set to just friends seeing your posts doesn't necessarily mean everyone else can't see it.
One more note: by the end of election night, I had lost two more Facebook friends because they obviously couldn't take the heat I was dishing out. Fine, if you want to take the petty way out then be my guest. But that won't stop me from publishing my thoughts nor will it hurt me personally as you intended to do.
Now that President Obama has been re-elected, we must all shut up and work together for the good of our country.
Pray for President Obama and all our leaders don't bash them. That just divides our country further.
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