I was just reading this AskMetaFilter question, in which a non-American asks whether “hillbillies” really do still exist. In the course of the comments, someone points to this story of a trailer-dwelling woman in Georgia who spoke at a recent Obama event. It nearly made me cry. These are good, hard-working folks, and they’re doing it really tough right now. And I really wish that those of you forwarding racist jokes about Obama (yeah, I still receive them occasionally) would READ IT. Things are broken right now, and they need to be fixed.