Mac nodded. “Has he always been there or is that new?”
“Right after he got elected, he got a visit from this organization. Must have been 2008? When Obama got elected? He didn’t like President Obama at all. Thought we’d be in a hostile takeover situation. That we’d have to fight to defend the country from our own government,” she rolled her eyes. “I was astounded. I hadn’t seen any kind of evidence of that kind of racist, right-wing rhetoric before we married. But we married shortly before 9/11 and a lot of cops changed then. Became more hardline, you know?”
Mac nodded. “I was 16 when 9/11 happened,” he said. “I enlisted two years later.”
Anne shook her head. “Bad times. But President Obama has been good for this country and these guys can’t see it because of his color. They’re all abou
