Lee told the group about a recent conversation he had with a white IBEW member from the south.

He told me, "Up until now, being prejudiced has been free. You could dislike or even hate people for no other reason than the color of their skin and it wouldn't cost you anything financially--although it might cost you morally or spiritually." Then he went on to say, "But if middle-class working Americans take their prejudice into the voting booth on Nov. 4, it will cost them dearly for decades."