Hopefully 'saner' people will more now ignore him. dude has his own issues with race, or he simply sees race discord as a way to further whatever it is his agenda is...
he surely seems not to know a thing about the poor rural south, black... and white.
I don't doubt that farmer talked down to Sherrod at first. it might be because she was black. but it was also because she is a woman. she was twofer in that case. I gather the missing part of the tape, when it was being changed, was when she talked about being offered tobacco. now that's a big deal. anyone to anyone. a white to black? very big. a man to a woman? the same.
mr bman should stay the fak out of things here, and across the country.
one person at a time to move past the scars of the past here... and Sherrod, a woman whose father was gunned down, sadly not uncommon enough here back then... to reach the point she did... and those old farmers, people who were young and in the midst of things as Jim Crow ended to reach the point they did that not only is she a friend for life, but at 82 to speak up on her behalf.
Bman is a dying breed. dying breeds often bray louding in their dying days.
I did an airport run today, so on the way home (after dropping off the old folks, for whom I keep the radio off), I was blasting the tunes. and thinking yet again on the music... pretty much all hiphop all the time. and a smattering of white women. except for coldplay and the occasional rob thomas, don't hardly hear a white boy. the times are a'changing.
one reason I think the far out there candidates here lost in primaries is the young people... white kids I met when I got here in '92 and were on a vanguard of a change are in their mid-30's now, and that's a lot of youngers behind them, going even further. we just have to keep it up. |
