To: LindyBill who wrote (34710 ) 3/15/2004 7:50:19 PM From: Michelino Read Replies (2) | Respond to There were hundreds if not thousands of lynchings that took place during AR's lifetime. But, I said the "relatives" and if you think that by 1969, they had forgotten the crimes committed against them by killing their loved ones....so much for sympathy with the victim. If someone has used the same quote in the West Germany of the same era, would you still think of it as being cute? Mercedes ran some ads a few years back that took a nostalgic view of their history of invention from the twenties to today. I thought it was buffoonish and insensitive to wax poetic about the German industrial machine of the thirties and forties, how about you? To contend that "liberals" have damaged blacks more than KKK from a man who lived through times when 95% of the blacks were not allowed to vote in Mississippi (just five years before 1969!) is to be blinded by the right. I was on the train when terror's next door neighbor made "the blacks" go sit in their own car. When you claim that "liberals", many of whom are the very blacks (or their children) who so bravely stood up for suffrage and equal rights in their take on a "greatest generation", are the problem...this is the subtle method of pushing all responsibility for bigotry back onto the stereotype. Now THAT's well worn and should be retired. insensitive to paint the most privileged as being the most persecuted when there are real victims around with names, faces and stories. And I mean insensitive. "Racism" was your word, if I need to make it mine, I know how and when to use it. "one case where the left thinks government is the problem" I mean to "heal" you of your pigeonholing, not judge you of some sin.
