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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (1661)	3/29/2004 5:15:30 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Like you, I was but a small child at the time. My parents brought me up with a desire to be a Christian. We attended a Baptist church 2 or 3 times a week. I took on the values taught there, yet there were folks there & within my family who were racially intolerant (not my parents though). I watched the civil rights movement unfold with serious bewilderment. I simply could not understand why folks could have so much hatred for people with different skin color. As for liberals & conservatives, I still believe that there were folks on both sides who distinguished themselves & those who disgraced themselves. IMO, neither side can seriously lay claim to leading the fight for civil rights, although the record of votes on civil rights legislation does seem to favor conservatives. I still believe that there was/is plenty of blame to go around on both sides. I think that affirmative action as it was/is implemented is now another liberal boondoggle. Instead of solving a serious problem, they have created more of them. Like welfare, it is more about politics than resolving a serious issue.