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To: Lane3 who wrote (50151)	6/13/2004 6:46:47 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793974

I did not watch the services in California. A friend called my attention to this passage from Ron Reagan's eulogy. <<Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. True, after he was shot and nearly killed early in his presidency, he came to believe that God had spared him in order that he might do good. But he accepted that as a responsibility, not a mandate. And there is a profound difference. >> Wonder what he meant by that...

To: Lane3 who wrote (50151)	6/13/2004 7:19:25 AM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793974

Thanks, Karen. I grew up in the deep South during the dark days of segregation. My mother was from Michigan. My father was from South Carolina. The home of my infancy, childhood and youth was just below the Black Belt in Southern Alabama. I grew up in the midst of overarching and overweening prejudice. Not only did I witness prejudice against the blacks but also against the po' white trash who had nothing more to depend on other than the color of the skin to distinguish them from personal and individual and social and cultural extinction. The worst forms of prejudice appeared in the way that the po' white trash treated the blacks. Those whites a step above the trash had a slightly more enlightened outlook. Fortunately for me, my Northern mother whose education and experience, not to mention her sincere Christian faith, ameliorated somewhat the harshness of the deep South built-in bias against the blacks as blacks and the simmering economics-based fear and hatred of the po' white trash. My father had enough good breeding to know that one does not advance in life at the expense of others whether they be white or black. And so, thanks to the conditions in my growing up produced by both my mother and my father working together, I managed to escape the hate trap and the prejudice trap that kept my region of the country in thrall for more than a hundred years after the Civil War and, unfortunately, continues to exert an influence in certain parts of the South (and North) to this day. So, Karen, you can truly know that you have a soul brother in me whose experiences in life, while not mirroring your own, still reflect many of those same influences that guide you today. I stand with you against all forms of prejudice. Not only is prejudice unhealthy for society. Prejudice also is a poison that makes it almost impossible for an individual ordered by it to make any progress at all toward personal salvation. I hope you understand now what I meant when I said in an earlier post that I need more information. Hopefully, you have the same need. You gave me more information. I have similarly sought to give you more information. Now we can understand and appreciate each other better, I think and I hope. And as I said in a prior post that caused you to justifiably feel "cheated", may God bless you (and me) in our continuing walk.