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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (34064)	7/20/2010 7:32:45 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: [what problem do you have with the fast government reaction once the story broke: forcing the woman out of her government job?] "What problem? Are you kidding? The problem is that she should never have been fired, she helped the guy and is now good family friends..." So NOW you are saying... what? That there never really was any racism and that she shouldn't have lost her government job over it? (I guess I don't know exactly what you are tweaked about... not clear on exactly what FOX is tweaked about either.... Was it that the white farmer ran into a racist mindset 24 years ago? Or that the, now government worker, lost her government job once she talked about her old racist attitude publicly and someone posted a video of her remarks?) Story I heard was that --- in her speech --- she was trying to illustrate a point about racism, and about how racist thinking can be overcome, by using an example from her OWN LIFE from 24 years ago. That she initially had such racist thought in her mind ('why should I help a white person with a land problem when there are so many blacks with similar land problems who don't get any help'), but that when she began to get to know the farmer and his family she began to think that this was just an example of the type of problems that poor, honest people often run into with bankers and government and such... and that problems like that affected black and white all the same and she shouldn't think of it in racial terms... and then she went on to go way above the level of support that you might normally expect to receive from some bureaucrat... actually traveling with the farmer more then three times to the capital to personally push for action... and she and the family became very good friends over many years....