Let's see if you can respond to the following questions?
1) Would you favour the reinstitution of state enforced racial segregation in only Southern states?
2) Do you agree with the anti-Jewish comments you reprinted such as "The Israelites especially should be kept out."?
3) Are you glad President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated (shot in the back) by a southerner?
4) In your opinion, do you consider the KKK & neo-nazis 'conservative' or 'hate groups'.
5) Should America support the state of Israel.
6) If an elected official has a proven conservative voting record would you still vote for them if they were an African American seeking higher office?
7) Which is the greatest threat confronting America today?
You resemble that remark.
[M. Espinola] In relation to skirting the issues via reprints from views you obviously share, how about being a little honest for a change and place your cards on the table.
I did not skirt anything. You said or implied that segregation and racism were strictly Southern matters. I documented them as being American national matters. Racism North and South was the norm, not the exception. Does the Anti-Defamation League ever consider things that happen outside the South?
[M. Espinola] Let's see if you can respond to the following questions?
Let us see.
[M. Espinola] 1) Would you favour the reinstitution of state enforced racial segregation in only Southern states?
No. I would favor equality of treatment in all the states, Southern and Northern.
[M. Espinola] 2) Do you agree with the anti-Jewish comments you reprinted such as "The Israelites especially should be kept out."?
The official orders of General Grant exist in the Official Records. They were wrong. Such orders are a stain on the man who issued them and those who tolerated it. But I point out that Union generals were involved in such things while a Jew was a cabinet-level official in the Confederacy (Judah Benjamin).
[M. Espinola] 3) Are you glad President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated (shot in the back) by a southerner?
Perhaps you should ask your questions of a Southerner. I'm a native New Yorker.
To the best of my knowledge, Booth was from Maryland which was a border state and a Union state, so your question appears to proceed from a false assumption.
I'm not glad Lincoln or anyone else was shot a century and a half ago. I did not even have ancestors here that far back.
[M. Espinola] 4) In your opinion, do you consider the KKK & neo-nazis 'conservative' or 'hate groups'.
The KKK and neo-nazis are hate groups.
Prejudice is a learned behavior. They were not born that way. And prejudice and discrimination exist in the North. It is not a regional affliction.
It is easy to see how Whites and Blacks can be readily distinguished, one from the other. The same is less easy to discern between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Of course, the issue there is not really religion, and Catholics and Protestants are not born hating each other. But Whites can learn to hate other Whites just as they can learn to hate Blacks or other races or ethnic groups.
[M. Espinola] 5) Should America support the state of Israel.
This question is somewhat vague. Without including every specific which could be extrapolated from your vague question, the general answer is "yes."
[M. Espinola] 6) If an elected official has a proven conservative voting record would you still vote for them if they were an African American seeking higher office?
Yes, up to and including President. I would not mind Justice Thomas as Chief Justice, but my preference would be Justice Scalia.
[M. Espinola] 7) Which is the greatest threat confronting America today?
I do not know. I cannot rank one as the greatest.
A terrorist dirty bomb or nuclear bomb gets the most press.
I think a terrorist biological attack with something like smallpox poses a larger potential threat.
With enough uncontrolled government spending we may yet crash the economy.
My turn.
1) Consider hypothetically that secession was lawful in 1861 pursuant to Amendment 10 and reserved powers. Based on that hypothetical, would secession be lawful for the purpose of freeing all the slaves? Would secession be lawful to keep the slaves enslaved? If the legal right to secede existed, would such right exist regardless of why the state wanted to secede, whether for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all?
2) If an elected official has a proven conservative voting record would you still vote for them if they were an Arab American seeking higher office?
3) Did Abraham Lincoln violate the Constitution on numerous occasions?
4) Do you agree with the Supreme Court opinion which said, "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority.'' Ex parte Milligan, 4 Wall. (71 U.S.) 2, 120-121 (1866).
He has to wait to see how the courts rule on them.