Okay, he was very much against gay marriage and was very hard on gays, but here’s why he did not seem racist to me:
“Only since the late 20th century have the great majority of black Americans been able to demonstrate their full intellectual and creative powers. The result has been the realization of Booker T. Washington’s prediction that blacks would achieve social success as whites witnessed black achievement.”
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“The importation of African slaves was outlawed in 1808. In the 196 years since then, which is less than three human lifetimes (72 years each) laid end to end, the social stock of American blacks has rocketed upward. Increased education and expanding opportunities have allowed blacks to demonstrate their intellectual, artistic and moral worth. The entire nation has been witness to this historic social wonder which even now continues its forward progress.”
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“In conclusion, to equate the moral status of blacks with that of homosexuals is preposterous. The oppression of blacks began with a misapprehension of their true nature and was later sustained by the self-serving interests of slave owners. The primitive circumstances of slavery and Jim Crow delayed black development. Today, finally, we see the flowering of black potential. The convergence of the races, as both races became better educated and socially sophisticated, was to be expected. There is no moral disparity between the races.”
Above snippets from here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090203131337/http://weirdrepublic.com/episode49.htm
I’d never heard of him before which sparked my curiosity.
He may or may not be racist, I have no idea. ‘Racist’ is the great all purpose word that can mean anything it’s accuser wants it too.
It was very effective here at this site during Bush Jr when freepers who spoke out against illegal immigration were zotted en masse. The Bush loyalists wielded a lot of power. Funny how times change.