This is the most unbelievable discussion I have ever seen on this board.
I've read most of it in both threads and am incredulous.
Keyes is suggesting that skin color should benefit one race in tax relief, and penalize every other tone of skin? On the faulty argument that people long dead were once held as slaves by people long dead?
This is not acceptable. It shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
I'm not saying it should cost him a vote, Illinois voters will decide whom is best for the state. It doesn't mean this idea shouldn't be slammed as hard as it would be if a Liberal had spoken it.
Let's give tax cuts to descendants of coolies, who were, for all intents and purposes, slaves in building the national railroads.
And surely we can summon up a big ole government wet kiss for the Native Americans, whose ancestors we murdered and herded onto reservations so that they're now reduced to running casinos!
Give me a friggin' break!
Who's got the fork?