[Republic_of_Secession.]

Even as a seven-year-old kid I felt insulted and humiliated by the insinuation that we were not good enough to drink from the same water fountains as Whites, or ride in the front of the bus.

This is not meant as a defense of segregation, but the point of segregation was not about sending a message or "insinuating" that non White people were not "good enough" to use the same facilities as White people. Segregation was simply the result of a misguided political belief system concerning the then purported "incompatibility" of the races to smoothly interact under a common civil umbrella which btw was initially imposed onto the South from the North by way of the new Northern based regimes running the defeated Confederate States during Reconstruction.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

What I have never been able to understand is: if one feels that they are being slighted or discriminated by a given civil collectivity / society or regime, instead of using or depending on the same apparatus of the State which is oppressing one, why not simply create one's own civil collectivity / society or representatives. In other words: do not forget the historically relevant option of political or cultural secession.

[Bar-Face]

I have become a huge fan of Herman Cain and will never forgive the idiots in Jaw-ja for not electing him to the Senate. that would have given us a conservative to balance out Trent Lott.

[King Prout]

herman cain ping

[ops33]

For the same reason Dems oppose vouchers for public schools. They only want the Black vote, they don't care for the welfare or wellbeing of African-Americans.

[Old Professer]

My first encounter with black only facilities was at a Greyhound bus stop; I had to go so bad, and I couldn't believe my ears when I was told I couldn't use the men's room right outside the front door but had to go inside and stand in Line.

On the way out, a guy was leaving the outside stall and I asked him what it was all about; the grizzled, old black gentleman said, "Son, you'll learn soon enough..."

[4CJ]

Kudos for Mr. Cain. I was proud to vote for him in our primaries.

[avg_freeper]

If the AJC had a shred of legitimacy left this great article by an Atlantan would be on the front page of its politics section. It's good to hear from Herman again.