Posted on 02/02/2008 1:48:36 PM PST by Borges
(The Indianapolis Star can't be posted so I'm paraphrasing and proving the link.)
He was Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon and Ford. He had to resign because of a racist 'joke'. He was 98.
P.S. Hope you liked my Obit style. Maybe I should work for the AP.
You guys have got to get over it ~
All those non-negro posters ever want is a tight macaca, a loose keyboard, and a warm thread to cry on.
You’re absolutely correct. His comment was stereotyping folks, but there was no racism indicated. The word racism is thrown about so much these days that the meaning is actually changing before our very eyes.
If you were really dictator of the world you wouldn't be posting to this thread.
There is a difference between a vote and an explanation.
If intolerence camps are ever franchised across the land, this man will be held up as the original sinner.
If intolerence camps are ever franchised across the land, this man will be held up as the original sinner.
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