Thanks for posting. The idea of a columnist getting into a debate with a reader, and then publicly displaying his version of the argument while labeling the person he was debating with an idiot is wrong on several levels.
However; I wonder if such a debate took place anywhere except in the author’s mind and the whole premise was just to set the stage for the author to wheel out his arguments.
All of that being said, I thought the author repeated many great points and for the most part his arugments were one of the better summations of why African Americans should look favorably on the GOP that I have seen to date.
Whether or not the person with which he was debating was real or fictional is mostly moot in that the author did a good job of accurately capturing the mood and spirit of the most public sentiments expressed by the African American community in today’s media while presenting well thought out responses.
Writers talk about their mail all the time.