We must accept the teachings of the victorious north:
1)it is wrong, & racist to judge
2)character doesn't matter
3)deviding people by skin color is mandated by law
Don't bother trying. You have way too many strikes against you to dig yourself out of that hole. I am amazed you even have the courage to show your face in public.< /sarcasm >
Seriously, a deliciously ironic read (but a lot of Freepers aren't going to like it because you've just bopped them squarely on the nose.)
Have been a Republican since the early sixties and always believed the party stands for equal opportunities for all - regardless of gender or race. How could I have been wrong for so long? :>)
I, too, must apologize for ever thinking that "States' Rights" has nothing to do with the 10th Amendment, but is merely a code word for 'racist'.
I too, am Southern. Not realizing place of birth was optional, and having known people from all across this great land, I'm happy that my "default" switch chose the South. Born and raised in Coweta County, Georgia, now living in Charleston, SC, I remain entrenched in "Southern Heritage".
Being from the South does not mean that I naturally oppose the promise contained in the Declaration of Independence "...that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". Quite the contrary.
The difficulty I have is that discrimination, in the form of segregation, has been replaced with discrimination in the form of affirmative action. Lott's idiotic remark will make this harder to make. Damn him.
It's terrible to broadbrush anyone. But for as much as you, your friends, your fellow parishioners and neighbors have been broadbrushed as racists, so too have we broadbrushed most northern liberals as feminists, gays, socialists and communinsts.
For whatever reason, too many Southern Baptist racist whites dropped their allegence to the democratic party and became republicans. Probably because so many democrats shunned God in public places, they found a safe haven with republicans that beliver a courthouse without a creche at Christmas is sinful. Unfortunately, we as republicans welcomed them.
The reason I say unfortunatley, is because we have never strived to encourage them to change their beliefs about race to be like yours. Instead we encouraged them to have the courage to stick to their convictions.
Sometimes our convictions need challenged and examined. Sometimes modification and change do need to be implemented. And change is sometimes difficult to implement and forget the ways of the past.
Republicans as Democrats have been too reluctant to distance themselves from their wing nuts. Just as radical feminists and socialists are the wing nuts of the Democrats, so are the the racists (whether overt or subliminal) in our party. We too often don't either lead the racists to less racist beliefs or don't distance ourselves from them. Until we do, we will continue to be labeled racist just as we label the democrats as gay loving, feminist driven, commie supporting liberals.
Who is accusing you? Of what?
She was? I thought she came from a Republican (the only party that would register blacks in Alabama then) family.
Sorry brother, that is enough to get you drummed out of the Republican Party and/or shot at sunrise! You are a born racist dude! Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, President Bush, Rove, the DNC and the anti-American traitor scum on the DU board ALL AGREE on this!
Let's see. Male, white, Catholic, Dixie singing, gun owning, anti-abortion, south of the Mason Dixon line, Grunt and Republican.
Well, (according to the left/liberals/socialist/democRATs), I guess I messed up by marrying a beautiful, well educated, very conservative women of African heritage.
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