[eddie willers]

and people who actually met him and talked with him - white and black - realized that his views were entirely theoretical and when it came to practical reality he had a helping hand for everybody.

There is an old saying:

In the North, they love the race and hate the individual.
In the South they hate the race and love the individual.

My father (born in 1919) was a lot like Lester.

Back in the late Sixties, when I was the long-haired liberal Meathead to his Archie Bunker, I would ask him, "What about Charlie Williams?"....and he'd say, "Well he's different". "What about Larry Hyde, and Marcus Wilson, and Leslie Stokes?"....."Well they're different too."

Heck.... ALL the black folks he knew were different. :-)

And its a fact....it was the Stokley Carmichaels and H. Rap Browns and the Huey Newtons that he was really talking about.

You see it today here on FR.

"I'm not a racist...I love Thomas Sowell and Condi Rice....it's Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson I can't stand.

Does that make me a racist?"

To the liberal media.....it does!
(Just ask Lester)

[AnAmericanMother]

My father in law was born in 1916, he was much the same. My dad was born in 1924, ditto. He would rant and rave about H. Rap Brown & Stokely Carmichael, but when some poor black guy was literally unconscious drunk in the gutter, my dad stopped, picked him up, found out where he lived and got him home. (His sister was not pleased to see him arriving in that condition, but that's beside the point.) Dad also marched at Selma. He was guided by what he thought was just and fair, not the color of anybody's skin.