[vanmorrison]

"Ever heard of Social Darwinism, Nordic Supremacy, eugenics, etc ? These attitudes were shared by all educated whites between 1876 and the 1930's. They were taught in schools and universities, preached in churches, and regarded as the obvious truth by every voice of moral, scientific, political, and intellectual authority in white America."

Bullshit!

"Telling someone with a foot on the back of his neck to take a larger view of things and look beyond his "fetishistic" petty concerns is ludicrous. You fight for your freedom any way you can and take whatever help is offered. Help came almost entirely from the left. None came from conservatives."

More bullshit!

"The ends of slavery and Jim Crow were federal big government statism at its best so expecting blacks to become "states' rights" or "limited government" or "night watchman state" advocates is foolish."

Bullshit times three!

So go ahead and vote for the Democrats. They agree with your bullshit!

[Sam the Sham]

It is obvious that your ignorance is so extreme, so total, so deliberate that you have nothing intelligent to say in response and can only resort to obscenities.

[Rmack]

As a person of African descent living in America I must say that your historical ignorance of the social atrocities committed against blacks in this country is tantamount to the myriad of my black brethren who continue to blindly support democrats.

Now I agree that for the sake of our own sanity and sanctity we should forgive those whites for what happened. But as a logical, living and breathing creature I cannot turn a blind eye and pretend that my own government did not supported many of these "rebel" rousings.

Furthermore, to your point that blacks don't need special treatment and should pull themselves up by they're own boot straps, I agree. Nevertheless,we must remember the past lest we be doomed to repeat it. Often times those communities that the white supremacist destroyed were communities like Greenwood (Often Called the black Wall Street), which was an epicenter of "real" black progress and self-sufficiency. In essence, in the past whenever blacks attempted to make a life for themselves and exercise whatever rights they presumably had, groups like the KKK came and disenfranchised them to make sure that blacks remained the dregs of society. All done in the name of maintaining what was to them apparent white supremacy.

It's one thing to say get over it, yet an entirely different thing to say forget about it. Yes, in our country's not so distant past there was state sponsored terrorism. I have moved on, but I won't forget about it. This is not about whether blacks support democrats or republicans. its about admitting the truth about the past and moving on from there.