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You know, I’m just plumb tired of all this.

If they want to think that Republican=racist and/or Conservative=racist then let them.

I don’t care anymore.

And that, from their standpoint, should be a tragedy. Because at one time, I stood up for racial equality—here in Alabama it wasn’t just black folks getting their freedom but whites determined it was the right thing to do, the Christian thing to do and came to accept and understand the claims blacks were making in regard to their rights.

But I don’t care anymore.

I thought by now things would be different. I thought that being equal was enough. I didn’t think they wanted me to be beneath their feet like their daddy’s were under my ancestors. So they just want to recycle all his with them on top and me below.

But that was wrong then, and it would be wrong now.

Jim Crow was wrong, but so was Reginald Denny.

So, if they expect me to pay for something I didn’t do, forget it. I will give them respect as human beings—like any human being, and that is all they should want.

Beyond that, I’m not budging. Mess with me, and you’ll get my horns.