[BroJoeK]

lentulusgracchus: "The historian of Texas, T.R. Fehrenbach, commented that it was "planter liberalism" and its use, and the use of slaves, to belittle yeoman whites that were the genesis of racist odium against the slaves, who were complete pawns in the social-distancing game being played by the planter class and their professional- and business-class supporters."

I'm not sure where this leads, but I do agree with your point here.

lentulusgracchus: "There has been little progress overall in ending the animus... mainly because there are too few stakeholders in reconciliation..."

We should be the "stakeholders in reconciliation," because it is both morally and politically (for us, if not Dems) the right thing to do.

[lentulusgracchus]

We should be the "stakeholders in reconciliation," because it is both morally and politically (for us, if not Dems) the right thing to do.

Concurring bump. Strides have already been made with key appointments of people like Condi Rice and the great Clarence Thomas. Too bad Condi's such a rhino .... but then she came up as helpmeet to Colon Bowel, who really is a Manor Bush Original RiNO.

Enough people like J.C. Watts and Charles Barkley and Ken Hamlin have made some noise for conservatives in the black community, that I think we'll start to get our harvest in the coming generation as dazed and confused blacks begin to shake off the ACLU blinders and the James Carville- Vernon Jordan nitrous oxide.