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Keynote Speaker Slurs African Americans, Southerners – Seems the Democrats have found a keynote speaker for their Extreme Makeover in Boston whose background includes slamming the speech of African Americans, southerners and folks from New Jersey. The Boston Herald has unearthed a bunch of columns written by Democrat convention keynoter Christie Vilsack – wife of the Iowa governor. “I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand,” wrote Mrs. Vilsack, who represents John Kerry and her party on the convention podium Tuesday night. Mass Dems Weigh in On Home Grown...

Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, a key factor in John Kerry's primary sweep and the primetime convention speaker tomorrow, has derided blacks, southerners and easterners as bad speakers because she couldn't understand them. In inflammatory columns for her local newspaper obtained by the Herald, the normally soft-spoken Vilsack tore into several minority and ethnic groups while lampooning non-midwesterners for regional dialects. ``I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand, then switch to standard English when the situation requires,'' Vilsack wrote in a 1994 column in the Mount Pleasant News,...