Foxfyre wrote:nimh wrote:Foxfyre wrote:How many of these people are anti-Bush, anti-GOP, or anti-George Allen people? Is there any verification that they actually exist? Does your Blog source provide that information anywhere?
Uhm, hello - it's true that
I did already just denounce this tactic of yours of asking questions that you apparently have no interest in to actually see answered - either out of laziness or because you're just perfectly happy to let the questions remain out there as just as many reasons to shrug some news off - but in this case it is perhaps
all too blatant, no? I mean, considering that there is this
in the very post you are responding to:
So, ergo, yes, they exist; as is shown in the sources that yes, are provided by the blog; and no, most are not "anti-GOP", as you could have found out easily yourself by clicking the friggin' link and checking out the sources given there.
I'll concede that most of the sources may be real people. How do you determine they are not anti-GOP or that the hearsay sources some cite are real people?
Frankly, I find their testimony to be highly suspect based on far more credible witnesses who are saying it just ain't so. I smell another Salon orchestrated smear campaign which would not be the first time they had grossly misrepresented somebody they wanted to take down.
Cyclop posted before I could add an edit.
I do not for a minute believe any Southern boy age 50 or older has never heard or used the 'n' word. But I can believe that he can be telling it like it is when he says it was not part of his vocabulary and it is 'not who he is'. That is true of most of us who were born and raised in the south amidst a mixed culture of segregationists and those who opposed segregation; those who were taught from birth that black people were inferior and those who knew better. Did I ever use the 'n' word? Probably, but I can honestly say I cannot remember a time when I did. Did I ever think it when accosted or confronted by a belligerant, stupid, disagreeable black person? Of course I did. My black firends could say it, but I couldn't.
But since that time I have been heavily involved in organizations dedicated to eliminating racism, sexism, and all the other bad 'isms. My kids had never heard another human say the 'n' word until they spent some time with Texas cousins in their middle school years. (They were horrified.) But those same cousins who talked that way then no longer talk that way.
We have all evolved, grown, learned, changed our perspectives on things, and become hopefully better than we once were. To judge somebody on what they were in college or as a young adult is both dishonest and destructive. All of us should be judged on our ovreall track record and who we are now.
And I think that's what we should shoot for.
