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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> >Just once, I'd like to hear that argument and you adding the Tuskeegee
> Experiment comments he made
>
> I'll be glad to add that to the argument ... just as soon as Rev. Wright 
> adds
> the underground railroad to his sermons.  And the fact that the Constitution
> of the Confederate States of America prohibited the expansion of slavery and
> the first congressional act of that country was to provide for a transition 
> of
> "slave property" to citizenry rather than selling them to certain death in 
> the
> Caribbean sugar plantations as the northern holders did.  When Rev, Wright
> mentions all the rest of hte sacrifices people have made for the benefit of 
> his
> race, then I might be disposed to include Tuskeegee in mine.  We have a 
> saying
> around here, "Even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then,"  That 
> goes
> for race-blind hogs as well.
>

Not going to argue with that. I think that one of the biggest mistakes
that the black movement has made is to see the northerner as an ally
and friend. I think that the way Wright and others behave further
divides us. Just would not call it racism.

> >
> > Consipiracy theory is not racism. It might be nuts, but not racist.
>
> When the conspiracy threory specifically says those white people did this to
> us black people, it is indeed racist.

I call it nuts.

>
> >
> > His ears are to big, his voting record, his lack of experience, his
> > liberal politics.
>
> You see, you racist you!  You're saying black people have big ears, and your
> saying black people are too stupid or too lazy to have experience, and you 
> are
> saying that blacks are only in liberal politics because they want to be on
> the dole.  Just try floating those things among the dedicated Obamists and 
> see
> if that is not the response.
>

Actually, his ears remind me of my grandad's. I think that we have
gotten to a point where we can't even talk about race without being
afraid to make a blunder. Barak is right, we need to start a national
dialogue on race :>)

Rob - Va