Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
The south has always had issues with the civil rights movement.

Southerners will tell you that while whites and blacks can share the same drinking fountain in the south now, it was a dastardly act for the gummint to force all those good southerners to do what they'd never done before but would have been delighted to do, of their own free will, at some point. It's just a shame that the mean ol' gummint made them do it, thus muddying the issue. This southern line of reasoning extends to everything from the minimum wage to the Clean Water Act to the attempt to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. By forcing them to do the obvious right thing, gummint was leaning on the common people, and it wasn't fair. Heck, the worst thing about it was the suggestion that they had to be forced, by law, to do the obvious decent thing. It was true they'd never done it before, but they had been planning to get around to it, and probably would have done it five minutes after the law had been passed, if gummint hadn't gone and gotten its panties in a bunch. Now all they could do was bitch till the end of their days about the injustice of being forced to not lynch nigras when there was nothing good on TV and not pay their employees in shiny beads. Not that they'd have ever done those things anyway, but oh, the injustice of being told that they couldn't do it!

It's true that there are lots of racist crackers like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage who make endless racist remarks but they're never sacked or bothered about them, because the vast majority of their remarks go completely unnoticed. So it's unfair to bother one boxer over one comment when endless comments by commentators and pundits with national audiences go unnoticed all the time.
Some OLD people don't like Civil Rights but most any rational person doesn't have an issue with race, especially not to the extent there has been before. We have come a LONG way.

You apparently either don't understand the history or misunderstand the history of racism in the South or in America in general....you do realize that America was the only nation to have slavery as one of the issues that spurred on the Civil War.....that war created resentment and Reconstruction laid the roots for the KKK and other vigilanty racist organizations. Meanwhile other nations just bought the slaves and set them free....therefore little to no resentment and no casualties resulted from those ends to slavery.

What have Rush and Michael Savage said that is racist?


I do expect this to be worse than what Imus said which wasn't really racist and could barely pass for sexist......but Al Sharpton got in that spotlight, he does love the spotlight so.


And aren't you familiar with "Two wrongs don't make a right"....either it's wrong to say or it isn't wrong to say but that has to be the rule for EVERYONE......i'll be damned if you'd use the N word down here, North Carolina is extremely progressive in the larger cities, I can't speak much for the small towns but for the most part this state #1 never wanted to get in the Civil War to begin with and #2 slave labor wasn't a big part of the state's economy and we never developed the slave owning aristocracy that ran Virginia and South Carolina....and we are considered a Valley of Humility between Two Mountains of Conceit (those mountains being VA and SC)