A&E Reverses Decision to ‘Suspend’ Phil Robertson (The Full A&E Statement)

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37. Maybe he's senile?

I don't know how you can hold a masters degree and spout the garbage that fell from his lips.

I grew up in Chicago, and personally witnessed whites talking smack against blacks, I even witnessed dirty looks whites would give blacks, and of course being in the hot bed during the '68 Chicago riots living in the middle of it, there were many whites who held a lot of animosity towards blacks during and after that time. I'd heard the N word used so many times, it was quite disturbing because at the time, I was only 16 y/o/ and was a bit confused as to what was happening. I attended public schools and we had some minorities in our classrooms, and we were separated by fear of one another. I never understood why, until later in life. We were afraid of what each of us was about. Afraid of dialogue. What to say, how to say it.

I left Chicago in '69 and returned in '74, and made many new friends, quite a few were not whites, mostly blacks, Puerto Rican Americans, Mexican Americans and a few Japanese Americans. In fact, myself and another white were the minority in our group. We seemed to all get along very well, and never allowed our difference in skin pigmentation to get in the way of debates we would sometimes have with one another. We hung out together, drank together, dined together, burned dubies together and slept together.

I find it difficult to believe that a 67 year old man has never seen or heard disparaging comments toward a minority. Hard for me to believe.