I am an older white woman, a retired teacher.

[madfloridian]

430. I already defended you on that.

Several times.

It was one of the very first posters here who said it, not you.

I did not see your apology until after this was posted, but as long as the thread in AA goes on with so many things being said that are hurtful to all....then it is hard to accept it wholeheartedly.

I don't think you directed anything toward me personally.

But there are undertones that include so many many people who are good people and good Democrats no matter their color.

I will be frank. I disagree with President Obama on the NSA privacy issues, the TPP which will harm our country badly, his proposed cuts to Social Security in the name of Chained CPI, and his education policy which is destroying America's public education system. But if I were upset because of his color, my late hubby and I would not have keep our area supplied with yard signs for him...a real job because they kept getting stolen in the right wing area where I live.

I have finally decided that I needed to defend why I posted, and as you said in the AA forum I was told to read (and then accused of lying by someone else who said of course I knew where it was)...I put it in my journal just as you said were doing with your posts.

I see a post from a week or so ago was posted in the AA forum to prove that I knew about the AA forum. No, I didn't. Someone mentioned it but I was not aware. To those who want to drag up all my old posts, just go to my username in any post, click it, and there's my journal. If you want individual posts you have to search on them I guess. I am proud of what I posted through the almost 13 years I have been here. It's been an evolving journey in some ways, and it shows in my posts that I am more liberal than ever.

There is nothing I can say to convince you that though I am a Southerner I am not a bigot. I believe that nearly all the old white men and women here at DU are more liberal than the president.

SO...I am left defending myself while knowing that it is useless to do so.