Reply #8: Two things set the stage for me...

[WCGreen]

First, durring the urban uprisings in the mid to late 60's, when people rioted when restraint and patience just didn't get it anymore. my grandmother, a pious, devout Catholic, would refer to the people involved as "goddamn niggers." This while going to church every morning and saying the rosary every night....

I knew there was something there that didn't quite fit....

Then there was the Kent State fiasco. I was home sick the day the four kids were killed and my father was home with me and said "they should have killed more of the bastards."

A few months later, I was marching in the first Earth Day parade, organixing a school-wide walk out on the first aniversary of the Kent State shootings, I was in ninth grade and was forever cememented as a rebel.

So that is when I started to really look at what was going on around me.

Now outside of a few diversions caused by too much drink when I actually started to believe that republicans may have something there, I sobered up and have never looked back......