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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 02:20 PM
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122. Absolutely they do! I thought that was settled some time ago.
I am disgusted that such blatant racism is rampant today in our electoral process. Even carried out by an African American Blackwell. I know that there were others too, but his efforts add insult to injury.

You know, recently I watched Mississippi Burning again and since it was after the "election" the injustice and the evil of the White "Christian" KKK people was so horrid. So sickening. The hypocrisy was so obvious. There were the decent, good black people and the white monsters who thought they were right fine folks. I don't know, something hit me, the suffering of the blacks, touched me in a new way. I always knew that they suffered, but now I could relate to the injustice, the powerlessness, the cruelty of fate and evil dictators running things. Mind you, I am white, and it was only for a split second that I got a glimpse of this...and I don't mean that it's the same thing that the blacks suffered through because it is not, it's not even close. So I don't mean to make light of their suffering. Just to say that for the first time in my life, for a very brief moment I could understand how horrible it must have been to be up against such injustice that was legal, ordained by the law, by society. It was an awful feeling.
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