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**TheBestCheapestOEM** · 07-04-2010, 01:54 AM

The man has done damage to Blacks all his life first it was the Racism of Segregation and hate, then it turned into the soft racism of low expectaions and paternalism. It can be argued that this second form of racism has done more damage to blacks than the first. He just found another outlet to screw blacks.

BTW -- Pinky does seem to be disputing that Byrd cast racist votes long after he was a recruiter for the KKK.

This is actually a form of racism which was espoused as a means to progress by the African American community for a significant amount of time; you're forgetting that the dialogue of racism is continually evolving, and what we view as racism now was not viewed as racist at the time. Much of the early civil rights movement espoused these same views. In today's light, of course it's no longer acceptable, but we need to keep some historical perspective here. I'm not sure why I'm bothering with this, but yeah...

07-04-2010, 01:54 AM	#14
TheBestCheapestOEM Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 378 Senior Member	The man has done damage to Blacks all his life first it was the Racism of Segregation and hate, then it turned into the soft racism of low expectaions and paternalism. It can be argued that this second form of racism has done more damage to blacks than the first. He just found another outlet to screw blacks. BTW -- Pinky does seem to be disputing that Byrd cast racist votes long after he was a recruiter for the KKK. This is actually a form of racism which was espoused as a means to progress by the African American community for a significant amount of time; you're forgetting that the dialogue of racism is continually evolving, and what we view as racism now was not viewed as racist at the time. Much of the early civil rights movement espoused these same views. In today's light, of course it's no longer acceptable, but we need to keep some historical perspective here. I'm not sure why I'm bothering with this, but yeah...
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