Depends on what actions they took. If we are to believe the woman in question (and at this point I only have her word on it so it may be ass covering), she realized that she was wrong long ago, worked hard to make amends and redress the harm she did not only with the individual in question but also with others and was speaking to people out of her own volition (not doing damage control after the fact) and urging them not to make the same mistake she made. If she is to be believed, her honesty about the situation is what got her in trouble. If she had not said anything about the incident there would not be the current kerfluffle.
I think that that behavior is to be commended, regardless of race. What we see most of the time, alas, is that people try and sweep those uncomfortable old incidents under the rug, pretend they never happened and only say something in retrospect if someone happens to dig it up. That isn't respectable behavior. It is very human, of course, but certainly not commendable. As for people being "understanding", it seems to me that the woman has been condemned by the NAACP and fired by Tom Vilsack and is being vilified by lots of people, including members of this list. She may or may not deserve it, but I don't see a whole lot of "understanding". I'll be curious to see if her story can be verified and if the whole video of her talk will be released by Breitbart. Judah On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Try flipping that around where it is a black farmer and a white gov't > worker. Not so sure that people would be so 'understanding'. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323214 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
