--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: <snip> > > The point is a lot of people > > objected to how things were, but things were the way they were > > and most lived their lives as part of that system. Some lived > > their lives and spent some time fighting for increased equality, > > legally, socially and economically. But they still lived IN the > > system. Was everyone thus a racist? > > No, of course not and your observations bring a fresh perspective > to the debate. > > But just as those that you describe shouldn't unfairly be labelled > as "racists" so also they shouldn't be described as champions of > equality either.
Unless, of course, they "lived their lives and spent some time fighting for increased equality legally, socially and economically." You managed to overlook that part of the sentence. And remember that your description of Al Gore, Sr., who was one of those who spent his life fighting for equality for blacks, was: "the segregationist Al Gore, Sr.," as if he'd spent his life doing precisely the opposite. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
