--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- 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. > > He did.
He did not. He spent his life--as I said-- fighting for equality for blacks. That's what he's known for. > Stop defending him just because you met him when you were a student > at Oberlin College back in the days when he WAS a practising > segregationist... I never met him, but of course he was not a practicing segregationist, or he would never have been invited to give the keynote address at the 1959 Oberlin Mock Convention. Shemp, you can't rewrite history just because you feel like dumping on Democrats. 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/
