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Originally posted by Iron Steve
And you still fail to respond how as to how that apology for a single action means anything in light of a subsequent documented twenty-five year history of racist speech and action. My posit is that it is a meaningless sop and that the people his people (and by association him) lynched should not be bamboozled by this.
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It means, simply, that he's one up on Helms. Damning with faint praise, but since I promised club that if Byrd published an autobio I would post about it, I felt I should.
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By implication you tried to tag all Repubs as racist by virtue of southern republicans lack of support for the civil rights act (and subsequent republican presidential candidates exploitation of that position for electoral gain). I responded in like kind. Why is one criticism any more legitimate than the other?
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Bullshit. I responded to your statement that Dems should apologize to African-Americans for (on Planet Penske) trying to prevent the Civil Rights Act from passing. When I pointed out how utterly full of shit you were, you had to look back another hundred years to try and say something else meaningful (try, but fail).
