Thanks for covering my six. You said what I should have said the first time around. Sometimes these voices inside my head, in 3 part dis-harmony, get me going sideways.

How does Th-rezay speak 5 languages and remain coherent

I am sickened that writers like you pander and fawn over white candidates who tout their “comfort” with black folk by trivial gestures such as hawking political cliches with “amens” attached to the end. This kind of drivel is what cheapens the black vote and keeps African Americans from making informed and wise decisions at the polls.

You obvisously are part and parcel of the liberal democratic mouthpeices whose sole agenda seems to be to disparage Republicans and prop up Democrats whose actions amount to nothing but “acting black” to win votes.

Edwards has absolutely nothing to show that he is concerned about the issues that affect African Americans and for that matter neither does John Kerry. Both of the John-Johns have done nothing but suckup to the gay crowd with their constant touching, hugging and homoerotic posturing.

You do a grave disservice to the African American electorate by perpetuating sterotypes in the black community during election cycles.

Rev Darryl L. Foster
Atlanta
770.968.1011

All Bush did was rattle off a list of black members in his administration to highlight the fact that in spite of being called a racist on some quarters, he personally selected people that he thot was best qualified to play an important role on his team.

On the otherhand, as far as I know, Kerry has yet to name one minority to his coalition of advisors; other than the big to do over trying to get McCain on board as vice-prez and possibly Teddy as AG, among a handful of former Clintonistas, who ended up resigning when found out to be liars.

You must have missed that part of W’s Urban League speech where he rattled off every Negro member of his administration. Did you hang your head in shame after that some-of-my-best-workahs-are-Negroes routine.

How come nothing on your site shows up when I Google you and Leonard Pitts Jr.? I think he is the greatest, and the Pulitzer folks agree. His Sept. 11 column was one of the four or five newspaper pieces I can cite after many years. Just Google “we’ll go forward from this moment.”

I’m trying to use an example to build an understanding of where her line concerning race is being drawn.

SueBob, I am from the Beaumont area, and I know of exactly which you speak. People think I’m nuts when I say that the most racist white people I know are Democrats. Jefferson County, Texas was a blue county in 2000. I don’t know if the racist attitudes are still there today, but they were rather prevalent in the 80s and 90s, sometimes going both ways.

I will say that I experienced some racist slurs while living in Beaumont. I was called ’skinny white …..” several times when just walking through the mall there. And yes, I was called that by black people I didn’t even know. The tension was very high. Conversely, I was once invited and went to a BSA dance (black student assc). They asked me about the ‘white girl’ dance, which I knew nothing about. Apparently, they were talking about line dancing. I didn’t take offense, but admitted I like rock-n-roll better than country. That was a more positive experience in that arena.

I have hope that Beaumont has changed for the better. Formerly racist Beaumont is the exception, not the rule, in Texas. But isn’t it funny that the very people that give Texas a bad name are constantly accusing the Republicans of being racists? I repeat, BLUE COUNTY since forever and ever.

And yes, trial lawyer Humphreys is about as crooked as they get. Funny story, though. In the ’90s, there was a big hoo-rah-rah over all the politicians from that area and some dirty dealings at Lamar University. All the democrats were voted out of office and replaced by Republicans. Unfortunately, the voters went back to their old habits two years later. Humphreys is one of their biggest supporters, if not their biggest supporter.

Concerning hair, it isn’t the fact that the hair is brittle, it’s the perm and hairstyle that’s of concern.

Bearing in mind that his formative years as son of a blue-collar mill worker took place in the 50’s, his environment wouldn’t be much of a stretch from your 80’s experience in Beaumont as mine were, due north up around Longview, TX.

Get far enough from town and one’ll find blacks still living in sharecropper type shanties.

I should have framed BoyJohn’s comfort level in that context, rather than the modern day context, when I asked: A comfort level with what?

Hip-hop?Crusin’ around in the General Lee, cranking up on Waylon Jennings’ “Good ole boys”.
“Hanging with the homeboys?” Hangin’ with the rednecks and,
Makin’ their way,
The only way they know how,
That’s just a little bit more than the law will allow,
putting the fear o’god in the black folks

Or just representing them when they happen to have a slam-dunk personal injury case?
Just good ol’ boys,
Wouldn’t change if they could,
Fightin’ the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.

Reparations?The South’s gonna do it again?

That said, Edwards’ comfort level is different lower than say, Charles Pickering or even ex-Dukes of Hazzarder Goober.

And to think his own state wouldn’t even vote for him again if given the chance.

GEEESH