If I were a Republican, I would feel free to comment
on how to punish Trent Lott for his " Gone With The Wind " nostalgia
for the dead past of the Old South. Clearly those days of accepted
segregation of black people and respectable racism can NEVER come
back.
But ironically the most beloved black militant, Malcolm
X, for most of his Black Muslim career, preached just this: black
separatism. And he had a keen nose for sniffing out Jewish " control "
or influence in the civil rights movement. It escaped him until his
last days that liberal and radical Jews were just naturally empathetic
to the oppressed, to the victims of all forms of discrimination.
Today phony Democrats will try to make a lot of political
hay out of Trent Lott 's party time drivel.It is only human to
indulge the idiosyncrasies of a 100 year old LOYAL son of the
South ( also an old SOB ! )
It takes more political courage to tell the whole country
on the floor of the Senate or the House that HEALTH CARE is a basic
human right than to beat the dead horse of an OUTLAWED racism.
But few Democrats are champions of WORKING CLASS
America. " Political correctness " is a just a cheap way of
seeming PROGRESSIVE while millions of working class people -of
ALL races and ethnic groups - are on the edge of the social abyss !
What matters to our more RESPONSIBLE leaders is the
sacred illusion of democracy. Just replace RACE with CLASS and
a lot of Malcolm 's more wild rhetoric make great sense.
Just for the record, I voted for Ralph Nader.
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