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Well, I do suppose that there have been enough derails in this thread.....
They certainly do get a pass. I suppose I get that, but I think it goes beyond that. Do you think Clarence Thomas or Condoleeza Rice would get a pass from anyone for using the "N" word? Yet Robert Byrd seemed to. Jackson demanded the firing of Don Imus for his comments. Jackson is still treated as the go to guy on racial equality even though he is a racist himself, or at least by what I would figure to be "racially insensitive" by his own standards, using terms like "hymie town". Trent Lott got destroyed for praise of Strom Thurmond at the guy's birthday party (I think it was his birthday party).
Isn't racism racism regardless of who spews it forth?
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