re: #55 jamesfirecat

Jesus Christ, I know DF has a ton of faults but i really havenever got a racist vibe from him. Do we have to jump down his throat just because? I really do not get why he is seeing so much hate, or at least why he is and Politica Aithiest isn’t, since PA was the first one to bring up forced bussing…

Sorry about getting back so late, but people performing any form of pushback to Civil Rights-era achievements rubs me entirely the wrong way, from my own personal experience of living in northern Louisiana during the 1960s-1990s. I witnessed some extremely ugly racism during that time, up to and including the 1991 Governor’s race when white supremacist David Duke came within a whisker of winning that race. The area that I lived in at the time, he WON, rather handily - (this was one of the reasons I moved out, and have only gone back a few times for family-related events).
As evidenced by federal courts striking down the state school voucher system less than a month ago, the primary basis for its removal was because it was in fact being used to circumvent state school desegregation - and we’re closing on SIXTY YEARS after Brown v Board of Education - the same racism that infects the area is still very much alive and well today.
It wasn’t a slam against DF personally, but ascribe it to the fact that I have pretty much a zero tolerance disposition to lip-service to a situation that I personally witnessed and experienced.