--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > The point is a lot of people > > > objected to how things were, but things were the way they were > > > and most lived their lives as part of that system. Some lived > > > their lives and spent some time fighting for increased equality, > > > legally, socially and economically. But they still lived IN the > > > system. Was everyone thus a racist? > > > > No, of course not and your observations bring a fresh perspective > > to the debate. > > > > But just as those that you describe shouldn't unfairly be labelled > > as "racists" so also they shouldn't be described as champions of > > equality either. > > Unless, of course, they "lived their lives and spent > some time fighting for increased equality legally, > socially and economically." You managed to overlook > that part of the sentence. > > And remember that your description of Al Gore, Sr., > who was one of those who spent his life fighting > for equality for blacks, was: "the segregationist > Al Gore, Sr.," as if he'd spent his life doing > precisely the opposite.
He did. Stop defending him just because you met him when you were a student at Oberlin College back in the days when he WAS a practising segregationist... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
