I'd be almost certain that they just didn't know who had helped them in the past. Or how or where help may have come from. Ignorance knows no color line and it seems easy for folks to view the racial situation in this country as being rather monolithic when the Truth is a much more intricate thing.



The media is a problem in and of itself and has been for quite some time.

I do not issues any statements to media anymore at all if and when they bother to show up. Have had too many situations where what I have said was either edited to be taken completely out of context or was just plain used in an evil fashion to even bother with media anymore. "No Comment" is all they get from me these days.



I don't buy into that tired old meme.

Matter of fact, having lived in both the North and the South of this nation, I can testify to the kind of racial prejudice that exists all too often in -- the NORTH.

The Northern Liberal first declares their lack of prejudice and then uses that as a license to be far more prejudicial than any Southerner I've ever met. (And, yes, I've met some prejudicial Southerners in my day. But they are more upfront and honest about their prejudice, which at leasts opens a door for communication on the subject. And they are fewer and farther between than the current meme tries to sell. The sons and daughters of the "old south" from the 40s and 50s have done an outstanding job of getting past the things that their parents said and did. They lived through the Civil Rights era of the times and have changed.

Look at Atlanta. It may have "changed" too far in the other direction!



Earthshaking changes take place all the time all around us, my friend. Don't expect them to be touted by the media and other sources that are "of the world" though. Those forces do indeed have an agenda.

I lived through the Civil Rights era. Today, if you google or otherwise research Dr. Martin Luther King, you will find more writing about him and Ghandi than you will about him and Jesus! That in and of itself is an absurdity and a lie. Dr. King was first and foremost a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and was very open about that. His very last speech, given the night before he was killed, he told everyone at that church that he had, "Been to the mountaintop!" -- referring to the same mountaintop upon which Jesus met with the prophets before his crucifision. But no, the world says MLK was practicing the tactics of Ghandi. In reality, MLK only *referenced* the work of Ghandi in his many writings on the subject of freedom and equality.

The change that occurred during the 60s regarding civil rights for black americans did not come about due to any passage of any law by any politicians. They only jumped onto the bandwagon with that in an underhanded attempt to garner the credit for what had already taken place -- the hearts and minds of the american people had been changed because they had been exposed to the plight of the black americans via the REAL civil rights movement.

The first person to register blacks to vote in the south during that era was a white presbyterian minister. A Republican, BTW. He set up a table and quietly proceeded to register a few very brave souls. He was very brave himself, as was his family, you can imagine the kind of threats that must have ensued. He was moved by the preachings and teachings of his fellow pastor in Christ, Martin Luther King, Jr. And he acted.

The REAL people in this world are the ones who have changed things and shall continue to change things. They do not seek publicity. They do not need it. Like yourself, Russ.

You don't need a bumber sticker to tell people that you perform "random acts of kindness" -- because if you had that sticker, it would become the license to sit back and do nothing at all.


--Mac