For all your incoherent rambling, I will give you something. You must have cojones the size of watermelons to talk like that in Dayton, OH. Last time I was through Dayton I thought for a minute that I was in a particularly ethnic section of south Zimbabwe. Without the great wildlife, of course.

Amazing how you take single incidents out of history and use them to try and paint a picture of the person you're talking about. Lester Maddox was a bigot, no-one really disagrees with that. However, his actions while in office show more truth than that picture does. He appointed more blacks to work in his administration than any previous governor in the state's history, and helped blacks more than any other governor in the state before him also. But you're right, that obviously means he was a horrible racist. My bad, I always forget that my whiteness doesn't allow me to make that judgment call. I'm not defending his actions at his restaurant, they were despicable, but I believe that his latter actions made up for it. His one blemish (that I know of) while in office was not letting Dr. King's body lie in state in the state capital.

ok here it is......half of you sumbitches is racists......half of you sumbitches ain't.....and half of you sumbitches don't kno' sh!t from shinola......

It's just you who is racist. Or did you spend your time in the 60s writing fabulous speeches of racial reconciliation for your old boss Lester Maddox? And before you go and defend your hero, myrmidons, this is who Neal still thinks was a swell guy who wasn't a racist at all:

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First off the vast majority of people who dislike Obama do so because they either disagree with his policies or just on partisan principle. That is no different then every president before him. The racism problem comes in part because there is more than just a little racism out there. How many examples do we have to see? Here in Jacksonville a tea Party protester had a photoshop pic of Obama dressed like a African with a bone through his nose. I have seen emails of photoshopped pics of the White House lawn turned into a watermelon patch. How about the bumper sticker that was sold at a conservative Pac conference that made reference to changing the name from White House or something to that effect? How about Obama as Aunt Jemima? Let's be honest here. As a white guy who was born and raised in the south, who has mostly white conservative friends, I know exactly what is said in bars and behind closed doors. For me personally I just roll my eyes usually and disagree when it becomes over the top. I believe in freedom of speech so I tolerate those things I do not agree with. All that said any notion that racism does not play a part in a measurable number of peoples assesment is quite frankly stupid. It is out there. It is not as bad as soem make it out to be but that is no dofferent then those on the right acting as if it does not exist. Neal is quick to point out anytime a false allegation of racism can be shown but never talks about it when it is real.

SHOES?!?!?!!

What do you have against Shinola?

I've posted this before, but its so revealing that I think about it a lot and perhaps so should everyone else.
Last summer my grandson turned 18 and, yes, he is government schooled. While riding in the car with us my wife asked him if and who he was going to vote for for president.
He said Obama.
My wife asked why.
My grandson said that it was time that a "brutha" was president.
And, trust me when I say that my grandson, in spite of my best efforts, can't tell the difference between s#&t and Shinola, let alone liberal and conservative. In other words, a typical 18 year old kid.

I like how crybaby conservatives complain that Obama was a community organizer. Is that supposed to be offensive to the crybabies? that an American helped the community rather than just giving money to iraq. My guess is most of the braindead hick crybaby conservatives could not even do half the work a community organizer does.