I can relate to Herman on growing up doing the early 60's. Our gang of redneck brothers would take turns as look outs as we drank from the white and colored water fountains and would run and play in the colored and white sides of the laundry mats. Our parents on each side would just give up and let us be. We were all just country boys who got separated in elementary school but came back together in the integrated Junior High and High School.
"His rhetoric is nevertheless telling. Racism isn't just a problem in America, he says, it's still a problem because of liberals; he didn't just leave the Democratic party, he left its "plantation;" he didn't just fail to see the racial implications of the food stamp comment, he failed to see it "as a black man."
"His rhetoric is nevertheless telling. Racism isn't just a problem in America, he says, it's still a problem because of liberals; he didn't just leave the Democratic party, he left its "plantation;" he didn't just fail to see the racial implications of the food stamp comment, he failed to see it "as a black man."