Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad that Rosa Parks ended racism; I just have trouble understanding why seventy-nine percent of Republicans are willing to verbally express racial prejudice. Most Democrats demonstrate implicit racial prejudice, too, which is odd, because Rosa Parks ended racism.
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Don’t forget she was also probably a Republican.
Hard to say, since in those days the party was infested with RINOs. We can all agree she was a hardcore conservative, just like MLK. (Huh, wonder why they never say that about Malcolm X…)
The link in that Slate article to the AP survey is broken and I wish I could take a deeper look. Some of the conclusion doesn’t pass the smell test for me:
IMHO, the gap is not that narrow between Dem and Repub Americans, especially since around 20% of Dems ARE black while only 1-2% of Repubs are.
Remember, libruuuls are the real racists. Just ask Rush Limbaugh (Sex Tourist – FL)
I remember listening to a conversation among white coworkers a few years ago i which they all agreed that racism no longer exists and “it’s just some people being oversensitive.” That’s how you think if you live in a little white bubble.
The name of Rosa Parks reminded me,
In 1961 I was in the US Navy stationed aboard a ship in Norfolk, Virginia. I had been married a few months and my then 18 year old wife joined me in Norfolk. We lived in the Navy housing complex named after RAdm Ben Morrell. (It was demolished years ago.)
An African-American couple lived in the apartment above us. Her name was Johnnie Mae. She invited my wife to go to the movies at the base theater. Johnnie Mae’s husband drove them to the theater. To get back home when the movie was over they had to take the city bus.
When they got on, Johnnie Mae went to the back of the bus. My wife joined her. Johnnie Mae told her to sit in the front of the bus. Other passengers were looking at my wife. My wife refused to move. She stayed in the back of the bus until they got off the bus.
I married a good woman.