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- Carolyn says
- Jun 17 2008, 03:19 PM
"What happened in Durham in 2006 and beyond is little different than what happened in Scottsboro, Alabama, in the early 1930s. The difference was that the races were reversed. However, to understand this point is also to admit that despite their having suffered many injustices, blacks in a position of power are just as capable of perverting justice as the worst of Jim Crow whites."
Bill has given us the whole problem. It is not the truth but the Will to admit it's the truth that matters. And the curse of the Duke hoax was that Brodhead, the NC NAACP, Nancy Grace, the New York Times, etc. did NOT possess then and do NOT possess now the Will to admit this. And, as Perkinson has just proven, neither does he.
This lack of Will is the same thing that scared me in the OJ murder trial, in the Duke hoax, and that scares me now as Barack ("Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about 'God DAMN America') Obama wins the Democratic nomination is this terrifying Will of so many to NOT admit the truth. Facts make no difference, common sense, honesty, etc. Only ideology. Ideologically blinded people admit only to is that which justifies their blindness. Pile the mountains of evidence up to the heights of the Himalayas - it makes no difference. The ideologically blinded will merely walk past it, tapping their white canes and see nothing.
Bill nailed it. It is not the truth, but the WILL to admit the truth which matters. If that Will turns its back on the truth and goosesteps off in the opposite direction, we can not make them see they're wrong, we can only see to defending ourselves against that wrong. And to warning the world, as Bill has just done, to that wrong. Warning that that Will is powerful - and, if we do nothing, say nothing, it will triumph.
(But, of course, Leni Riefenstahl's film could tell you that.)
I so agree with you Carolyn. Watch what happens with this election, as a poster on another thread said, if you object to anything about Obama, you are labeled as a "racist."
I would be willing to bet that Obama will pick another "Bill" for his VP- Richardson. The idea that he represents the Latino/Hispanic community is VERY spurious. The product of Eastern boarding schools and the Clinton administration, he had to get a Spanish tutor before he ran for governor of NM. However, given the Obama campaign's purported electoral college strategy- forget Ohio and Florida, concentrate on New Mexico, Colorado, Georgia, Virginia and North Carolina- it's obvious that the Obama campaign has made this election about race loyalty. They'll promote Richardson as a man to fix the energy crisis since he was Secretary of Energy- however, I'd like a look at his record as Clinton's appointee. Also, it rubs the Clintons' noses in it.
This is just a LOVELY election season! (I need the sarcasm smiley too!)
Great article, Bill. You are an amazing teacher to all of us!
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