Comments on: A New Motion for a Two-Party Alabama http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/03/22/a-new-motion-for-a-two-party-alabama/ Changing the World, A Keystroke at a Time Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:30:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Yana Davis http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/03/22/a-new-motion-for-a-two-party-alabama/#comment-5906 Yana Davis Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:18:49 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/index.php/gulf-shores/a-new-motion-for-a-two-party-alabama/#comment-5906 If Brad is serious, he's making the same racist argument for segregation by generations of Klansmen and before for slavery by generations of white plantation owners. Segregation certainly didn't save African American women from rape and it didn't save any white women from it either. Rape is a crime of violence committed by one human being against another. Government-sponsored apartheid and racism doesn't save anybody from anything. And I suggest that Brad visit George Wallace's later years, when Wallace recanted his racism and apologized to African Americans at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. It didn't change the pain he'd caused, but it was the right thing to do. If Brad is serious, he’s making the same racist argument for segregation by generations of Klansmen and before for slavery by generations of white plantation owners.

Segregation certainly didn’t save African American women from rape and it didn’t save any white women from it either.

Rape is a crime of violence committed by one human being against another. Government-sponsored apartheid and racism doesn’t save anybody from anything.

And I suggest that Brad visit George Wallace’s later years, when Wallace recanted his racism and apologized to African Americans at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. It didn’t change the pain he’d caused, but it was the right thing to do.

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