Alan, please take pity on your readers and give a qualification when you post something.  For the NE Democratic Journal posting, at least give us the “heads up” that it is a Minor column.  PUH-leeze.  Can anyone really read something he writes these days and consider it anything other than dribble?  I realize it is an opinion piece.  That much is evident when you read it and there is no reference to anything that is factual.  It is his opinion.  I realize the man gave a lot and did a lot years ago.  But seriously.....why he continues to get published is beyond me.  I am guessing you might....MIGHT be able to draw a correlation to these types of opinions and slanted “journalism” and the decline of subscriptions to rags like the NE Democratic Journal and the Clarion Liar.  Regardless of what Hampton, Minor and their ilk want to believe, it has NOTHING to do with racism.  Minor himself pointed out “Certainly the Republicans have stolen away the moral high ground from Democrats and successfully made it a political issue.” I wonder if Hampton and Minor ever considered for one moment...one brief encounter with lucid thought....whether the 56% of the voters in MS voted for McCain b/c they agreed with the ideas and promises the man espoused and DISAGREED with the ideas and promises espoused by the other candidate.  I voted for McCain not b/c he was white.  I voted for McCain because I liked what he brought to the table more than what the other guy brought to the table.  It had nothing to do with the color of Obama’s skin.  Rather, it had everything to do with me not buying the “hope and change” bait and switch.

In fact, if one were to objectively consider (liberals can’t do this) how many morally conservative (don’t believe in abortion/gay marriage) African Americans voted for Obama, one wonders how many based their decision on race rather than ideas?  Of course, Libs like Hampton and Minor can’t do this.  Because then they would have to consider the possibility, and maybe the reality, that race plays a larger factor today in the African American community in Mississippi than what they claim it does in the white community.

Oh, and I eagerly await the columns where the citizens of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas are all called racists, too.  Last time I looked at the electoral map, they all went with McCain. 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/states_map/index.html

It’s kind of sad that Mr. Minor got stuck in the 60’s. It must be tough for someone who wrote so much about getting past race, being unable himself to get past race.

Oh, and Billy McCoy and the “pay my way” state Dems are way off balance all by themselves. They don’t need Haley’s help for that.

I’m really confused.  Bush got 60% of the vote in 2004 running against a white guy.  How could a Republican candidate have won in MS without racism playing a role?  He must have used morals as a political nuc-u-ler weapon on voters.  Only explanation…

I agree with all of the above.  And that little snipe about laying the murder of that little boy who was starved to death at the feet of Barbour is just as despicable as those who laid the 9/11 terrorists bombings at the feet of Bush.  The bottom line is, there is evil in the world.  People do bad thing, and it sucks.  For him to make political hay out of it is indescribably awful.

Alan, you are beating your head against a brick wall.  You are under the misconception that Minor’s comments are based in “logic” and “fact”.  Those are mythical creatures to him.

Alan, I do realize you know the difference.  I was being sarcastic.  Didn’t want you to take offense to the post.