Reply #21: No. I didn't forget them.

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I was focused on ethnic groups. I didn't want to bring up the rampant racism that is part of the gay community. And while there may be some racism in the Jewish community, and even if they were being pragmatic, they are the ones who were willing to live next to us, when others weren't. They are the ones whose lawyers would often take our cases when others wouldn't.

Nope. Just not going to go there.

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There were many white folks who marched in Birmingham, who came down to the South to campaign. But I'm not sure you realize that it was the murder of Viola Luizzo, a white housewife from Detroit who went to Selma, and was shot in the head by Klansmen, that got national attention. Two white men from New York, Michael Schwerner, aged 24, Andrew Goodman, 20, made the press all the way in England when they were shot and burned for fighting for civil rights in Mississippi.

There's an entire book, "Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights"
dedicated to the stories of the extremely courageous white men and women who took steps to fight Southern racism:

Virginia Foster Durr (1903—1999) was a housewife and political activist from Birmingham, Alabama, who fought against the poll tax and southern white male domination.

J. Waties Waring (1880—1968) was a federal judge from Charleston, South Carolina, who opened white primaries to black voters.

Anne McCarty Braden (born 1924) is a journalist and community organizer from Louisville, Kentucky, who defied racist real estate practices and the House Un-American Activities Committee and organized white southerners to support the civil rights movement.

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It was when a handful of white people stood up for racial injustice that other more complacent white people took notice, and rethought their positions.

It is when white people campaign for Obama that more complacent white people will be willing to vote for him as well.