Reply #113: insists he knows better

[Isome]

But isn't that always the way? Your experiences, insight, and/or general observations aren't valid if they don't conform to their own. *pbbbbbbbbbbbbttt*

It's more than a little disappointing to find those sentiments here! I went 'round & 'round with a woman about the overall goodness of the party, and the need to get involved in it, lest it continue to remember us only at election time. She was adamant that the members of the two parties (GOP & Dems) were, for all intents and purposes, the same, so there's no use in bothering with either of them. This is a very smart woman, and I was in awe of her intelligence, but I kept going at it until the discussion became so heated it bordered on hostile.

Then, I started posting to DU and encountered the very type of people she told me dominated the parties: those who see the Black voter mainly in terms of negative stereotypes, and the paternalistic liberals who treat and respond to the group as recalcitrant children who need to be told what's good for them, and insist on interpreting their realities for them.

...makes me wanna' holler, throw up both my hands. ;-)