Reply #10: The most important sentence in Webb's article ....

[JoePhilly]

"The old South was a three-tiered society, with blacks and hard-put whites both dominated by white elites who manipulated racial tensions in order to retain power."

Hey Jim ... WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU IDIOT ... in the sentence above, you have accurately described the current GOP and explained the rise of Mark Williams, the tea Party, Andrew Breitbart, Fox News, and the smearing of Shirley Sherrod (among others).

And Jim ... when the Tea Party and the GOP claims to want to treat all people equal, and then uses that to call for and end to affirmative action or other programs for minorities ... what they actually mean is that they want to be able to DISCRIMINATE against minorities AT WILL ... AT ANY TIME ... and that the government should have no position on that ... and if you are confused by that perspective ... call Rand Paul and he can explain it to you.