Reply #14: Not that I entirely agree, but weren't we all just crowing here that we needed these conversations?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

I thought the whole lesson that we were supposed to learn from the Sherrod case was that we needed to have more frank discussions about race. Well, here's one, and this is the reaction it's being met with.

Not that I terribly disagree with it, but we can't both be immediately jumping to ask if someone's lost there mind on one hand, and then on the other say we should be more open. That's not an open environment at all, and it's certainly not one in which people can feel free to discuss race relations.