Reply #108: I'm torn by his comments actually

[hollowdweller]

On one hand Webb is right on a LOT of issues and certainly is way to the left of people like Lieberman or Nelson or even Lincoln.

On the other hand all the stuff he says in the article I've heard a lot of people who live in the south spout who are white and really have never thought about how it is to be a minority.

On the THIRD hand Virginia in the mountainous regions has a poor white population that has many of the same problems as minorities. Marginalized, undereducated, substance abuse, economies that are dependent on one industry like coal or timber that rape the landscape and ruin the infrastructure.

I could say this article is POLITICAL and a wink and a nod to the white voters in his state that agree with the dems on economic issues, but are prejudiced.

I don't remember how many of you remember the Reagan and Bush 1 years but because the economy was so bad the GOP made a lot of political hay by convincing voters that Blacks and other minorities were the recipients of special rights and government largesse, rather than a disproportionate share of death penalties and prison sentences.

However I have read Webb say similar stuff before that sort of makes me think that he is white, older and really believes this stuff.

In the end I think it will actually help him retain his seat in his district in a time when I guarantee the GOP will revamp the tactic of race baiting. However on the other hand it really saddens me that in a time when we should have been going beyond this crap a dem politician feels the need to perpetuate it.