Can someone who is or was racist/bigoted be redeemed?

[MizMolly]

Could a guy like David Duke (who was a Klansmen, by definition a racist) be redeemed?

What would it take? When would most people consider such a guy redeemed and no longer racist (if possible)?

Or, is being a racist like being an alcoholic? Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic, just recovering? Recovering racist?

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Malcolm X supposedly changed his mind about hating whites.

 

[blastoff]

Only Democrats.


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Yes, it seems that some people have some 'splainin' to do on Mr. Byrd.

How did he get such redemption?

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Think it was when he appeared on Meet the Press with Tim Russert and proclaimed there are white ******* too.

Wow, think about how that would play today! The dimocrats would be forced to pummel his ass to shreads.

Edit: ******* = n-words.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

So, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves until his death, when all but 5 were sold.

He also wrote the Declaration of Independence, which originally contained this paragraph:

"[The King] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."

It was deleted because other colonies would not join with that included.

So, Jefferson was left with a conflict of a single principle. Keep that paragraph in, and remain under British rule, or take it out and secure independence.

Secure liberty for all white men or secure no liberty. (Keep in mind that had the colonies remained British, the slaves would have been emancipated by Britain without a single shot being fired)

What say ye?

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