My respect for Huckabee continues to grow, weird but like Jimmy Carter he is a moral man and I'm not sure what America really thinks of moral people.
"Huckabee went much further. "I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack . . . I'm probably the only conservative in America who's going to say something like this, but I'm just telling you. We've got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie; you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant and you can't sit out there with everyone else; there's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office; here's where you sit on the bus.
"And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment and you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had a more, more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me."
John McCain, the assured Republican nominee resisted the attempt by FOX News's Sean Hannity to whip Wright's remarks into a pyre for Obama. McCain said coolly, "I do know Senator Obama. He does not share those views . . . I've had endorsements of some people that I didn't share their views . . . My life has been one of reconciliation. If people want to put their past behind them, to apologize, to say, 'Look, we made mistakes in the past but we want to move forward,' I respect that and embrace it. Because all of us have made serious mistakes in our lives and I am certainly one of them.""
From The black man's burden by Derrick Z. Jackson
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/25/the_black_mans_burden/
"Huckabee went much further. "I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack . . . I'm probably the only conservative in America who's going to say something like this, but I'm just telling you. We've got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie; you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant and you can't sit out there with everyone else; there's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office; here's where you sit on the bus.
"And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment and you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had a more, more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me."
John McCain, the assured Republican nominee resisted the attempt by FOX News's Sean Hannity to whip Wright's remarks into a pyre for Obama. McCain said coolly, "I do know Senator Obama. He does not share those views . . . I've had endorsements of some people that I didn't share their views . . . My life has been one of reconciliation. If people want to put their past behind them, to apologize, to say, 'Look, we made mistakes in the past but we want to move forward,' I respect that and embrace it. Because all of us have made serious mistakes in our lives and I am certainly one of them.""
From The black man's burden by Derrick Z. Jackson
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/25/the_black_mans_burden/
