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Originally Posted by peragro
It will be interesting to watch the reaction of all of these to far more serious and undeniably racist remarks by an icon of the civil rights establishment, Andrew Young.
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Originally Posted by dculkin
That probably is evidence of a double standard, but we don't know what the media would do with the Andrew Young story were he running for U.S. Senate just 2-1/2 months from election day. I am not going to lose sleep if the media overlooks the occasional African American leader who makes a statement like Young's. To me, having a white member of the white establishment (not many non-whites in the Senate) reveal possible bias against minorities while speaking to a rural Virginia crowd is worse than what Young said. Given the history of race relations in Virginia, a double standard by the media is justified (within reason).
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What he said.
Young is not testing the waters for a presidential bid. Allen is (was).
Young's remarks were assinine. I've been in plenty of neighborhoods that have the kind of small markets he speaks of. In Oakland and vicinity, a lot of them are indeed operated by Arabs. Many of the rougher black neighborhoods are not well served by the big supermarkets. For a person w/o a car, the small markets are a blessing. Young's remarks about stale bread, meat, etc. were off base. Those small markets are not making anyone rich in a hurry. They have to sell their stuff. If it's that bad, people can always catch a cab to WalMart.
