[Jeff Chandler]

I've yet to meet a conservative who obsesses about race. I've met white racists but they're so beyond conservatism it's pathetic.

So true. I've met a few racists in my time, mostly when I was a kid, but all the conservatives I know wish that black folks would come over to our side.

I'm reminded of a time when I was about 14, and my best friend Brian and I were doing landscape work for my father's sideline business. A very nice, very elderly, and very southern lady next door to where we were working invited us in for a soda break. While we were there, out of the blue, she started discussing black people and how their homes all have a funny smell. We thought her assertion was quite ironic, because we both noticed immediately upon entering her home that her house had a strong strange odor!

[cyborg]

I'm a conservative because the message is what my parents taught me growing up. America is the land of milk and honey, paved with gold,etc. but you have to work hard. Somehow race never came up because as my mom always said, trifling thoughts makes the brain addled and why think about that when you can make money?

Oh well... I DO know there will be lots of racial harmonizing over adult beverages and football in the Charles family rum shop this christmas.