[2banana]

Dear Editor:

Sometimes I wonder about the white man too.

I wonder about the 500,000 mostly white men of the Union Army who perished in the Civil War. I wonder if their deeds and heroism will be forgotten in the freeing of the black man.

I also wonder about the white men in the white churches of the North and South who started and grew the abolitionist movement into a nationwide crusade. I wonder if their works will ever be remembered in any text book.

But mostly I wonder about American journalists who want to divide the American people along racial or ethnic lines for their own twisted purposes and the newspapers who continue to publish their perverse views.

Regards,

2banana

[jazusamo]

Well said.

[Restorer]

The gentlemen and ladies convicted of violating what were later recognized to be unjust laws should receive a blanket pardon.

Pardon isn't exactly the right word, as it implies receipt of forgiveness for committing a wrong, which they did not do.

In any case, the conviction should be removed from their record, along with a written apology that we ever had such evil laws.

(Apology to those actually injured by the law, not to all those who happen to share superficial characteristics such as skin color or other markings of ethnicity.)

[chit*chat]

Yawn. Let the dead rest.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Maybe my memory is faulty, but I read somewhere that the white man, was willing to stand and told the bus driver that he had no problems doing so. It was the busdriver who insisted Rosa Parks had to stand.

If so, I don't think the man in question deserves the scorn Pitts (who's usually better than this) is pouring on him.

[Neoliberalnot]

Amazing how sitting in a different seat on a bus can make you a national hero. Such brilliance, accomplishment and lifetime of effort is unparalleled.

[TexasCajun]

Poor Poor Leonard!

It must really suck to look into the mirror every day and hate who you see!

[Sonny M]

I remember reading back in high school and college, that Rosa Park did NOT want a pardon, on the grounds that it implied she was being forgiven for something that feels she was not wrong in doing.

This issue itself should have been over with a long time ago.

This idea of issueing pardons, without consideration of the persons wishes smacks of condesention.

Reminds me of the hypocracy of that pork project that they wanted to name after Reagan in california.

[Nonstatist]

Rather, what you see in that picture is a woman who is at peace, having finally taken a momentous step

Not to deny her her place in the sun, but she had the full, previously coordinated backing of the NAACP and a panoply of activists, etc. This was premeditated defiance, just to set the record straight.