ratbastid

I agree that was extremely wacky. I disagree that it taints everything about him.

I object to a man's entire career--a career in which it's widely agreed by those who actually know that he's been a powerful force for good in his community--being judged on a total of 10 seconds of video. I find it very sad that the good the man has done will be interred with his sound byte. I understand that YOU'RE willing to write him off on the basis of a single statement or opinion, but I'm not, and I believe that doing that is tragically short-sighted, black-and-white thinking.

Look, I'm sure I could search back through all the hundreds of posts you've posted, and find some combination of words you typed once that make you sound like a jackass. And I don't mean that personally; it's probably true for any one of us who posts regularly. So then I could put that quote in my sig, start threads about it, put it on billboards, make YouTube videos about it, put it in a full-page ad in USA Today, etc. And anyone who doesn't have some history with you would know you based on my cherry-picked quote from you and would therefore form certain conclusions about you. Would you call that fair? Or would you call that a personal smear campaign? And the people who know "know" about you--would you call them well-informed?

Here's my other question: Aren't you at ALL interested in why he might think that? Or is "he hates people my color" a sufficient explanation for you?