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jmdrake
11-01-2009, 07:55 PM
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14810455

This story is a couple of years old, but still important because A) people still obsess over race and B) a hate crimes law recently passed.

You have to listen to the story because unfortunately they don't have up a full transcript. But democratic congressman Steve Cohen claimed that black ministers who didn't support him "must be racist" because "no black person would be against a hate crimes law". (I guess it never occurred to him that conservative black preachers might be concerned about the potential of "hate speech" laws being applied to sermons about homosexuality.) But it gets even better. One of the ministers was quoted as saying that they found Cohen was "just too liberal".

Background, you should know that Harold Ford Jr., the black congressman Cohen had replaced, was actually seen as a moderate and came close to wining the senate race against Bob Corker.

http://politics.nashvillepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fordconfed.jpg

Regards,

John M. Drake