re: When/How do we start punishing parents for disasterous parenting?

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Of course most blacks would be voting GOP if that happened

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First off, you're talking to a GOP-voting black right now

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the society was still polite - albeit segregated. I don't recall any hostility in all my years growing up. We didn't associate, sure, but there was no hostility.

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Passive hostility is still hostility.

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I don't recall any racial violence in either direction.

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My relatives who are old enough to be your peers recall things slightly differently. Different perspectives.

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Just because it took me about 18 months to recognize the moral repugnance of state-enforced segregation, doesn't mean that I reject every single moral precept that I absorbed as I was growing up.

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I have nothing for respect for you for doing so. I say that without reservation. Much respect to you on that point, sir

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Overall, society was a better place back then, and if I could have a do-over on the whole civil-rights movement, I would take it in an instant - hoping to get it right the next time.

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I disagree that society was a better place overall (being married to my spouse would have been social suicide in that time period, and I cannot fathom life without that blue-eyed beauty by my side), but hindsight being 20/20, I would love to have a do-over and "perfect" go at the Civil Rights Movement.

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abortion kills a living human being (and is therefore morally wrong,)

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COMPLETELY agree

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all you youngsters would have grown up advocating for the overturn of the society you were born into because you are all so much wiser and smarter and more compassionate than we were.

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Wasn't trying to imply this at all. Honestly I would have probably just tried to make the best of the hand I was dealt.

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the black community

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For the record, there is no such thing.

Again, I have nothing but respect for you, sir