but if you do, you run the risk of being accurately portrayed as a racist and a bigot yourself.

-”America has done more than any nation, ever, to rid itself of racism.” Are you familiar with the recent history of South Africa? You do realize that the former home of apartheid elected a black man president before we did, right?

Is that all it takes? If so, Dan's evidence to prove Jimmie wrong also proves Mr. Holder wrong. If there's more to ending racism than electing a black president, then this evidence is insufficient. Personally, I can't claim Jimmie is right on this point, but I can't say he's wrong, either; it seems to be a matter of opinion.

-”We have an entire month dedicated to the history of Black Americans.” Yes we do, and every Black American will tell you that this more than makes up for hundreds of years of slavery and a hundred more years of systematized segregation and discrimination. Just ask one! And then quickly duck, because you’re liable to get punched in the face.

Again, I think this has drifted away from Jimmie's point–maybe it sounds like he said we've already reached the finish line, in terms of dealing with racism, and this is as good as it needs to get? To me, his rant boils down to, "if talk were the solution, we would already be finished. So Mr. Holder's comment does not serve to 'wake America up' to an unrecognized problem, it just insults the people who were already working on it." Insofar as the quote above responds to that point, it seems to be in agreement.

Let's see, other points–I think Jimmie uses phrases like "a good chunk" precisely so he _doesn't_ have to quantify it. His point may be weakly made, but it isn't actually _false_…

”We put the very existence of the country at risk to end slavery.” I'm on Dan's side here–can't tell what Jimmie was driving at. As far as I can tell, the people who put the nation at risk did so to _maintain_ slavery… Maybe–and I'm just guessing here–he meant Americans collectively decided that slavery was too important an issue to compromise on?

As for Jimmie's precognition (clairvoyance is a different thing), I can't say I've been able to detect any particular talent he may have in that area, so again I have to side with Dan. Maybe Jimmie thinks there will never again be racism on as grand a scale, so no other nation will have the opportunity to combat it? I certainly hope so, but people being what they are, I wouldn't assert that it can never happen….

I'm not going to address Dan's final response (to ”We are not cowards…"), other than to say he seems to be countering Jimmie's rant with his own; I can't tell that it rises to the level of argument. That's not a condemnation, Jimmie's rants often don't top that bar, and I still find them entertaining…. I just can't respond on the same level.

Eric Holder is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.

George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

Many people know what Bush did.

And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.

Bush was absolute evil.

Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

Bush is a psychological prisoner.

Bush has a lot to worry about.

Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang

B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996

Messiah College, Grantham, PA

Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG

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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.