And the image, just for emphasis:

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Ha, funny. I hadn't seen this whole continuing thread until now; been wacky busy otherwise. I don't think I need to add anything to Todd's posts.

Have a great day, Bubba et al.

Dang, Ed. When I read Richard's name, I knew I should have known him. Clearly, this got through factcheck and shouldn't have; Tyler just showed me the article from archives, and the paper name isn't clear on it. He assumed it was the Ledger and should not have. We will correct in this issue. We salute everything Mr. Minor, Hart, you and others did with the Capitol Reporter. We know how hard it must have been then.

The right is continually working toward being politically correct! It's just a different kind. Don't be foolish.

And Bubba, you silly bou, you're arguing that you "proved" me wrong with this:

"Did a quick check of the top selling AR makers,"

I assume you mean a quick Bubba-Google. Bubba, I may have been wrong in the past, as have we all, but you have never proved it.

Not true, Bubba. Congress and even gun makers refer to semi-autos as "assault weapons." What do you think the "assault weapons ban" was about??

I apologize if I missed you up with Bubba and the usual apologists re Zimmerman guilt, JS. Beyond that, my response to your comment totally stands. The statement that confused/amused you makes total sense as stated (even if I'm against using "minorities" as a noun). People not considered fully "white" have often committed atrocities against "minorities." Thinking that makes no sense doesn't make sense.

And many a lynch mob contained "white" people with Native American or even black "blood" -- so they didn't actually lynch someone because he was black? Or they're weren't racist?

See how quickly your argument crumbles?

So? Even black people have participated in subjugation of other blacks due to buy-in of attitudes of white majority culture (used to be called Uncle Toms). Zimmerman is just as white as President Obama is black (or white). He's part Peruvian. Chances are that Trayvon had white blood in him as well.

What you choose to miss is that the above statement is about the victims and the attitudes about them that lead to violence and attitudes that they deserved the treatment. You keep shifting the focus away from the victim and toward the "hero" who dared to stalk and shoot an unarmed black kid. You're not helping your own argument, but you seem too mired inside it to think critically about it. And you show little to no knowledge of America's race history for context. You've shown yourself to be the last person a thinking person would take seriously on these issues. Or one of them. White Zimmerman supporters have defiantly come out of the woodwork of late. Interesting company you keep.

notmuch, the parties switched because national Democrats started supporting civil rights legislation and turned on Jim Crow laws. Finally. The tragedy is that Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and, yes, young Harley Barbour saw it as a chance to lure former Dixiecrats into the GOP.

Thus, the GOP's current identity crisis over selling its soul to the devil. The racist devil still wants its due, and more educated, progressive Republicans are facing a party crisis. The irony is that Reagan, who was downright liberal by today's GOP standards, helped make it happen to get easy votes.

Otherwise, your comments about dependency are sorely ignorant, but the exact meme that the New Dixiecrat Party has pushed since the switch. You're drinking the Koolaid. Go figure. That was the goal. The whole point was to get southern whites to blame black people for today's problems and, thus, join the Republican Party, and to raise their kids to believe the same thing. Fortunately, fewer young people, even here, are buying the lies.

I recently had the honor of teaching Ms. Dorsey in my writing classes with one of her daughters. Her spirit and energy filled the room. She will be missed by so many. What a hero.