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So I took him to a white lawyer that we had -- that had...attended some of the training that we had provided, 'cause Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farmer. So I figured if I take him to one of them that his own kind would take care of him.
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Did she do her best for this guy? She could have said, well, sir, it's out of my hands. She didn't.
Last edited by Green Irish Eyes; 07-24-2010 at 08:47 AM..
So she dumped him off twice, yippee, stumbling to success would put it mildly.
I wonder, how many white folks she refused to help, and kicked to the curb, before she felt guilty enough, and generous enough to dump them off on "one of their own kind"?
Fail.
She is on record stating that this was the first white family she ever helped, and that she went on to help more white families after that.
Her dad was killed by a white neighbor you know, and that was her whole point in mentioning Spooner's farm -- to say "My father was killed by a white man and I managed to move past race issues, so we should all be able to."
Prior to meeting the Spooners, she thought only black farmers faced what the Spooner's were facing because she was ignorant of the truth and she is ADMITTING that. Good grief. You folks are trying way too hard to read into this. She didn't work for the goverment then and she is simply trying to illustrate her personal growth.
None of us grew up without some measure of racism in our lives. It's something every human struggles with at some point or another. It's silly to expect this woman to have grown up as a completely "race neutral" person, given that she was a black kid, born in the segregated deep south, whose father was murdered by a white man, and who the local sheriff tried to block from voting because she was black (and her husband was assaulted by the sheriff's dept. in connection with the voting issue).
I wonder if some of the people trying to spin these wild, paranoid yarns would have ever been able to move past race themselves, had their father been killed by a black man, and they had been told they couldn't vote because they were white?
So she dumped him off twice, yippee, stumbling to success would put it mildly.
I wonder, how many white folks she refused to help, and kicked to the curb, before she felt guilty enough, and generous enough to dump them off on "one of their own kind"?
Amazing, truly amazing. What a complete disregard for what really happened.
Awww come on, you're ruining the drama! There HAS TO BE a conspiracy in there somewhere! No? I thought that;s what teh intarnetz wuz fer!
It's like trying to teach a pig to dance. It's ineffective and pisses off the pig.
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