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>>>Or perhaps the crime is to suggest that a dark fellow on a Republican podium is just a cynical symbol? MB wouldn't be the only one to believe that.
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>>That comment is not going to make Alan Keyes very happy :o)
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>Or Thomas Sowell, Michael Steele, Ward Connerly, J.C. Watts, Colin Powell, Conde Rice, Allen West, Samuel B. Fuller - and, of course - Frederick Douglas <g>

Slow down. What I said is that this guy is an unknown who a miniscule percentage of us recognized, and what the heck is he doing in a Presidential debate? That was it. Maybe I should not have described him as the black guy. That was only descriptive, not pejorative. I could throw any number of names back at you, many of them musicians, but that would be racist, wouldn't it?

You know I have no control --

Billie Holiday
Charlie Parker
Lester Young
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Willie Dixon

And that's just off the top and limited to musicians. I find what you said offensive.