Reply #2: Why do conservatives always find

[rogue emissary]

. . . lightweights to fill the jobs of great African Americans? They did the same thing when they put Clarence Thomas into Thurgood Marshall's seat. Now, they've not only replaced Mary Frances Berry with conservative Gerald Reynolds. Bush fires her specifically because she continues to fight for us.

Some Reynolds quotes, from a http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/10/national/10reynolds.html">New York Times article.

"I just assume somewhere in my life some knucklehead has looked at me and my brown self and said that they have given me less or denied me an opportunity," said the chairman, Gerald A. Reynolds, 41, an African-American lawyer. "But the bottom line is, and my wife will attest to this, I am so insensitive that I probably didn't notice."

. . . Though he took pains to say racial discrimination exists, he also said it is surmountable with fortitude and made no bones about his belief that traditional civil rights groups - which he has sharply criticized in the past - overstate the problem. He plans a more skeptical approach.

"Somebody can look at disparities in income and home ownership and conclude that it is due to discrimination, but before you can do that you have to perform an investigation because there are other factors that could explain these disparities," he said. "The disparities could be the result of discrimination or it could the result of something else that has no relation to discriminatory conduct."


What doesn't make since to me, is you have to perform investigation before you call disparity racism. Then how do you get them involved to perform the investigation in the first place, if you can't call it racism to start the investigation? :grr: