[lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks"

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Wed Apr 27 08:20:41 PDT 2005


On Apr 27, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> John A:
>>> Basically it's another spin on the white-trash/n-word formula, which
>>> has been playing  in this country for a long time.
>>
>> This was the Fulbright formula--his cultured disdain for all the poor
>> covered for his racism.
>
> Interesting critique. Anyone who speaks unfavorably about the
> underclass
> must be a bad character, a bigot a racist or worse.

This is representative of the rest of your silly straw man argument. Fulbright was a conventional conservative southern Democrat on domestic issues--anti-labor, anti-civil rights, anti-social programs. That's the blood money with which he bought his liberal foreign policy.

Give me LBJ any day of the week,

John A



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