Cut Him Some Slack
The Dallas Morning News' Opinion blog's James Mitchell links to a Huffington post story with a video of Mike Huckabee, former Republican candidate for President and former Baptist preacher from Arkansas, who says:
"As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say 'That's a terrible statement!' ... I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names..."Mitchell suggests that Huckabee "gets it" and asks, "When can we expect these comments in continual video loop?" The answer is not anytime soon.
Reader Ed Friedman asks, "Why is it so difficult to understand that Wright was venting anger, an anger that's so understandable?" The answer is that many of the whites who refuse to cut Wright any slack are also just venting anger, an anger that's also understandable. Re-read Obama's speech. He gets it, too.
Hmmm... Obama/Huckabee '08?
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