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He ain't subversive. He's jest stoopid...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday told about 600 Michigan State University students that America's democracy was 37 years old, not 200-plus, and that "democracy as we know it did not begin in Philadelphia, where a bunch of white men wrote the laws.""Nobody's been paying attention to me for awhile. I think I'll say something really dumb..." "These men's wives were not allowed [to vote], these laws were made at a time when only white men had the right to vote," Mr. Jackson said, noting that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the commencement of "true democracy." I forget what this particular fallacy is called. It's so easy to take the standards of one time and apply them to another, to the detriment of the other. Speaking at the That's what he said about Gulf War I, too. "No blood for oil, bro!" He's boring. Let's move on to something else... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-09-16 |
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