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You ofcourse mean that both sides do this today right?
j-mac
That would explain the phrase "both parties". This is just today's example of it.
What I find distressing about this whole affair is that here is a woman who we should be applauding. She is black, and did not use that as an excuse to not do what she could. She got an education(think about her age and when she as a black woman got that education...worth noting the odds where against her), and then used that education to get into political service. She then made the self-discovery that she too had her issues with racism, and worked to overcome it(almost all of us have some racism in us, but few realize it, and fewer still work to overcome it).
She then went to an organization by and for blacks, and delivers a message that could be received poorly, that blacks can be racist too, and that blacks need to overcome it. That speaks to a real personal courage. We should all be standing together saying, now, that we as a country need more people like her. Instead, she was called a racist and condemned, because some one admitted that they waned to lash out back at some one else entirely, and instead of taking 30 minutes to fact check, rushed to get the (false) story out there. That people believed the story is not a crime, it is normal. We react to the information we are given. And this woman, who has done no wrong, has her life disrupted and is condemned, all because she chose to pass along a positive message we all should appreciate, and because in our rush to win politically we forget about the people in the way.