Once more into the fray. First, having missed the point entirely,  
this now becomes a question of relative kill rates? I don't think so.

My simple point is, was and shall be, that hate is hate, promulgated  
by any group or person against another without regard for cause,  
other than being. And it is wrong and it needs to be stopped before  
it has momentum.

I don't care whether Adolf Shicklegruber espoused it, or Louis  
Farrakhan did, the end result depends upon the rest of us being able  
to stop it. Adolf was able to carry his program farther than (you  
pick the miscreant) because his organization was not stopped early  
on. After all, he was nothing more than a failed painter, putsch  
plotter and generally useless guy until he kept going and got an  
organization together. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts  
absolutely. What we discuss here today becomes tomorrow's history and  
if it shows that we can discuss our history, we are all less likely  
to be tolerant of evil in whatever guise. It's when we cannot discuss  
it without someone coming after us that we really have problems.

So please re-read my post in that light rather than whatever it is  
you have misconstrued it to be.

Thanks for your consideration.

Lyle Browning


On Jun 25, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:

> Lyle,
>
> I'm not going to take on the whole of your post, but please tell me  
> how many whites were lynched in response to Louis Farrenkat's  
> preaching, and then compare that total with the number of black  
> lynched by the KKK (or estimates, I'm not sure that there are  
> absolute numbers anywhere, but maybe there are).
>
> Let's make sure that we are comparing apples to apples, not apples  
> to grapes.
>
>
> Anne
>
> Anne Pemberton
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