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...book [on federalism] should appeal to the new breed of Democrats and liberal Republicans. I'm a liberal Republican basically. I hope that the Bush administration will be responsive...
LAST January, a similar controversy brewed at CBS Sports when commentator "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder spoke to a reporter about Blacks in professional sports. During the interview Snyder said that many a slave owner used to "breed his big Black to his big woman so that they could have a big Black kid." Here was another case of a public figure making an offensive remark that contained some truth--truth that was forgotten in the angry responses that followed...
Snyder's and Jenninger's remarks offended many people--but they spoke of ugly, abhorrent deeds that actually happened. Blacks were forced to breed by their masters, and the German attitude toward Hitler and the Jews facilitated the Holocaust. Although the truth is often unpleasant, it is too important to be revised and sensitized to the needs of everyone who happens to be within earshot...
...shrinking from these harsh truths rather than accepting them, we follow a well-worn path to the climate of unreasoning fear and intolerance that allows this dark side to breed and create such injustices as slavery and genocide. Only by accepting the truths of the past and understanding how they unfolded can we avoid repeating our greatest failures...
...cost $110 million to produce, will run for 32 hours, and could draw huge ratings. But War and Remembrance, ABC' s lumbering sequel to The Winds of War, may be the last of a dying breed...