Yeah, Sawz...

You'd kinda have to live in that culture to understand what Byrd was sayin'... I never said that he fully changed... There's only so much cahnge you can expect outta people who come from ignorant backgrounds... I know lotta white folks who, like Robert Byrd, have changed their hearts but there is still alot of ignorance in them in regards to the "n-word"... Yeah, I know they think they sound fully enlightened but that level is somethin' that they will never reach...

It makes me sick to hear white folks who think "nigger" refers to anyone who is "lazy and worthless", white of black... It shows a lack of historical perspective but that's about as far as some folks have come... Does that mean that they haven't changed??? No, it doesn't... It just means that they have changed about as much as they can... Ya' gotta remember that the culture in which one is brought up is difficult to shake completely... Byrd has done about as much as anyone I can think of having come thru what he has come thru...

I mean, one does not go about changing an entire culture in one generation... Think about "gay rights" or the "Green Movement"... Ain't no light switch...

B~