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1.21.03 @ 12:01AM

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Your country enslaved African Americans for hundreds of years. Your country also created an apartheid system for these unlucky people until only 35 years ago and you have the gall to disrespect the pain of a people living in a country that defiled their humanity by enslaving them and then instituting inhuman, apartheid laws against them under Jim Crow.

I am only 35 years old. That means I was born exactly when your majority people freed their former slaves from the Jim Crow apartheid system. You expect them to wipe from their collective memory crimes that are still so fresh?

Shame on your arrogance and your stupidity and blindness and lack of charity. I don't expect African Americans to forgive you the massive crimes you committed against their ancestors if you are so vile as to continue insulting their pain and collective memory.

Your President, the idiot Bush, the man who himself benefited from the affirmative action your system has kept in place for stupid, rich white males, just a few days ago opened a fresh wound on the scarred, shell-shocked memory of the African American community by attacking affirmative action as a "quota based" system. With people like yourselves and your president attacking every step African Americans take to regain their humanity, no wonder so many young people in that community wish to commit unspeakable acts of violence their former slave masters. Your writers attacks on African American culture is no different than the lynchings committed by former slavers.

Your horrible website has no shame or memory.
-- Horrified reader.

NEVER TOO LATE
Re: Paul Beston's Life and Death on 'The Late Show':

What gorgeous writing by Paul Beston. This is a TV critic who gets it -- TV's rare moments are worth celebrating.
-- unsigned

TO SELL AND BACK
Re: The Washington Prowler's Looking for Mr. Bigmouth:

Most of us got word by now about the Democratic National Committee's plan to blow a half million hard schmoozed bucks toward developing a liberal bent host to balance out the Rush's and Hannity's of talk radio.

As Buddy Holly sang: "It's So Easy." Not!

See -- the left got their undies in a wad because (apparently) -- their pals Dan-Peter-PBS just aren't getting the message out. And that might have a ring of truth. If so -- it shouldn't be long before they start shelling out even more bucks for development of a DNC-controlled newspaper chain. I mean -- if their broadcast buds have been missing a few free throws -- then it figures that starters on the ink side haven't been hitting enough left of the key jumpers either. And we know how Spike and Hillary hate them clankers.

Truth be known -- the reality of unfiltered info to The Great Unwashed just doesn't sit well with Terry & The Pirates.

So far, there's been chatter of trying Mario Cuomo again, but frankly he's just too dull. And Tom Daschle? Too pasty. Of course, there's always Patty Murray -- but she's been a little busy these days trying to get Osama on the phone.

Actually, what the Dems need is someone who can not only deliver 'da message, but do it with ... CHA-RIS-MA!

I'm thinkin', forget the Cuomos, Daschles and the rest. What they need is someone who can grab an audience, present the product and then go for the gizzard! And to that end, I propose ... RON POPIEL.

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