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Huckabee defends Obama’s pastor
Posted By katie allison granju
Huckabee surprises many with an expression of empathy for someone at the polar opposite of the political spectrum:
“I grew up in a very conservative south, and I think that you have to cut some slack, and I think I’m probably the only conservative in America who is going to say something like this, but I’m just telling you, we’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie you have to go in the backdoor when you go the restaurant,” he continued.
“Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and have resentment, and you just have to say, I probably would too.”
And while Tennessee blogger Ned Williams appreciates Huckabee’s position on Rev. Wright, he’s not sure he agrees completely:
I completely agree in one sense, but I think it is a form of “soft bigotry” to leave such expressions or movements or systems of belief unexamined or uncritiqued. And there’s an ugly point at which resentment is fostered, nursed, exploited. But Huckabee demonstrates again his exceptional empathy.
Mar 21st, 2008
Whatever nonsense is flying around or people getting their sensitivites bruised, thank God that race is being talked about openly. Lets just hope it continues consructively