Who have to live with this shit everyday. I became an apologist for a racist for a minute and that feels very bad to me. It is not who I am

That means a lot

We are all learning.

That means a lot coming from you

"I hesitated today to condemn obviously racist white male pale and stale bollocks, because democrat. That was just crap."

I admit I hesitated a bit myself, though I didn't do any posting. And I, too, was touched by some of the discussions here on DU.

I think the debacle with Al Franken has a lot of Democrats a bit cowed about calling out bad behavior. That's not an excuse, just an observation. I know that's what entered my mind early in this particular scandal, and I immediately went to "let's have an investigation. I mean he was young. Maybe he's changed." That kind of crap.

I thought about positions I held when I was young, and am now embarrassed by. In my young, Catholic days I was...ahem...against abortion rights. Ugh. But then I realized that I never had my picture taken carrying a sign with pictures of dead fetuses, and if I had, and I were running for office, I would have brought it out early and explained my change and growth since then, and I would have brought out receipts from my donations to Planned Parenthood over the last three decades.

Northam has tried to hide his behavior, has tried to deny it, and has basically insulted everyone's intelligence the whole way. I don't trust that he isn't still a bigoted racist jerk. He needs to go.

Many people flooded to this site here to announce their "forgiveness" for Northam, but it is not our (white people's) place to forgive when we were not the ones hurt most. I hope more readers will follow your example and realize that being a Democrat does not grant any particular person moral authority or superiority.