Reply #60: "an ignorance that hampers the minds of typical Dean voters" [View All]

You said: "an ignorance that hampers the minds of typical southern voters"

I said: "an ignorance that hampers the minds of typical Dean voters"

BOTH OF THOSE COMMENTS ARE OFFENSIVE

EDWARDS: Because let me tell you the last thing we need in the South is somebody like you coming down and telling us what we need to do.

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That's the last thing in the world we need in the South.

I grew up in the South. I grew up with the very people that you're talking about. And what Al Sharpton just said is exactly right. The people that I grew up with, the vast majority of them, they don't drive around with Confederate flags on pickup trucks.

One of the problems that we have with young people today is people talk down to you. You know, you get all pigeon-holed. They've stereotype you.

Exactly the same thing happens with people from the South. I have seen it. I have grown up with it. I'm here to tell you it is wrong. It is condescending. And the only way that we as a party are going to win the White House back is to reach out to everybody and treat them with the dignity and respect that they're entitled to.

That's what we ought to be doing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64721-2003Nov4?language=printer

"an ignorance that hampers the minds of typical southern voters"

"an ignorance that hampers the minds of typical Dean voters"

Do you 'get it' now?