Well it looks like friedpie didn't do his homework assignment.
Let's analyze what was implied.
"Where you are born has nothing to do with whether or not you are racist. Missouri is not the south, either. It's the mid-west."
First - You are the product of your environment. Where you are raised influences who you are and what you do
for the rest of your life, whether you reccognize it, or admit it, or not.
Over half of everything you will ever learn in your entire lifetime you have learned and been ingrained with,
by the time you are 5 years old. That is a fact whether it's in Brooklyn, Iraq, or Cape Girardeau.
Second - Cape Girardeau was one of the ports on the Mississippi river, a slave trading route prior to the civil war.
It is located just 130 miles downstream from Saint Louis, the home of the famous
Dred Scott Decission
Accross the river from St. Louis is East Saint Louis, which strangely is a predominately black community, but was at one time
a very active area for
Organized Crime and Klan Activity
Saint Louis itself is the stereotypical city for White Flight - where the returning vetrans of World War II fled to the suburbs in
order to escape the trend of minorities moving into their inner city neighborhoods, which is too bad, as St. Louis has a rich
culture and collection of beautiful historical buildings which have fallen into decay as political rivals divided up the terrotory and
played games of power against one another in order to force thier attitudes on those who disagreed with thier philosophy.
Saint Louis does, by the way, have a predominant black population, somewhere near 55%, that are mostly very polite and
courteous, moreso than the general white population, except for the 'Punk Kids' of both races who act as immature kids do,
not respecting one another or others properties, feeling that somehow evetything is owed to them because '. . . ' whatever.
Again - Products of their environment. Parents who preach racism raise racists, no matter what color or creed.
Let's see who else comes from around that area of the country that has simular philosophies that are public knowledge:
Just about 70 miles to the west of the St. Louis area, approximately the same distance from Cape Girardeau we find
the homes of both Ken Lay and John Ashcroft, sons of evangelistic preachers, who as we know are just wonderful leaders
of generous Ethecical Companies, Enron for one, and the Justice Department for the other. Do you ever see any possible
'Racist' actions coming from either of these close associates of the Bush family ? Kenny Boy seems clean on that,
he just steals millions from his employees, be they of any race, thats not racist - just self serving.
Ashcroft ?
Well, what do you think?,
He always helps Minority Judges
Now let's get back to Rush Limbaugh - The Great White Hope.
Here's a man who used his 'Sytle of Influence' to distort his political view and make all of those insecure White Males
follow everything he says as if it was the truth, as you know he says 'I'm Always Right' - he means that he is an arrogant and
pompous man, who seems to be taking the position of 'Joe StreetGuy' which makes those who make under $ 100,000 a year
champion his rhetoric, even though he wouldn't be caught dead associating with that element of the dregs of society -
he himself makes nearly $ 55 Million shilling his point of view and pandering to those who pay him off.
Is Limbaugh Racist? - or does he just play one on TV ?