Spunkywho:"Ideals" are the key word in that sentence. Not the fact that he's black. Any public official with those ideals would've gotten a short drop and a sudden stop. EDIT:Maybe not hung... They wouldn't have been elected, they certainly would've had their property destroyed, been burned in efigy, and maybe tarred and feathered.

Nice insinuation that me and mine are racist though. I wish you could go back and say that to the faces of my ancestors who fought and died in the Union army to end slavery.

Adrian