10-22-2011, 04:17 PM
I was actually there at the Kennedy-Catholic debate. Well I wasn't present but I was alive sentient and didn't need anyone to later explain it to me. In fact my paternal grandmother (an otherwise great person) felt free to hate Catholics, Negros, Jews and about anyone else who didn't resemble her -- a Canadian by birth.
She could never get herself to vote for a Catholic and didn't during that election. We had some great debates, that I was 16 didn't interrupt the flow of the bigoted debate.
Some years later I was to present myself as a candidate for state office as a Democrat, she broke ranks and voted for me. First and last time in her life she didn't vote Republican. To my good fortune I lost that race else I might be one of those being marched against today.
She could never get herself to vote for a Catholic and didn't during that election. We had some great debates, that I was 16 didn't interrupt the flow of the bigoted debate.
Some years later I was to present myself as a candidate for state office as a Democrat, she broke ranks and voted for me. First and last time in her life she didn't vote Republican. To my good fortune I lost that race else I might be one of those being marched against today.