Barbara Anderson

I have heard Mississippi tales. I thought the public killing of black men was over down there.
Now I hear the lady, Ms. Barbara Anderson, speak in court about how much she loved her brother,
who was purposefully run over by white men in a truck, in a parking lot, because they hated black
people.
Barbara Anderson was pleading for the life of one of those men, because he was to get the death
penalty for committing a hate crime.
The young man expressed regret; and Ms. Anderson's family doesn't believe in the death penalty.
I was reminded of how Shirley Sherrod behaved with so much grace when she expressed condolences to Andrew Breitbart's family.
Americans have some incredibly decent impulses. We may not have enough of these sorts of
Americans; and maybe we are generating them late in our history's game. But they are still out there.
They are still here.