Reply #5: I'll tell you about who was for RFK. [View All]

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

My dad was a RFK fan..a big fan. He was one of these young urban bluecollar ethnic types.
He was a racist and didnt like the blacks or the "spics" who wanted to move into the neighborhood...he ended up supporting Wallace in '68.

My partners mother was a RFK fan. She was a California Mexcian....she had moved up from El Paso, was a picker, did some manual labor, saw RFK during that ill fated campaign trip throuugh Calfornia.

So, RFK was a politician who was able to unite these divergent interests..the people who the GOP & the racists wanted set against each other.

Man, imagine what this country would have been like if RFK was able to build such a coalition?! And win with it?

If there ever was a tragic road not taken in recent US history that was it.