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Joe Piscopo will never be as highly regarded as Eddie Murphy or Belushi, and rightfully so, but his Sinatra is an all time favorite SNL character.

Funny you should single out West Virginia as not being sorry for historical wrongs done to black people. West Virginia was formed at the start of the civil ware when it seceded from Virgina and joined the Union to fight against slavery, among other things. Can't say that much for Texas...

Thanks Ken Burns.

I think if you will read your history books that West Virginia seceded from Virginia for 2 reasons: Hatred of slave owners, and hatred of slaves. It was not a fight against slavery, or there would have been very few Union soldiers and the North would have lost. It was a fight against treason and rebellion, and only later became a fight against slavery. You'll find most of the abolitionists in the North were in favor of letting the South leave (basically they said good riddance to bad trash) but few other Northerners were. So I can make fun of West Virginia any time I want to.

Sorry, observist. I actually just meant that as a crack about the huge percentage of white primary voters who told pollsters they wouldn't vote for Obama because he's black. There are lots of reasons not to vote for him, but his skin color isn't one of them.

For the record, I'm not a Texan, though I've lived here for 24 years. (Texans are extremely picky about who they award that title to.) I'm from deep Southern Illinois, which use to be coal mining country until all the northerners complained about their denuded forests from acid rain. I believe Southern Illinois is a lot like West Virginia, minus the scenery.

Comedian George Carlin once commented that Texas should change its license plate slogan to, "Let's kill all the n-----s."
I think the same slogan would be appropriate for West Virginia, and now that I think about it, most of the rest of the country.
The fact that Blow and Ragland are having this stupid conversation in 2008 is a sad commentary.
Besides, I'm not convinced Ragland is really black.

andrew, please give further comment on why you don't think that Ragland is really black? Do you mean like not having one drop of black blood or not having the black experience in order to speak on behalf of blacks.

Black historian, Carter Woodson said that if you miseducate the Negro he will go to the back door on his own. Did you make note that when Blow set the tone for race relations, that he put it in the form of a question " Do you think that the problems blacks face are self inflicted?
Almost all of the respondents who gave indication of their race as being black affirmed that they think black people are the greatest obstacles to progress in the black community? They feel that blacks are their greatest own enemies. What do you think? Anybody?

What about Obama's acceptance of W. Virginia's former KKK superdelegate vote. I don't hear you--- no speeches on how far we've come----Can you feel me?