I was going through some coverage of the CPAC event and found this rather interesting quote I think sums up perfectly the mindset of the people at the convention.

That quote was made by Chuck Woolery. Yes, for those of you who remember this was the man who used to host Love Connection. He is a man, still beloved by thousands of people, who feels as a white man in America not only that minorities do not need civil rights protection under the law, who feels majority rules should apply to questions about civil freedoms, but that he has been discriminated against because he is white and, by his own words, a one per center.

Mister Woolery, you have the nerve to equate not being able to get a game show host job the same as being pulled over because you aren't in the 'right' neighborhood, or being stopped by the police after leaving a showing of Fantasia, wearing a jacket with science fiction patches and being accused of being in a gang? Mister Woolery, I gave some incredibly mild examples of incidents that have happened to me, and I wouldn't dare equate those incidents as being true signs of discrimination, but those fit well with mentality of people like you when it comes to trying to compare the pain you feel and the pain many feel when faced with racism. People like you talk about the rights I have granted by the Constitution, but the Constitution didn't grant us rights. We were not counted as fully human, under the Constitution. You have people hanging out at CPAC, and this would primarily be the Ron Paul people but others fit into this mold, who feel it should be legal for a store owner to discriminate against anyone they want. Now, the people I'm talking about couch their opinion in language talking about the rights of the owner to cater to who they wish and the government shouldn't interfere. You think that's OK?

Well, I know you don't because in your statement saying we don't need civil rights you complained that you are discriminated against because you can't get a job as a game show host because you are too old. You say you are discriminated against because you are a one percenter. I think you and Governor Christie of New Jersey need to look at history just a bit. For some reason you think where things are today are only slightly different from where things were at the turn of the last century. That would be around 1900. You seem to think people were generally of good nature and appealing to their better angels would cause them to do the right thing.

Let's get out of the realm of gay marriage for a moment. Let's move out of gay rights and civil rights for a bit. Have you heard about the case Kirby v. Kirby? A man in Arizona was granted an annulment from his wife because he found out she had some Negro blood in her. That case was 1921. How about the Monk case? This occurred in 1939 in California but had ties to Arizona because the couple was married in Arizona. It was determined the woman had one eight Negro blood and thus was barred from receiving her husband's estate. It was an observation by her lawyers, since she was one eight Negro and had other nationalities in her lineage, legally she could effectively be barred from marrying anyone, unless they had the same heritage composition as her.

Those racial integrity laws were struck down in the landmark Loving v. Virginia case in 1967 by the Supreme Court. If left to the people to vote for, how long do you think it would have taken to change the law? Would we be living under that law today? You're statement was all people, and this would be blacks, gays, whites, all people have inalienable rights granted by God and the Constitution, yet up until 1967 people could be arrested and convicted of a felony in a number of states for marrying, bearing a child or in rare cases having sex with someone of another race. Do you know why a lot of cases before the Loving case were upheld by the courts? The argument was since the white and non-white offender were treated equally under the law, there was no discrimination against any race. It's similar to the flimsy argument used by some in the anti-gay marriage group, who say homosexuals are free to marry anyone they want, they just have to be of the opposite sex.

Chuck Woolery, if we had listened to the people, put the argument up for a vote, it would be highly unlikely the laws would have changed. Interestingly, the show you are most famous for, Love Connection, probably wouldn't have been on the air if those laws were in place, since your producers would have to make sure the race of the daters matched up. I'm very sorry you feel a burden from being an old white one percenter and I'm sure you will get solace from people at CPAC, but honestly, don't expect the vast majority of people to have much sympathy for you.