While conservative talker Matt Gaunt’s self-reflective journey diving into his own racism is a very interesting and enlightening story, and I respect him for expanding his consciousness as he describes, he hasn’t grown nearly as much as he thinks.

Dear, dear Mr. Gaunt. It is not all liberals making racist remarks in the presidential campaign as the tone of your entire post implies. It is some people who claim to be a liberal. In fact, in recent days, it’s been one person who is a lifelong Democrat.

Just as Mr. Gaunt claims to recognize that he felt some sort of superiority complex to black folks, and was subsequently “ashamed” and “tried to continually purge that part of myself” … he fails to recognize that his stereotyping of black people is akin to his stereotyping of “liberals”.

We liberals aren’t cartoon characters, Mr. Gaunt, no matter how much you may subconsciously think it so. We do not act or behave en masse, any more than the past racist statements of David Duke, Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly indicate all conservatives are racist blowhards nor the bigoted tones of Bill Cunningham, Debbie Schlussel, or even Mr. Gaunt’s fellow Ill Reviewer Dan Zanoza imply that all conservatives are xenophobic ranters.

…Then again, there are in fact many, many more examples of each of those conservative “types” so perhaps there is a pattern there, eh?