No no no, Carter wasn't restricting his comments just to a few people holding signs he took as racist. That doesn't even make sense...what's the point in saying or implying that "the overwhelming portion of the intentional animosity displayed by the people holding racist signs is motivated by racism"?!
No, the press and the pundits on both sides and the administration too took that quote and a few other things he said at the time to refer to the whole demonstration and the movement associated with it. Carter made a gross generalization about a million people, and, by implication, many millions more like myself who were there in sympathy, based on his own preconceptions...that's called bigotry. And so plenty of educated, well-meaning people, some of them posting on this very thread, followed his lead and made accusations referring to the whole mass of demonstrators, not to a few particular ones.
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@ everyone else: OMG . . . !!!!!
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Kali Rivers (Fearless Blue)
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I wonder what the Grand Dragon of the KKK would make of all this?
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...and Jo Jo shines some light on the subject.