Bad for whom, Governor?

Depending on where you stand or sit, the Civil Rights era was how bad, on a scale of 1-10?  Well, the governor of Mississippi - Haley Barbour - told the Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson, this week that he couldn't "remember it as being that bad." Guess not, if you're a white male and raised with a sense of superiority.

In fact, Barbour says when he went to hear Dr. Martin Luther King in 1962, he and his friends spent more time watching girls because they really couldn't hear what Dr. King was saying.  Wonder why he even bothered to go?  The governor certainly didn't explain what prompted so many "black and white" people to show up to hear Dr. King.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour

Interestingly, Governor Barbour's comments echo what several surveys out of the University of Michigan reveal - White people tend to have a different perception than Black people about racial progress.  Given the governor's memory of what it was like growing up during a pivotal period in Mississippi, it's probably just as likely that his top down view regarding racial inequality... is unlikely to change should he become the GOP candidate for President in 2012.