Eric Clapton's SAD Final Act.

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67. You did just that

and it is indefensible.

It seems as though you are upset that your fellow New Yorkers find Helm to have been a real icon and credit to the Woodstock community he embraced, while you only see him as a racist because he comes from the South--that was the very first thing you brought up, so it certainly seems to rankle you. I'm no Southerner either, but in the West, at least, we don't paint public figures for the crimes of their regions' ancestors nor do most DUers. And, yes, most Duers do not hold a single vote for a candidate, for which an individual expressed sufficient regret to try to explain in his own memoirs decades later, in a life filled with examples of honor and a creditable example on racial equality and respect.