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However, Altes said he is not a racist."

I have friends of every color and creed," he said. 

Would they be your friends if they knew that's how you felt? Or do you mean "I have people I do business with of every color and creed"?

This reminds me of those children that rolled in the mud and "reenacted" the penultimate Jena 6 confrontation.

Headline is wrong, though. He compared immigrants (read: Mexicans) to "Blacks".

State Sen. Under Fire For Racial E-Mail
Altes Compared Whites To Blacks After Revolutionary War
POSTED: 7:38 am MST November 29, 2007
UPDATED: 8:14 am MST November 29, 2007

FORT SMITH, Ark. -- An e-mail written by an Arkansas lawmaker is raising eyebrows, causing some to call state Sen. Denny Altes a racist, Ft. Smith television station KHBS reported.

In an e-mail to former Fort Smith Mayor Bill Vines, Altes wrote that he is in favor of deporting illegal immigrants, comparing current immigration issues to issues the Founding Fathers had with black people.

However, Altes is standing by his remarks, saying this argument is historical, not racial.

In the e-mail, Altes wrote: "I am for sending the illegals back, but we know that is impossible."He later wrote: "Sure, we are being overrun, but we are being out-populated by the blacks also."

Altes also wrote that, "We are where we were with the black folks after the Revolutionary War."