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Why Selma Is So Relevant Today
In 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot while taking refuge from violent state troopers in a restaurant in Selma, Alabama. His death ignited a 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, which galvanized the passing of the Voting Rights Act. As we reach the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when demonstrators attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge faced tear gas and clubs in the fight for true voting rights, the conversation about racial equality is as salient as ever.
Racist ignorance is far from gone - especially in the South.
Obama is beginning to look like one of those people who runs out and jumps in front of the parade, and then turns it into the gutter.Golly gee, why do I sense so much hostility from my NaziCon friends on the right?
Why Selma Is So Relevant Today
In 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot while taking refuge from violent state troopers in a restaurant in Selma, Alabama. His death ignited a 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, which galvanized the passing of the Voting Rights Act. As we reach the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when demonstrators attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge faced tear gas and clubs in the fight for true voting rights, the conversation about racial equality is as salient as ever.
Racist ignorance is far from gone - especially in the South.
One can be all for racial equality and racial justice without accepting your laughable proposition that the situation in which we live is anything akin to the rampant kind of hideous racist attitudes of 50 years ago.
Your racist ignorance is on full display, Dorkhota.
Nonsense, most of the south has voted Republican for more than thirty years.
Nonsense, most of the south has voted Republican for more than thirty years.
Either you're ignorant or you're a flat out liar. I'm curious, which is it?
Every southern state legislature remained firmly in Democratic hands until the Republican wave of 1994 and even then only a couple flipped for the first time. Democrats remained in the control of most of the south until the 2008 elections. Only in the past few years have all the southern legislatures gained Republican majorities and there have still been very few Republican governors in the south. This is the first time it's ever happened where the south has had a majority of Republican governors. Furthermore, the south didn't become a political lock for the GOP in presidential elections until 2000. Almost every southern state voted for Carter. While they all did go for Reagan, so did the rest of the country. Half of the southern states voted for Clinton. It wasn't until Gore ran that Republicans dominated the south in presidential elections.
Obama and Bush are attending
Where are the Republican leaders?
Well other than not being the party that fought tooth and nail against the struggle for equality,you might have something,but you don't.just more drumming up usless BS.
Republican where there when it happened when it was needed,now the Dems rush to try and take credit for other accomplishments,typical.
The Republicans of the civil rights era are now called RINOs and the Republican Party of that era doesn't resemble today's Republican Party. It's not even close.
They are the same party today as back then.
They were against LBJ's welfare program then and same as now, knowing full well how it would impact families and marriages.
Not true! As someone who used to vote more Republican than Democrat - I can assure you they aren't the same parties. Democrats evolved, Republicans devolved.
I would argue that moving to positions that treat minorities as perennial, hapless victims incapable of taking care of themselves is not evolving...
What is wrong with expecting just as much from minorities as anyone else? Why do you lefties insist that minorities always require the kid glove treatment?
How do you explain Ben Carson?
The Republicans of the civil rights era are now called RINOs and the Republican Party of that era doesn't resemble today's Republican Party. It's not even close.
They are the same party today as back then.
They were against LBJ's welfare program then and same as now, knowing full well how it would impact families and marriages.
Not true! As someone who used to vote more Republican than Democrat - I can assure you they aren't the same parties. Democrats evolved, Republicans devolved.
I would argue that moving to positions that treat minorities as perennial, hapless victims incapable of taking care of themselves is not evolving...
What is wrong with expecting just as much from minorities as anyone else? Why do you lefties insist that minorities always require the kid glove treatment?
How do you explain Ben Carson?
so you only like black people if they are libs? Ben Carson has accomplished more in his life than Obama would in 20 lives.
The Republicans of the civil rights era are now called RINOs and the Republican Party of that era doesn't resemble today's Republican Party. It's not even close.
They are the same party today as back then.
They were against LBJ's welfare program then and same as now, knowing full well how it would impact families and marriages.
Not true! As someone who used to vote more Republican than Democrat - I can assure you they aren't the same parties. Democrats evolved, Republicans devolved.
I would argue that moving to positions that treat minorities as perennial, hapless victims incapable of taking care of themselves is not evolving...
What is wrong with expecting just as much from minorities as anyone else? Why do you lefties insist that minorities always require the kid glove treatment?
How do you explain Ben Carson?
so you only like black people if they are libs? Ben Carson has accomplished more in his life than Obama would in 20 lives.
How the South Became Republican: It’s About Race
The South has now shifted from being the conservative Democratic stronghold to a Republican base and southern politicians bring the baggage of excessively conservative social and greedy irresponsible economic policies into the Republican fold. Interestingly, it was the Republican Abraham Lincoln’s presidential elections in 1860 and 1864 and the Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s election to the White House a century later in 1964 that rallied the Southern politicians to enforce their conservative and segregationist stronghold. Race has always been at the core of Southern politics and the South has always closed ranks against any efforts for equality. This, in spite of the fact that it was a "white" Democratic southern politician, Lyndon Johnson, who passed the most important civil rights legislation in the country’s history.
The following are excerpts of the Monday, December 6, 2004 interview with "white" southern writer and dissenter John Egerton. A recent contributor to the book Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent (2004), Egerton was winner of the Lillian Smith Award in 1984 for Generations: An American Family. Other books include The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America and Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
More: How the South Became Republican: It's About Race - CounterPunch
There is no doubt that the South flip-flopped and is now a Republican stronghold.
It's funny that you can't prove that it was. It should be easy since we'd have a record of Democrats becoming Republicans. Some did but there was no migration shift, the Republicans were much more business friendly (like now) and the Republican party grew as the Democrats shrank.It's funny to watch people pretend that the fundamental political realignment of southern states had nothing to do with the Civil Rights Act.
How the South Became Republican: It’s About Race
The South has now shifted from being the conservative Democratic stronghold to a Republican base and southern politicians bring the baggage of excessively conservative social and greedy irresponsible economic policies into the Republican fold. Interestingly, it was the Republican Abraham Lincoln’s presidential elections in 1860 and 1864 and the Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s election to the White House a century later in 1964 that rallied the Southern politicians to enforce their conservative and segregationist stronghold. Race has always been at the core of Southern politics and the South has always closed ranks against any efforts for equality. This, in spite of the fact that it was a "white" Democratic southern politician, Lyndon Johnson, who passed the most important civil rights legislation in the country’s history.
The following are excerpts of the Monday, December 6, 2004 interview with "white" southern writer and dissenter John Egerton. A recent contributor to the book Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent (2004), Egerton was winner of the Lillian Smith Award in 1984 for Generations: An American Family. Other books include The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America and Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
More: How the South Became Republican: It's About Race - CounterPunch
There is no doubt that the South flip-flopped and is now a Republican stronghold.
why don't you move to Russia; one part rule there. You'd love it, commie.
How the South Became Republican: It’s About Race
The South has now shifted from being the conservative Democratic stronghold to a Republican base and southern politicians bring the baggage of excessively conservative social and greedy irresponsible economic policies into the Republican fold. Interestingly, it was the Republican Abraham Lincoln’s presidential elections in 1860 and 1864 and the Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s election to the White House a century later in 1964 that rallied the Southern politicians to enforce their conservative and segregationist stronghold. Race has always been at the core of Southern politics and the South has always closed ranks against any efforts for equality. This, in spite of the fact that it was a "white" Democratic southern politician, Lyndon Johnson, who passed the most important civil rights legislation in the country’s history.
The following are excerpts of the Monday, December 6, 2004 interview with "white" southern writer and dissenter John Egerton. A recent contributor to the book Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent (2004), Egerton was winner of the Lillian Smith Award in 1984 for Generations: An American Family. Other books include The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America and Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
More: How the South Became Republican: It's About Race - CounterPunch
There is no doubt that the South flip-flopped and is now a Republican stronghold.
why don't you move to Russia; one part rule there. You'd love it, commie.
No thanks. My people were here first.
It's funny to watch people pretend that the fundamental political realignment of southern states had nothing to do with the Civil Rights Act.
So in other words: Southern states have been voting progressively Republican for more than thirty years.
I wonder where all the dixiecrats went?
I only take credit for the lousy posts. But I did not read it anywhere if that is what you are asking.Obama is beginning to look like one of those people who runs out and jumps in front of the parade, and then turns it into the gutter.Golly gee, why do I sense so much hostility from my NaziCon friends on the right?
Did you just coin that little jewel all by yourself? I'm going to have to write that one down for later, that's a real keeper.
It's funny that you can't prove that it was. It should be easy since we'd have a record of Democrats becoming Republicans. Some did but there was no migration shift, the Republicans were much more business friendly (like now) and the Republican party grew as the Democrats shrank.It's funny to watch people pretend that the fundamental political realignment of southern states had nothing to do with the Civil Rights Act.
So in other words: Southern states have been voting progressively Republican for more than thirty years.
Sure, but that's not what you said now, was it?
I wonder where all the dixiecrats went?
They died.
