the sun done set on that un.
Agreed, but that doesn't make it less asinine. I don't agree with the right on a great many things, but their view that the left is filled with a bunch of pansy ass snowflake pussies is absolutely true.
It goes back to Goldwater's "conscience of a conservative." The problem was race. The Founders had a central belief that when facts were fully vetting, reasonable people would agree on a reasonable consensus. (There's a great recording by George Thurogood from a Detroit show "one bourbon, one scotch and one beer" where he's discussing the virtues of drunkenness, and he says to the crowd, "you look like reasonable people to me..." LOL)
And frankly nothing would make the Bible thumpers look more foolish that really vetting their claims that their oh so pure consciousness can't let them bake for sodomists.
But, in the middle 60s, NOTHING NOTHING was going to change the mind of the majority of Southerners who didn't want to drink from waterfountains, or buy chicken, with blacks. So, principles had to bend to the reality, and necessity, that we have only one class of citizens in this country. And I have to add that my experiences have taught me that that is also true for Jews and Muslims.
"But, in the middle 60s, NOTHING NOTHING was going to change the mind of the majority of Southerners who didn't want to drink from waterfountains, or buy chicken, with blacks. So, principles had to bend to the reality, and necessity, that we have only one class of citizens in this country."
Did I say you were a liar?
I meant dirty, low-life liar.
1.
There were plenty of southern integrationists. They were Republicans.
2. 1966- pro-integrationist Republican Winthrop Rockefeller won Arkansas, replacing Clinton-pal Orval Faubus.
3. 1966 Republican Bo Calloway ran against Democrat Lester Maddox, who “gained national attention for refusing to serve blacks in his popular cafeteria near the Georgia Tech campus. Newsmen tipped off about the confrontation reported how restaurant patrons and employees wielded ax handles while Mr. Maddox waved a pistol. …”
Lester Maddox Dies at 87; Segregationist Ex-Governor Leaves Complicated Legacy | HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared
a. Maddox was endorsed by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the above governor’s race. When the race was too close to call, the Democrat state legislature gave it to Maddox.
b. Calloway appealed to the Supreme Court….but the court upheld the legislature’s decision.
c. On that very Supreme Court was former KKK member Justice Hugo Black.
d. Democrat Hugo Black was Democrat FDR’s first appointee, in 1937. This KKK Senator from Alabama wrote the majority decision on Korematsu v. US; in 1967, he said ‘They all look alike to a person not a Jap.”
Engage: Conversations in Philosophy: "They all look alike to a person not a Jap"*: The Legacy of Korematsu at OSU
e. And, Hugo Black's anti-Catholic bias, which showed up in his actions on the Supreme Court:
"... Black was head of new members for the largest Klan cell in the South. New members of the KKK had to pledge their allegiance to the “eternal separation of Church and State.”... Separation was a crucial part of the KKK’s jurisprudential agenda. It was included in the Klansman’s Creed..."
Egnorance: Hugo Black and the real history of "the wall of separation between church and state"
f. Liberal historian Eric Foner writes that the Klan was “…a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party…” Foner, “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,” p. 425
g. "The night riders move through the darkness, white against the black road....they go about their business, their horsed draped, guns and bullwhips banging dully against saddles.
....this is the South Carolina of the 1870s, not of the turn of a new millennium, and the night riders are the terror of these times. They roam upcountry, visiting their version of justice on poor blacks and the Republicans that support them, refusing to bow to the requirements of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments."
From the novel "The White Road," by John Connolly
4. 1966- Republican Spiro Agnew ran against Democrat segregationists George Mahoney for governor of Maryland. Agnew enacted some of the first laws in the nation against race discrimination in public housing. “Agnew signed the state's first open-housing laws and succeeded in getting the repeal of an anti-
miscegenation law.”
Spiro Agnew - Wikipedia