This mock Republican outrage over the political rhetoric at Coretta Scott King's funeral reminds me of nothing so much as all those white folks in the 1960s who just wanted Dr. and Mrs. King to stop stirring people up so much! They just couldn't understand why all that disruption was necessary. Why couldn't the good nigras just go along to get along? They wondered.
All that marching! All those speeches! All that commotion over a little thing like segregation; over not being allowed to vote; over being killed for looking in the direction of a white woman! The nerve!
Ironically, the concerns of these Concerned Citizens are entirely consistent with the conservative tradition they so proudly proclaim. It was conservatives who opposed every step in the march toward progress in which Dr. and Mrs. King played such critical roles. Kate O'Beirne is no better than George Wallace. Rush Limbaugh is no better than Bull Connor.
In Atlanta, Georgia in 1966, Rev. Lowery would have been hanged from a tree branch and burned for insulting the honor of a man like George W. Bush. Coretta Scott King fought to win him the right to speak his mind without fearing for his life. That he did so yesterday, and the manner in which he did it, is not a shame. It is a triumph.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Stirrin' up the good nigras
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I see you are deeply into truthiness
. Let me shatter your world view with some facts. If Reverand Lowery would have been hung by a tree branch in 1966, it would have been at the hands of Democrats. LBJ once voted against a national anti-lynch law. It was Republicans who founded the NAACP, Republicans who fought segregation, black codes, lynch law and Jim Crow. Martin Luthor King Jr. worked with Vice President Nixon to draft civil rights legislation -- which the Democrats -- including JFK -- opposed. It was Bobby Kennedy who ordered wire taps on King. Bull Connor was a Democrat. Stop being so smug and start embracing truth instead of truthiness. Had the Democrats prevailed in the history of this country, Corretta Scott King would have been John Kerry's house slave.
Lone Ranger,
I am not talking about Republicans or Democrats. I am talking about conservatives and their wretched history of opposing every step forward that American society has made since the founding of the republic.
But, on the subject of party affiliation, today's Republican party is as different from the Party of Lincoln as today's Democratic Party is from the Dixiecrats who counted Strom Thurmond, George Wallace and, yes, Bull Connor among their numbers. These were vile, violent people who were willing to stop at no atrocity to defend their antiquated way of life.
It was J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, by the way, that carried out the wiretapping of MLK. I don't know Mr. Hoover's party affiliation, but he was certainly no liberal.
You want the truth, there it is.
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