More Blackwell hypocrisy : the civil rights movement for justice & rights

[Carolab]

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My parents taught that the human condition is not a spectator sport. The Declaration of Independence was required reading in our home. That reading and their teaching helped me understand our human rights were inherent. Human dignity was not something the state could grant or take away. The Declaration of Independence did not grant Americans with inalienable rights, but with its writing, Americans understood the human rights they had inherently, and were therefore able and willing to fight to protect them. As a family, we talked about the struggle of our great country to live up to its own promise of human rights and human dignity. At the same time, millions of other Americans, black and white, were recognizing this struggle as well. We needed leadership, and we got it from Rosa Parks, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and hundreds of others.

The civil rights movement transformed the country and changed our lives. It was a human rights movement, fundamentally a religious movement, inspired by men and women of great faith, whether ordained or lay people, whether Christian or not. Denied political and economic freedoms, African-Americans still had religious freedom. Faith gave African-Americans the courage to endure the broken promises of freedom with dignity intact. Their faith fueled their will to continue the struggle. Faith also provided the civil rights movement an appeal to a common humanity shared by people of faith outside the movement and provided the possibility for collective redemption. The civil rights movement also drew on American ideals of justice and rights embodied in the U.S. Constitution. The law was on the side of the movement, even if lawmakers ignored this fact. The movement showed the difference politics informed by faith could make in the lives of people.

Seeing what was happening in America and throughout the world, I refused to live a life on the sidelines. Following graduate school, I got involved in politics as a candidate for public office.

More: http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v11n3/blackwell.html

[meganmonkey]

1. Well, ya know us Dems are racist, right?

We oppose Blackwell, Gonzales, Condi Rice, I mean, it's practically systematic!!! It couldn't possibly because all of the above are a combination of scary, incompetent, nefarious, living in a fantasy world, kissing B**sh's ass, etc etc etc...
(sarcasm)

That's what the RW pundits are saying anyway. :puke:

[Carolab]

2. Look at this fine organization. I'm sure it's devoted to civil rights.

http://www.cfinst.org/presidential/members.html

[meganmonkey]

4. Hmmm,,,'nonpartisan' think tank

I did a quick google search and didn't find anything too shady, although it looks like they have a couple DINOs mixed in with a whole lot of RWers.

[Liberty Belle]

6. Oh, sure. With Blackwell in charge!

[MelissaB]

3. Kick for all to see

[bleever]

5. Cue Lovitz: "Liar!" This reads so phony, it reminds me of Steve Martin

at the beginning of "The Jerk": "I was born a poor black child..."


Phooey!

Bleh!