A story about the Civil Rights movement

[nadinbrzezinski]

When going to college one of my profs told us the stories of his days as a freedom rider. Now, he was not your usual freedom rider. He was not an outsider, who came from the North. He was a southerner white. He told us of the phone going off at odd times in the night with death threats, and him and his father still going to register the black folks, and getting them to vote.

He told us of Selma... he was there. He was one of the few whites there.

And now Glenny wants to hijack that memory and that history.

So with all that Glenny needs (he has the right to spill his bilge by the way)

FUCK YOU GLENN.

There, I feel better.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. ...

http://allotherpersons.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/remembering-the-martyrs-of-freedom-summer-1964/

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. He knew them

The day we covered that... it was living history, not from a book.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Mississippi.

Among other dubious distinctions...the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment..in 1984!!!!!!!!

I know there must be some good people there..but they are so overshadowed by the others...

http://www.essortment.com/all/womenssuffrage_rnim.htm

Several states promoted suffrage for women. New York state passed a women's voting law in 1917. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson began to support the need for a constitutional amendment to which he had previously been opposed. When ratification by the states was begun on June 4, 1919 it only took six days for Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin to all ratify the amendment. Kansas, New York and Ohio followed on June 16, 1919. The last required 36th state to ratify was Tennessee, who barely ratified the amendment on August 18, 1920. The Tennessee vote to ratify hinged on one vote, the vote of a 24-year-old state legislator by the name of Harry Burn. He had originally voted against ratification. He changed his vote after his mother urged him to do so. Even after his vote, anti-suffrage rallies were held and anti-suffrage state legislators left the state so that a legislative quorum could not achieved. The Tennessee ratification was achieved and the required 36 states met the constitutional requirement.

The remaining twelve states of the Union took over sixty years to add their ratifications of the 19th amendment. Ten of these states originally had rejected ratifying the amendment. Mississippi was the last state of the 48 states to ratify the amendment when it did so on March 22, 1984.

[malaise]

4. This Beck BS is an inversion of reality

Civil rights for white people alone - he and the bussed in brown shirts are bat shit crazy racists.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Afraid bat shit crazy racists

which makes them even more dangerous