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Thread #130902   Message #2957160
Posted By: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
03-Aug-10 - 01:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: FoX News TKO's Obama..Shirley Sherrod Firing
Subject: RE: BS: FoX News TKO's Obama..Shirley Sherrod Firing
Ohhh, and more 'by the way'.....

Bobert: ""Bigot" has a special place in out history... Like Goerge Wallace and Lester Maddox and Jim Crow... For those of us who stood up to those rednecks in the name of humanity and what is right we ain't gonna let ya'll have thios word like a weapon to use against us... It just that simple... I will fight you or anyone here who tries to co-opt it to use against people who are tolerant and who have fought the battles.."


GfS:..from wikipedia.....

"Lester Garfield Maddox (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American >>>>>>>>>>   DEMOCRATIC <<<<<<<<<< Party politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.

Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist and maintained, to his death, that he never had any regrets. However, Tom Murphy (former Georgia House Speaker) stated: "He had a reputation as a segregationist, but he told us he was not a segregationist, but that you should be able to associate with whoever you wanted."[1]

Jim Crow:.....Jim Crow laws were a product of the solidly Democratic South. Conservative white Southern >>>>>>>>>> DEMOCRATS <<<<<<<<<<. , exploiting racial fear and attacking the corruption (real or perceived) of Reconstruction Republican governments, took over state governments in the South in the 1870s and dominated them for nearly 100 years, chiefly as a result of disenfranchisement of most blacks through statute and constitutions. In 1956, southern resistance to the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education resulted in a resolution called the Southern Manifesto. It was read into the Congressional Record and supported by 96 southern congressmen and senators, all but two of them southern >>>>>>>> DEMOCRATS <<<<<<<<.

Gosh!...How did that happen???????

Me thinks the propaganda machine has you guys all turned around!!!

Still winkin',
GfS