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Thread #120208   Message #2835506
Posted By: Bobert
10-Feb-10 - 06:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Subject: RE: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Yeah, what Amos said...

My own family was every interesting in the 60's... My mom worked for JFK and my dad voted for Nixon... My mom marched in civil rights marches, worked with the Poor People's Campaign, was arrested half a dozen times, worked in the anti-war movement, etc... My dad, bless his stibborn heart, continues to vote for Republicans and had no interst in any of those things... The dinner table was very interesting... We had a long dinner table which sat 12 and my dad at one end and my quite Democrat mom at the other and my poor broghter and me on the sides watchin' the nightly brawl, "f-bombs" included...

Yeah, there just weren't Repubs out there workin' in the Civil Rights movement and none in the anti-war movement... These were Democrats... Make no bones about it... Democrats or kids of Democrats...

But, I gotta say that my mom wore my dad down and when he marched against the war on the Moritorium that was the proudest I have ever been of my dad... He never voted Repub again, either... Think he had enough with Nixon...

B~