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(Message started by: BobG on Dec 9^th, 2002, 2:38pm)

Title: movie
Post by BobG on Dec 9^th, 2002, 2:38pm

17 people logged in and very few talking.

While ya'll are just sittin there looking at the screen here's a movie to watch.

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/chickenhawks.html

Title: Re: movie
Post by SommelierCH on Dec 9^th, 2002, 3:14pm

Absolutely the best thing I’ve seen in years!!! You are amazing, friend. Every person in the United States should be required to watch that! It is so fucking transparent that they are going after the oil, but watch this board and the denials that will show up. Putting the money and lives into renewable resources that are home grown, or energy from the sun, just doesn’t show up on their screens. Even though it’s so sad that we will lose more lives, I laughed my ass off. Limbaugh and “A*** C****”. Thank you.

David J.

Title: Re: movie
Post by SFChris on Dec 9^th, 2002, 3:27pm

Pretty powerful stuff, Bob.

Chris

Title: Re: movie
Post by Ted on Dec 9^th, 2002, 3:55pm

Excellent, Bob. And speaking of chickenhawks, or one in particular...

Dixiecrats unworthy of praise

Sen. Trent Lott wishes Dixiecrats had won presidential election of 1948.

I WAS an 8-year-old white boy when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that states could not have separate public schools for white kids and black kids. Not until I was 16, however, did I get the opportunity to go to school with black kids.

Politicians in Virginia--and those in other Southern states as well--kept dragging their feet to keep schools segregated.

Consequently, it was not until 1962 that Stafford High School became one of the first schools in the state to desegregate.

In American history class that school year, I learned that exactly 100 years had elapsed since blacks were set free by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Any high school student could see that our country was slow to live up to its principles.

Meanwhile, the desegregation of my high school went much smoother than some people had hoped and others had feared. Those were turbulent times in the South, with a lot of Rebel-flag waving and racist rhetoric.

Society got through it and moved on. Morality and common sense triumphed over ignorance and the manipulations of white politicians who appealed to the deep-seated racial prejudice of voters.

Unfortunately, echoes from that not-so-distant past are still heard.

On Thursday, speaking at a 100th-birthday party and retirement celebration for South Carolina's Sen. Strom Thurmond, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott told an audience in the Dirksen Senate Office Building that it was too bad Thurmond lost when he ran for president in 1948.

What? Was Lott serious? There was no applause. The audience sat in silence.

In 1948, Thurmond ran as a third-party candidate, a so-called "Dixiecrat." That splinter group of Southern Democrats consisted of blatant segregationists who thought Democrat Harry Truman was too liberal.

Thurmond's politics that year are summed up in a 1998 biography, "Ol' Strom," by Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson. They quote from a speech Thurmond made in Jackson, Miss.: "I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."

Mississippi was one of four Deep South states that gave Thurmond the majority of its votes that November.

Thurmond was a progressive Southern politician until 1948, according to Bass and Thompson. They interviewed two Thurmond aides who said they "were stunned" as they listened to that speech in Jackson. One said chills ran down his spine.

Lott received a similar reaction on Thursday when he said, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

All these problems?

Let's hope the senator from Mississippi stands on the floor of the Senate this week and elaborates. While he's at it, I'd like to know if he thinks Southern white folks would now be living in heaven on Earth if the South had won the Civil War.

It would be naïve to dismiss Lott's remark as a mere slip of the lip, a political faux pas committed by an admiring friend caught up in the emotion of a celebratory party for Ol' Strom, the Senate's first centenarian.

No, a sad truth is revealed by Lott's comment: We haven't come far enough as a nation since 1962, 1954, 1948 or 1863.

LARRY EVANS can be reached at The Free Lance-Star, 616 Amelia St., Fredericksburg, Va. 22401; by fax at 373-8455; by phone at 374-5409; or by e-mail at levans@freelancestar.com.

Date published: Mon, 12/09/2002