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Post by Tim Collins on Jan 29, 2010 7:12:39 GMT -7
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Courage-at-the-Greensboro-Lunch-Counter.htmlOn February 1, 1960, four young African-American men, freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, entered the Greensboro Woolworth’s and sat down on stools that had, until that moment, been occupied exclusively by white customers. The four—Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil and David Richmond—asked to be served, and were refused. But they did not get up and leave. Indeed, they launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America. A section of that historic counter is now held by the National Museum of American History, where the chairman of the division of politics and reform, Harry Rubenstein, calls it “a significant part of a larger collection about participation in our political system.” The story behind it is central to the epic struggle of the civil rights movement. Read the rest at the link provided.
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Post by JJ on Jan 29, 2010 14:03:49 GMT -7
Affirmative Action Today...Affirmative Action Tomorrow...Affirmative Action Forever! The government lead by "elected officials" created an injustice to fix injustice. Great. How many generations of white males must be punished to make things right?
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Post by Tim Collins on Jan 29, 2010 14:14:26 GMT -7
I guess thats one way of seeing it.
I prefer to see the courage it took for these young people to risk abuse and even the possibility of death to help move this country one step forward on our road to achieving the ideals spelled out in our Declaration of Independence.
For their courage alone this should be remembered.
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Post by JJ on Jan 29, 2010 14:27:38 GMT -7
I guess thats one way of seeing it. I prefer to see the courage it took for these young people to risk abuse and even the possibility of death to help move this country one step forward on our road to achieving the ideals spelled out in our Declaration of Independence. For their courage alone this should be remembered. Every elected official would agree with you. Who knows, maybe someday you will be one.
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Post by Tim Collins on Jan 29, 2010 14:29:36 GMT -7
I guess thats one way of seeing it. I prefer to see the courage it took for these young people to risk abuse and even the possibility of death to help move this country one step forward on our road to achieving the ideals spelled out in our Declaration of Independence. For their courage alone this should be remembered. Every elected official would agree with you. Who knows, maybe someday you will be one. I'd say a lvery large majority of all people would agree with me, not just elected officials
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Post by JJ on Jan 29, 2010 14:35:22 GMT -7
Every elected official would agree with you. Who knows, maybe someday you will be one. I'd say a very large majority of all people would agree with me, not just elected officials You are right. No doubt.
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Post by webrunner on Jan 29, 2010 23:30:02 GMT -7
Every elected official would agree with you. Who knows, maybe someday you will be one. I'd say a lvery large majority of all people would agree with me, not just elected officials Exactly right, Snil. I agree with you and I have no interest in any public office. You know what they say about those who don't know their past... JRockDumbBumpOnaLog, life's too short to be so discontent all the time.
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Post by webjogger on Jan 30, 2010 10:50:32 GMT -7
I'd say a lvery large majority of all people would agree with me, not just elected officials Exactly right, Snil. I agree with you and I have no interest in any public office. You know what they say about those who don't know their past... JRockDumbBumpOnaLog, life's too short to be so discontent all the time. Since name calling seems to be ok when you partake in it. Ok right wing nutjob...what do you support? The republican party blindly? A party that has Jim Crow states as its base? You support affirmative action right? You detest how foxnews went after Jesse Jackson a man who did a lot for civil rights in the county? A man who had the blood of a murdered MLK on his shirt? No you dont? But I am the bad guy for pointing out exactly what you believe about AA? Its fake outrage. A political stunt. Snil is learning the ways to run for office. The only thing you are offended about is setting in which my comments were made. You are not offended about what I said. Truthfully you agree with me, but you are too much of a coward to admit it and instead went for cheap political points. Here is some history for you. In conjunction with the civil rights movement, Johnson overcame southern resistance and convinced Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation. John Kennedy originally proposed the Act and had lined up the necessary votes in the House to pass his civil rights act by the time of his death in November 1963, but it was Johnson who pushed it through the Senate and signed it into law on July 2, 1964. Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, "We have lost the South for a generation", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. In 1965, he achieved passage of a second civil rights bill, the Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time. In accordance with the act, several states, "seven of the eleven southern states of the former confederacy" - Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia - were subjected to the procedure of preclearance in 1965, while Texas, home to the majority of the African American population at the time, followed in 1975. So what kind of party uses the ignorance and hate that man has for his fellow man as it's voting base? See Nixon's southern strategy.
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Post by Tim Collins on Jan 30, 2010 11:19:33 GMT -7
That is a pretty narrow view of the history, Accurate in the facts, but lacking in depth. Both parties had members on either side of the issue. Some say look at the voting record on the legislation and it shows GOP support larger than Dem - which is true. The reality is the majority of citizens knew the legislation was right and supported it.
The civil rights movement when you strip away the policts, was a peoples movement - not a party movement.
And as fo the name calling - both drop it
PS Snil - Tim Collins - is not learning the way to run for office I am what I am no apologies
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Post by webrunner on Jan 30, 2010 12:45:59 GMT -7
I'm not calling anyone names. All I did was roll as many screen names recently used as I could into one. It's not like I came up with those out of nothing. What is it now? Webjogger (c'mon, you can do better), I really meant what I said, life's too short to believe everybody is out to screw you all the time. I did not see Snil's post as having anything to do with Affirmative Action. Your paranoid hostility seemed misplaced. Why would I care about "cheap political points?" If you've seen anything I've written, and I know you have, you'd know I'm not worried about being liked.
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