Posted on 09/26/2007 7:46:50 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
9/25/2007 -- "What we saw here in Little Rock in the Fall of 1957 shocked us and changed us. Mothers and fathers across America saw in those nine children the vulnerability and promise of their own children. They saw in that hateful mob the ugliness of their own prejudices and fears. And they were forced to ask themselves: "Is that who I am? Is that who we are?" The brave men and women on this stage paid a high price for the answers to those questions. And we are all so grateful for their courage and their sacrifice.
"Today, fifty years later, America is still struggling to finish their work. We have seen schools re-segregating and a Supreme Court chipping away at Brown v. Board of Education. We have seen in Jena, Louisiana and elsewhere that the scales of justice are seriously out of balance - and discrimination is a daily fact of life.
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Hillary STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice generalization. Notice she doesn’t give specifics. Probably because there AREN’T any.
But, Eisenhower was a Republican, so they have to spin the story.
Here are two old threads on Free Republic.
President Sends Troops to Little Rock [50 years ago this month, Eisenhower sends 101st airborne]
Telegram from parents of AR students to Eisenhower, thanking him for sending 101st to protect kids
She also remembers, as a young woman, of considering a career in the Marine Corps.
Telegram from Senator John Stennis (D-MS) to President Dwight Eisenhower, Oct 1, 1957.
Dear Mr. President:
The unfortunate situation concerning our schools, which can rapidly and steadily worsen, presents the most serious and the gravest domestic crisis of this century.I am convinced we have not yet made clear to you the strong and almost unanimous sentiment prevailing among the mothers and fathers of the South against enforced integration of our schools.
This applies to both white and colored parents.
Nor have we made clear to you what will be the ultimate and fatal consequences of enforced integration.
This is no longer a question merely of civil rights, nor a question of state's rights. The real issue at stake is the survival of our public schools. Schools originate and are sustained through the combined active support and cooperation of parents and the efforts of dedicated teachers. This support and cooperation cannot exist with schools integrated by force.
Continued operations of a militant department of justice in the field of public education at the state level, with the use or threatened use of soldiers marching from school to school, will totally destroy the public school system in great areas of the South.
The innocent victims will be the children of both races. Opposition to integration is actually the overwhelming voice of the mothers and fathers of these children, those most directly concerned.
Their objection is in no spirit of defiance or lawlessness on their part, they are sincere, patriotic and law abiding citizens.
Traditions and customs for a pattern of separate social and civic activities between the races have been handled down from mother to daughter, from father to son. This pattern has afforded generations of peaceful and harmonious cooperation among the people of the two races.
These traditions cannot be erased by court orders, not swept aside by force.
I have great respect for your sincere desire to serve the people and your deep concern for the welfare of all citizens. To get the true facts and to chart any sound course of action, I believe you must seek information and advice beyond your ordinary channels.
I therefore suggest that you select a group of twenty or more personal advisors in each southern state, requesting each of them to talk directly with a minimum fifty school patrons, and then to report their collective findings and recommendations directly to you.
I plead for your earnest personal reflection on these facts. Any decision on your part for action in the present crisis which fails to take into consideration the basic desires and firm conviction of those most directly concerned will plague our nation for generations to come, completely wiping out progress made thus far in peaceful and harmonious relations between the two races, and totally destroying our public schools.
The Jena, La. 'Democrat Campaign March' along with this show an orchestrated effect to gen up racial tension and ensure Blacks don't leave the Democrat Plantation!
"I remember 1957, when my late husband William was a young negro, and was being denied his High School education in Little Rock by a bunch of angry white rednecks.
What's that? He was only 11 and in 5th Grade in the Fall of 1957? And he's white?
Nevermind."
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