It's good to see the Democratic Party getting back to it's roots.
Posted on 10/21/2014 9:23:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Arkansas Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor argued that the federal government’s desegregation of Arkansas’s largest public school in 1957 was an “unwilling invasion” that took “a local problem out of the local authorities’ hands” and led to deep suspicions of democracy in the state, according to a copy of his college thesis obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Written in 1985, the 30-page paper—which also suggested that the state’s Democratic Party was hindering economic progress, and attributed policies such as welfare and the Equal Rights Amendment to “wild-eyed liberals”—could add to Pryor’s difficulties as he fights to protect his seat from Republican challenger Rep. Tom Cotton.
College writings have become a campaign issue in the Arkansas Senate race, with the Pryor campaign and national Democrats attacking Cotton for his student newspaper columns and senior thesis.
The paper is housed at the University of Arkansas special collections library, which suspended the Washington Free Beacon‘s library privileges earlier this year. Pryor, who graduated from the university in 1985, wrote that the thesis was influenced by his work on his father David Pryor’s 1984 senatorial campaign....
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
It's good to see the Democratic Party getting back to it's roots.
Did Pryor go buy shovels by the gross? He’s sure digging.
Prior is a Klan Kleagle?
Precisely
Can the Knights of the Golden Circle and the Copperheads be far behind?
Governor Orval Faubus was a threat to the monoculture—only over 80% of the Black vote.
Let’s hope Cotton is smart enough to leave this one alone.
Here is the link to where you can download the entire 800 page history of THE ROLE OF FEDERAL MILITARY FORCES IN DOMESTIC DISORDERS, 1945–1992
http://www.history.army.mil/catalog/pubs/30/30-20.html
Click on the .pdf link to download the entire volume.
Chapters 2 & 3 discuss President Eisenhower sending troops to Little Rock, Ark to enforce desegregation. Of course modern Dems don’t tell their Black constituents that it was a REPUBLICAN president that enforced the ending of segregation of schools.
The next pair of chapters discuss how the US Army protected Medgar Evars at Ole Miss in Oxford, MS.
Thanks for the link. Mark Pryor is an idiot.
My brother was in the Arkansas National Guard facing the regulars in Little Rock. He slipped across the line at night and told a paratroop Captain, “We don’t want to fight.” The Captain replied, “Neither do we. If you don’t shoot at us, we won’t shoot at you.”
just around the corner......lurking
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