NO ONE would be a stretch ...
Posted on 05/17/2015 9:36:42 PM PDT by boycott
Apple CEO and Alabama native Tim Cook had some choice words on Sunday about meeting former Alabama Gov. George Wallace when he was a teenager.
Cook, the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company, spoke of Wallace during a commencement address he gave at George Washington University. According to Business Insider, the Robertsdale native told the graduating class an anecdote about visiting Washington, D.C., as a 16-year-old who had won an essay contest at school.
Before leaving for D.C., Cook had the chance to go to Montgomery and meet Wallace, who was notorious for his opposition to racial integration.
"Meeting my governor was not an honor for me," Cook said. "Shaking his hand felt like a betrayal of my own beliefs. It felt wrong, like I was selling a piece of my soul."
Cook contrasted Wallace with President Jimmy Carter, who he met on his D.C. trip. Both were Southern natives, but had very different values.
"Carter was kind and compassionate. He held the most powerful job in the world, and had not sacrificed any of his humanity," Cook said. "It was clear to me that one was right and one was wrong."
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They all did what they could do.
Does the Left have a conscious to bother? Tell me true.
This dick has little to do with Apple’s success.
NO ONE would be a stretch ...
Apple sucks. Tim Cook proves it.
Yea, because you can tell the difference between someone who has humanity, and someone who doesn’t by shaking their hand and having a few words with them.
The only reason he says this is because of politics.
Liar straight up.
Has anyone here been able to tell if someone has sold their humanity by shaking their hand?
Didn’t think so.
Segregation is obviously not the way.
Complete removal of “anyone” who would riot and burn down businesses is the way.
I loathe my iPad.
Sounds like just another Clinton family liar to me.
A teenager twisted and contorted about racism and politics? Way back then? Uh, I don’t think so. Twisted and contorted because he was queer, maybe.....
Lying for political expediency or gain - the Clintons, it’s what they do. Him too, apparently.
My thoughts, exactly.
Libs tell lies not because they need to but because it’s who they are.
Sometimes the strategy is to post negative articles but to immediately put a spin on the facts and discredit the source/author. The propaganda machine is very well oiled.
Shaking the hand of a fellow democrat caused you to loose your soul. Did you later find your soul in the act of sodomy? What a twisted rich person thingy.
He realized his electorate had changed underneath him
Typical politician
Jeffords
He spent tons of money building vocational schools, junior colleges and mental health facilities -- gouging Alabama taxpayers for a host of welfare programs. He was also strongly pro-union, winning endorsements from the far-left thugs of the AFL-CIO. For a while I lived in Alabama and old-timers there described him as a progressive.
Judge George Wallace was the most liberal judge that I had ever practiced law in front of. He was the first judge in Alabama to call me 'Mister' in a courtroom. -- J.L. Chestnut, black lawyer (pictured below)
He spent tons of money building vocational schools, junior colleges and mental health facilities —
Good deal. The vocational and junior colleges are one reason so many companies have been relocating to Alabama.
It’s a shame we don’t still have the mental health facilities. We use the prisons for that now.
Also, he called the black lawyer Mister? I have no problem with that. Maybe Wallace wasn’t the racist he was made out to be.
George Wallace had the most Democratic delegates to the Democratic Convention when he was shot. He won overwhelmingly in the ensuing Maryland and Michigan primaries with only Pennsylvania and California to come. Pennsylvania looked like a Wallace win.
The rules were changing but the smoke-filled rooms still had a lot of clout. No one knows whether Wallace or McGovern would have won.
No one doubts that Wallace would have won more states than McGovern.
Wallace had a lot of momentum heading into those states. He had a very good chance of winning the nomination.
Now he knows what bakers, florists and wedding photographers feel like when homos demand that they service their fake “weddings.”
Now he knows what bakers, florists and wedding photographers feel like when homos demand that they service their fake “weddings.”
Very good point.
Do you think that’s the only reason?
I’ve read where he truly felt sorry for what he had done, and had tried to go overboard to make up for it.
I can’t verify that, but if true the guy should be acknowledged for it.
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