Posted on 06/23/2020 5:11:19 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Read again what I said. Public appearances and utterances and private thoughts are two different things.
Basicly I think he had figured out that things were going to have to change, but he didn’t know how to do it. He had a tiger by the tail and couldn’t let go.
Look at George Wallace and Lester Maddox in later years.
There was nothing redeeming about Eugene “Bull’’ Connor. He was a violently racist man.
So were George Wallace and Lester Maddox, and they changed.
Why do you think you know what Connor said in private to his friends?
Any man who could turn fire hoses and dogs on people demonstrating for their civil rights isn’t going to be waxing Shakespeare over mint juleps. Why don’t you tell me what he was like in private. Better yet, take a hike.
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