[mac_truck]

what they [Duke & Wallace] did or do doesn't change my reverence for the flag they misuse or for my ancestors who fought under it.

Well it does change the symbolic meaning of the Confederate flag though doesn't it? Regardless of your personal feelings . Funny how nobody who claims to have such reverence for the CBF ever got aound to challanging that 'minor trash-spouting wannabe national powerhouse' George Wallace over its use.

Do you dispute the accuracy of the CNN report about what Kerry and Sharpton were claiming?

I could care less about the accuracy of anything CNN reports, much less Kerry's office. It sounds like you watch and believe too much cable television. That's your problem, not mine.

The picture above the caption showed police in riot gear escorting black students in buses. But, but, but you had claimed that it was all about white students.

Well at least up North the police were used to PROTECT the law abiding black folks. Or have you forgotten the Edmund Pettus bridge...incident? That was yer buddy Wallace again wasn't?

[Source: especially to educate mac]

Lol. Please tell me you have something more substantial to support your crap than an old opinion piece written by a graduate student.

I remember the Boston riots, having earlier lived in both Boston and Cambridge while in college.

I seriously doubt the accuracy of anything you remember from college.

I don't deny that blacks were earlier denied the right to vote in the Texas Democrat primary or in earlier general elections. History is history.

Do you think the 1944 Surpreme Court decision on "whites-only" primaries was the end of the black voting rights problem in Texas? You're kidding me right? How about all those other methods used in Texas and the rest of the South back then?

Poll taxes
Literacy tests
“Grandfather” clauses
Suppressive election procedures
Black codes and enforced segregation
Gerrymandering
Physical intimidation and violence
Restrictive eligibility requirements
Rewriting of State constitutions

-btw It is interesting to note that in 2006 the SCV and their Republican dupes delegates are putting their trust in the Court rather than the People in their quest to have the Confederate plaques reinstated. Why is that?

One final question and then I think we're done here. Do you consider Alberto Gonzalez a Southerner, and if not why not?

[rustbucket]

Well it does change the symbolic meaning of the Confederate flag though doesn't it? Regardless of your personal feelings .

Not to me.

That was yer buddy Wallace again wasn't?

The way you carry on about him, I suspect you're in love.

Please tell me you have something more substantial to support your crap than an old opinion piece written by a graduate student.

So, you can't refute that article, huh? Did you notice the following from it?

They waved, not burned, American flags during nearly every demonstration. They consistently invoked the tradition of American liberty in their fight to retain it. Unfortunately, this sometimes resulted in a perverse blend of patriotism and racism, which culminated when a Charlestown youth literally speared a black attorney with a flag pole adorned with the Stars and Stripes at City Hall Plaza, a moment captured in a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

According to your logic that must change the symbolic meaning of the Stars and Stripes.

I seriously doubt the accuracy of anything you remember from college.

LOL.

One final question and then I think we're done here. Do you consider Alberto Gonzalez a Southerner, and if not why not?

Why? What did he do now? Did he engineer some more clandestine plaque replacements in the middle of the night like he did before? Wasn't he advising Bush back when Bush signed the Campaign Finance Reform bill? Heaven help us.