Posted on 06/05/2023 11:27:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
… For the Kings, closing the 1976 convention affirmed their continued reach — and their pragmatism — eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. For (Jimmy) Carter, it marked the evolution of a white politician from the Old Confederacy: As a local leader and state senator who aspired for more, he had mostly avoided controversial stands during the civil rights era. During all their years in Atlanta, he never met the movement’s leader.
“Carter never did anything racist himself. But he didn’t participate,” biographer Jonathan Alter said. “And King was right there.”
Yet the alliance Carter later forged with the King family endured as he grew into a governor, president and global humanitarian who advanced racial equality and human rights.
“He was one of the few presidents who really was an advocate for the black community out of a pureness of heart,” said the Rev. Bernice King, who leads the King Center that her mother founded. […]
During the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, as Martin Luther King Jr. worked with President Lyndon Johnson on the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, Carter was a one-term state senator. He supported Johnson’s election in 1964 and never aligned with segregationist colleagues in Atlanta, but Carter didn’t speak out in favor of the federal laws during his two campaigns for governor, nor did he appear at Ebenezer, just a few blocks from the Georgia Capitol. …
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He's dead now.
Rest In Peace Dr Arne Burkhardt who pioneered work in the pathology of the COVID "vaccines"
Carter’s simpering acolytes in the “Press” are using his long haul hopsice care to try their best to rehabilitate his failed presidency. Thus, you have these slurpy articles trying to create nostalgia for a phony and a flop.
The only good thing about the Carter years was Billy Beer; and ain’t saying much.
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