Posted on 05/02/2007 6:28:19 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. Connor's men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and police dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children.
At the time, it should be noted, Connor was the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama. A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Connor had been a Democrat state legislator and a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. A year after attacking the African-American children, Connor was elected, as a Democrat, president of the state Public Service Commission.
The way the schools teach about the south you would have thought that the guy must have been a republican. I thought the same thing until my son went to college and brought home a non-PC history book.
To set the record straight about the heritage of the GOP is why I wrote “Back to Basics for the Republican Party” — see http://www.republicanbasics.com for more information.
What did he do, check it out of the museum? ;-)
Good job!
NOVA in Manassas, VA where they still have conservative teachers.
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