Blacks at home support a judge liberals assail [NYT - Re: Charles Pickering]

The NYT ^ | Feb 17, 2002 | DAVID FIRESTONE

[maica]

I am willing to bet that the crime rate in this Alabama community is much lower than it is in DC, Philly or Baltimore, yet a respected member of the community is not considered appropriate for the bench in the region! - by the so-called People for the American Way. (Those socialist groups are masters at painting themselves with patriotic names.)

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thank you for reposting BUMP!

[summer]

Alabama community

I think you meant Mississippi. :)

[summer]

My pleasure. It's an article worth reading - twice. :)

[mhking]

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[summer]

I meant to say: and THEN they made all these stupid statements about Pickering...

[maica]

Of course! My apologies to all Mississippians.

[CGVet58]

one of the local residents in above article mentioned "... if someone would just come down here and talk to us about the Judge..."; I say it should be just the other way around - local blacks who emphatically support Judge Pickering should send a delegate to Washington and provide an audience and testimony of their support to the Congress - preferably with media monitoring.

(but if frogs had handguns, birds wouldn't f*%k with them, either....)

J

[onyx]

Thanks for the ping, summer.

*Mississippi ping*

[SuziQ]

Thanks for re-posting this. When I read it back in 2002, I couldn't help but wonder if the NYT was sneering behind the article at 'those stupid black folks down in Mississippi who don't know what's good for them'.

I'm thrilled that Pres. Bush exercised his recess appointment right in this case.

[sultan88]

Thanks for the ping, onyx. Some good information on Judge Pickering.

[summer]

Mr. Jones [the black council member who opposed integration of schools] said he rebuffed a recent telephone request by Judge Pickering that he write the Senate a letter of support. (He had publicly opposed the judge's original appointment to the federal bench in 1990.) Several other [balck] council members did agree to the judge's request, however, and their letters are on file with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Re your post #28 - I don't understand why these letters were not made public. And why such letters are never mentioned by any media I have seen.

[summer]

I couldn't help but wonder if the NYT was sneering behind the article at 'those stupid black folks down in Mississippi who don't know what's good for them'.

Maybe you're right, but I did not come away with that feeling. I just felt it was important to hear from these local blacks, and it seems no one else has talked to them about Pickering.

[summer]

Re your post #29 - You're welcome. :)

[merry10]

"Four of the five black council members, in fact, said they enthusiastically supported Judge Pickering's appointment. The fifth, Manuel Jones, said he opposed the nomination, largely because he differed with Judge Pickering's efforts in the late 1980's to integrate the largely black city schools with the largely white county schools."

And this is/was a BAD thing? This is the man who is being painted as a racist? I remember in Liberal Boston back in the 70s, the high school students tipping over buses because they were so opposed to integration.

[summer]

I think the whole "debate" by the left about Pickering has conveniently omitted anything about Pickering's record in the past 20 years or so.

[okie01]

"...they made all these stupid statements about Pickering. The candidates seem not to have enough time to investigate facts on their own. But, they should."

Summer, there is no doubt in my mind but what Kerry and the rest are fully aware of the facts in Pickering's case. They know Pickering is anything but a racist. They know the blacks in Mississippi support and admire him. They know all these things.

Yet, in their perverse political world, it is incumbent upon them to dissemble and smear. The left is never wrong and the right is never right. The Democrat party is held hostage by its extreme beliefs and hatred for the right.

I can't imagine living as they must do -- lying every day.

[SuziQ]

I just felt it was important to hear from these local blacks, and it seems no one else has talked to them about Pickering.

Oh, I agree. But I don't remember any other news organization picking up this story, either.

I guess being from MS myself, I look for a snide attitude among writers of the NYT towards my home state. They did the same thing during the time of the vote on the state flag.

[summer]

Re your post #37 - Maybe you're right. I don't know.

[summer]

I don't remember any other news organization picking up this story, either.

Same here.