Posted on 12/13/2004 10:20:04 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Until the mid-1960's, national Democratic Party leaders had a "sweetheart" deal with state Democrats in South Carolina to oppress African-Americans by keeping them in inferior schools, dilapidated housing and denying them equal access to public accommodations, retiring Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-SC, revealed on Sunday.
"We had a sweetheart deal with the National Democratic Party," he told CBS's "60 Minutes." "We’ll go along with all your programs, if you’ll go along with our segregation."
The 83-year-old Democrat said that political pressure forced him, for instance, to vote against the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall, the first black to be nominated to the Supreme Court, saying it would have cost him his Senate seat to do otherwise. "I couldn't get re-elected," Hollings explained. "And if I had voted for him, I might as well withdraw from the race."
Though he said he felt extremely guilty about opposing Marshall, Hollings took the opportunity of his last big media interview to bash the lone black in President Bush's second cabinet, Condoleezza Rice.
"She ought to go back to teaching Russian or whatever it was," the one-time Dixiecrat complained. "I've been in security, I've been working on intelligence. And for her to come on to the television, and saying on 9/11 there was nothing specific. Nothing specific. You don't say that."
Hollings is no stranger to racial controversy. In 1993 he told reporters that African leaders then attending a Geneva trade conference seemed like cannibals.
"Rather than eat each other, they'd just come up (to Switzerland) and get a good square meal," he joked.
"I couldn't get re-elected," Hollings explained. "And if I had voted for him, I might as well withdraw from the race."
A typical “man of principle” Democrat.
Good thing THAT doesn't happen any more...
I can't believe the old f*** actually admitted this!
Last night's (ahem) "interview" by Mike Wallace was a disgrace to journalism.
Just thought I'd clarify.
Seems like Hollings said the Dem party gave him the very bad policy of segregation, in return for him supporting other very bad Dem programs. Sounds like a real lose - lose deal for the country.
After reading this, I'm more firmly convinced that Nelson in Fl will retire..
He also said "Condi Rice should go back to teachin Russian, or whatevah" I guess the ol senile coot knows more about Condi's bio than we do. I would have sworn she was Provost of Stanford.
Dear Fritz, thank you for being the second biggest pork barrel slut behind Robert Byrd:)
This confirms what many knew already. Good find - good post!
LOL! Works for me either way.
"She ought to go back to teaching Russian or whatever it was," the one-time Dixiecrat complained. "I've been in security, I've been working on intelligence. And for her to come on to the television, and saying on 9/11 there was nothing specific. Nothing specific. You don't say that."
Proving once again...once a DemonRAT Klansman/Grand Dragon...ALWAYS a DemonRAT Klansman/Grand Dragon!
Would this STUPID RAT be happier if Condi had laid the blame on the doorstep of IMPOTUS X-42 and the DemonRATs...as she SHOULD have?
Once again now "Lake of Fire 101" dwellers of, past, present and future, ARE, connect the dots.>
No small wonder why Hell hath enlarged itself.
This is ONE time I'm hoping my LIBERAL friends were watching CBS......because I've been sending around the letter that was posted here on FR by the Black Woman asking for the Dems Apologies for all they had done to Black folks over the last 50 years......THIS just confirms it. The crack keeps getting bigger for the dems.
Further evidence that "Sammy the Bull" was a practitioner of a profession that sometimes provides a public service.....
Further evidence that "Sammy the Bull" was a practitioner of a profession that sometimes provides a public service.....
Well, that hasn't changed.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE DEMONRAT PARTY
I agree with you that Nelson is going to retire . . . but how did you get that from the Hollings interview?
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