Posted on 04/17/2008 11:24:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON -- An obituary of the anti-busing rabble-rouser Louise Day Hicks has sat in my in-basket for weeks. I stumbled upon it while researching the Boston school-busing crisis of the 1960s and early '70s, an ugly and embarrassing era in my beloved hometown.
I looked back at the busing crisis the first time Barack Obama delivered a sociology lecture -- that is, the speech in Philadelphia on March 18 in which he sought to explain why he embraced as a spiritual mentor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and why it was so crucial for the rest of America to understand that the root cause of Wright's hateful rants was his reaction to racism. The candidate was clear in his speech that the reason so many who aren't African-American were "surprised" by the content of Wright's sermons was that "the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning." Basically, Obama was telling whites they must understand and accept the underlying sentiment that compelled Wright to blame the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on America itself, and to call the United States the "U.S. of KKK-A."
The speech was an adept effort at damage control by a politician in trouble and it seems to have worked. Nonetheless, five seemingly insignificant words in it struck me: "As far as they're concerned." This is how Obama prefaced his remarks about whites of immigrant stock whose experience is that, "as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything" and they've grasped whatever success they've achieved on their own.
It is an awkward qualifier, suggesting that this is a perspective or a belief, and not necessarily the truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
She sure does.
The question is, why hasn’t MA kicked out those damned elitists from elected positions?
My guess is they’re just not bitter enough. ;)
She's right. To Obama, the hard work and accomplishments of whites is meaningless and ill-gotten. And increasingly, it is meaningless to many whites. The human mind can only escape so much indoctrination from childhood.
Those busing schemes were some of wickedest,most undemocratic, unconstitutional things done in America. And it turned Brown on it's head.
Somehow segregation always seemed to stop just before the judge's suburban town line began.They're very lucky there wasn't an armed revolt.
I must have missed where she calls Wright a ‘racist.’ Oh, that’s right, you have to be Caucasian to qualify for that epithet. /sarc
One person’s rabble rouser is another’s heroine.
Hicks stood up to the liberal Judicial activist Garrity.
I admired the lady. 90 % of the violence in the bussing years was mobs of blacks attacking lone whites all over the city.
Obama wants more, much more.
You know, it strikes me that career politicans in this country are completely clueless as to the real way the Internet has changed society. Used to be, an Obama could go to a private party in San Francisco and pander to one group of voters without it suddenly being common knowlege to the entire planet (and especially the other group of voters he lied to the night before.) Used to be, facts about what you believed ten years ago were so paper-bound that they went into the Memory Hole and disappeared by this year’s election, because regular people were too lazy to look it up and “journalists” didn’t really care. It really is a Brave New World!
Not enough, yet.
The people who either don’t watch any news at all or get their news from TV are still enough to keep us on the road to Hell.
First time I noticed that was during Pres.Carter’s campaign. He went from state to state, making campaign promises diametrically opposed to each other. Since I was in the AF, I followed news from many of my colleague’s states, and realized this. We often discussed this over drinks during that time. If there has been something like the internet where we could start the ball rolling, I suspect that his duplicity would have been well known before the election, but that aspect never made the press -— again, something we discussed with each other.
This has changed politics - if stuff like this doesn’t get propagated by the major media (including, now, web sites) it gets rolled into a letter that gets forwarded forty times from cousin Pete to Aunt Bessie... These things will no longer remain hidden for long.
Good point.
If the internet existed as it is now in 1992, Bill and Hill would never have made it out of the Ozarks.
wow... pretty familiar lately...
Yeah, they all blamed whitey for making them do it.
The only place that didn’t happen is South Boston, where Louise Day Hicks was councilor. Southie’s reputation is trash to this day, in the media. They were the only majority white neighborhood that stood up to Garrity.
But Southie was not as bad as it’s cracked up to be. That first spring after the riots started, I was at the South Boston St. Pattie’s day parade.
At one point there was a tremendous roar moving through the crowd as one of the marching units came along. I wondered who it was.
When it turned the corner it was a lone, elderly black man, holding a banner of a South Boston regiment. I was told he was the last survivor of that combat group.
He held back the entire parade as people pushed out all along the route to shake his hand and clap him on the back.
Southie was not so anti-black or anti-anything, as they were fiercely loyal to their community.
I noticed that evening that there was plenty of shots of the anti-bussing banners, etc, but no shot of the lone veteran.
The lamestream media will not change, but it will, eventually die, if it is not nationalized by the party(s) to keep the propaganda flowing.
Wright's reaction to racism is RACISM!
Obama would have us believe 2 wrongs DO make a right. Nonsense!
Obama would have us “understand and accept” that Wright's racism is the result of white racism, & therefore understandable & acceptable. Nonsense!
Currently in the USA, the largest & most vocal group of racists are Black, & their racism is primarily directed at whites.
Should white racists now be free to mount the pulpits & podiums to rant about the evil blacks? Should black Americans “understand and accept” this racism, because of black on white racism, present or past, real or imagined? Nonsense!
Obama is a follower, supporter, apologist, & advocate of a racist, so it is highly likely HE is also a racist. I would expect followers of David Duke to be racists, so why not the followers of Jeremiah Wright?
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