Posted on 01/23/2009 11:14:00 AM PST by EveningStar
It might seem counterintuitive to highlight the DVD release of a biopic about one of the South's most powerful voices for segregation this close to the federal celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- not to mention days after the inauguration of our first black president. But "George Wallace," the 1997 TNT miniseries now available on DVD for the first time, is an enduring historical document and a testament to just how much progress America has made in recent decades.
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Directed by the late John (The Manchurian Candidate) Frankenheimer. Angelina Jolie played his wife.
Come on....
Who said “Segregation today, Segregation tomorrow, Segregation FOREVER.”?
Who said “I will never submit to fight beneath that banner with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.””????
Come on. Guess the racist? Guess the racist party.
I know FReepers won't let me down.
I believe it was last night he was on Glenn Beck. Seems a decent fellow, Gary Sinise. I like his acting too.
While conservatives like “B-1” Bob Dornan were marching for civil rights, DEMOCRATS like Wallace and Al Gore Sr. were standing in the doorway...
Democrat.
Wonder why? Could it be because no one wanted to promote the portrayal of a famous segregationalist who was a Democrat?
Good for Gary Sinise.
Yeppers!
Democrats wefe the party of segregation.
So who said the first quote “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation FOREVER?”
And who said ““I will never submit to fight beneath that banner with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.””?
;)
There’s also a group of people trying to draft him into running for Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat as a Republican candidate in ‘10.
Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), the appeasement-minded liberal icon who, among other things, tried to abolish Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as “relics of the Cold War” was also an outspoken segregationist.
I never saw the video, but I was on the campus of the University of Southern California when it was being shot. What caught my eye was the mid-1960’s cars that were parked in front of Bovard Auditorium.
Does Sinise live in Illinois??
Without having scanned the remainder of posts to this thread, I’m going to say “Robert Byrd.”
The first quote was George Wallace.
Yes.
Here’s another one:
“I don’t hate blacks. The day I said ‘segregation forever,’ I never said a thing that would upset a black person unless it was segregation. I never made fun of ‘em about inequality and all that kind of stuff. But my vehemence was against the federal government folks. I didn’t make people get mad against black people. I made ‘em get mad against the courts.”
I remember Gov. Wallace as very humble in his latter years, don’t think you will see that in any of our current group. I agreed with a lot of what he said during his presidential campaign (have come to realize there was great insight to his statement “there’s not a dimes worth of difference between the two parties) about and the abuse of the courts (what little good they have done is overshadowed by the harm). Hope they show the man he became, but they probably won’t.
Here’s another one: (ch-1 big government)
“I don’t hate blacks. The day I said ‘segregation forever,’ I never said a thing that would upset a black person unless it was segregation. I never made fun of ‘em about inequality and all that kind of stuff. But my vehemence was against the federal government folks. I didn’t make people get mad against black people. I made ‘em get mad against the courts.”
I remember Gov. Wallace as very humble in his latter years, don’t think you will see that in any of our current group. I agreed with a lot of what he said during his presidential campaign (have come to realize there was great insight to his statement “there’s not a dimes worth of difference between the two parties) about big government and the abuse of the courts (what little good they have done is overshadowed by the harm). Hope they show the man he became, but they probably won’t.
Were Southern Democrats of the ‘50s and ‘60s conservatives or liberals?
Both.
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