Posted on 10/20/2010 8:50:32 PM PDT by kristinn
Frak the NAACP.
This is because: (1) They are all postal supervisors in a downtown postal facility, (2) You are more dangerous than they are, or (3) There is safety in groups!
‘I urge anyone who has any sympathy to the NAACP of the past to read more about its early days and those involved with its creation (including Oswald Garrison Villard and Florence Kelley). The NAACP is now and has always been a stain on America.’
Well, it wasn’t so bad when Barry Goldwater helped found the Phoenix branch, before he was elected to the city council there.
I’m thinking there’s a lawsuit here somewhere.
This is because: (1) They are all postal supervisors in a downtown postal facility, (2) You are more dangerous than they are, or (3) There is safety in groups!
(4) They're buying! :-)
CQ DX.
Ping
Sign me - FReeper since 1998
Barry Goldwater is a hero of mine. I still fondly remember my "AuH20" sticker from the 1964 campaign. Interestingly, I just re-read Conscience of a Conservative a week or so ago. He did quit the NAACP (just as I did when I realized what a corrupt outfit it was).
I would surmise that some of Goldwater's views may not have been embraced by the NAACP:
"It may be just or wise or expedient for Negro children to attend the same schools as white children, but they do not have a civil right to do so which is protected by the Federal Constitution or which is enforceable by the Federal Government." He subscribes to the "objectives" of the Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision, Goldwater says, but "I am not prepared to impose that judgment of mine on the people of Mississippi or South Carolina."
I don't have his book handy at present but I believe those quotes (taken from a Time magazine article on line) are what I recall from the "Civil Rights" chapter of the book.
Sign me - n00b, rookie, neophyte, wet-behind-the-ears. :-)
At my advancing age (with white hair), I'll embrace any of those terms since they make me feel so young. (I just had to ping onyx on this since she knows about me, an old fuddy-duddy). Heh, heh, heh.
Thank you-—great post!
I say we ignore the NAACP like anything else that has passed into obsolescence.
I thought your comment read the magic horn has come off their unicorn. I guess that works just as well.
‘I don’t have his book handy at present but I believe those quotes (taken from a Time magazine article on line) are what I recall from the “Civil Rights” chapter of the book.’
Well ‘The Conscience of a Conservative’ was in large part written by William F Buckley, Jr. and Brent Bozell, Jr. and published in 1960. I get the impression that the quote you cited was likely written to explain Barry’s vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, or possibly written in anticipation of such a bill.
And without your ping, I would have otherwise missed your stupendous post!
YOU SAID IT ALL, ELOQUENTLY!!!!
I voted for Carter in 1976...my last gasp of sorta liberalism though i did not think of it that way
Just like Obama.
If it WERE racism, we'd have voted for Carter just because he was white, and against Obama, just because he was black.
BTW -- "Barack Obama is Kenyan for Jimmy Carter".
Cheers!
Yeah. I’m not sure his kind belong on FR! :P
We've never met, I've been around here long enough to know you from you writings and you activism in representing Free Republic and fellow Conservatives.
As it is my right to call you anything I want, let me just say...
“Thank you for being a true American Patriot”.
I am proud to be a Freeper and stand, unashamedly as such with all my fellow Freepers. I wear the scorn of the lefties, the commies, the whole America hating lot of ‘em, as a badge of honor.
While I don't give one whit what the naacp thinks, they have besmirched your HONOR, and by extension, the honor of ALL Freepers. Please sue the bas**rds, as long as that wouldn't waste too much of the precious time you devote to the cause.
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