Let’s wait and see, shall we?
One thing we both can agree on is neither you nor I were there so we really don’t know for sure. Now that two people have popped up saying they were there and participated in the march; the issue now becomes who is right, two eye-witnesses or the present manager of the town’s historical society, who, btw, wasn’t there either in 1963.
One thing’s for sure, this story will continue to grow and more and more people will eventually speak up and say yea or nay, one way or the other.
Frankly, Mitt Romney’s statement about seeing his father march with MLK is so minor, especially when he clarified he was only speaking figuratively. How much worse is that than Huckabee’s outright lies about his actions as a political leader in Arkansas that prove he’s a liberal in disguise? At least with Huckabee, the threat of another Jimmy Carter with a Bill Clinton charm is a very real danger. The same cannot be said about Romney, who bears a terrible burden of needing to be a moral example for the sake of his faith.
I suspect a picture will eventually be found to validate the walk, but the fact remains George Romney was a fierce advocate for civil rights during a time it was extremely unpopular among many whites, especially those “Christians” in the South who did their best to keep the black man down.
My, how the kettle calls the pot black!
Let me know which is found first. That picture or some archaeological evidence supporting th BOM.
By the way. According to some here, that was a bigoted statement.
That issue's already been resolved. See post 193. News reports from the time say that Romney did not appear on the June 23 march, and King did not appear at the June 29 thing.
Mitt's "clarification" only creates bigger problems now that his 1978 statement that HE marched with Martin Luther King in the streets of Detroit has turned up. He now admits that never happened. If he wasn't speaking "figuratively" then, and it's too specific to be read that way, it's absurd to claim he didn't really mean it when he repeated essentially the same thing in 2007. Mitt was a liar in 1978, and apparently he hadn't changed 29 years later.