“Victims of YOU and ME, and every Whitey out there. No matter what steps a predominantly white establishment took to secure and guarantee equal civil rights for ALL members of society, it was never enough. Never enough for the Malcom X’s, never enough for the NAACP, never enough for the Urban League, and certainly not enough for the liberal media who led with their bleeding hearts, we as a society were taught that inside every white person, there was a Klansman hiding and eager to jump out, that a railroad tie was never ‘just’ a railroad tie, it was part of a creosote soaked cross waiting to be hoisted on the lawn of a black church, or the yard of a black family, didn’t you get the memo? WE WHITE FOLK ARE ALL RACISTS!”
“And the greatest lie foisted over these past 50+ years is the mythology that the Democrat Party is somehow the savior of blacks and all minorities when THEY were the ones who started the Klan in the first place, THEY were the ones who were turning fire hoses and police dogs on civil rights marchers in Alabama and elsewhere across the South, THEY were the ones standing in the school house doors refusing to admit black students that sought an equal education with white students, THEY were the ones who filibustered the Civil Rights Act, THEY were the ones who embraced a former Klansman (Robert Byrd of WV) and turned him into a political icon, and of course the Democrats had the audacity and sheer gall to accuse Republicans of being biased towards blacks, women and other minorities.”
There are possibly a couple of points in paragraph two that could be argued, as to their complete truth, but in general it speaks to the historical issues of the time.
Boy howdy, those two paragraphs need a whole lot of repetition, about as much as the repetition it took to pull off the “story” that Republican’s are racist. Folks, in defense of the dems in the south at the time civil rights marches were going on there were reasons galore for the, how should I put it, resistance to integration by the white population. I don’t need to repeat what those points of resistance were about, but they were in general valid.
Validity be damned, If I’m not mistaken, the Federal Government ended up being the “force” that apparently didn’t stop racism, but forced integration on a resistant community that was IMHO not quite ready for what integration would soon reveal. The validity of the reasons for resistance. Remaining comments self censored.
Racist disclaimer: I am not now nor have I ever been. But I can speak to why some are, were, or may become.