Posted on 09/08/2001 7:18:43 PM PDT by Utah Girl
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I was reading a musty old transcript of some attorney's interview of one of Judge Minor Wisdom (I think) some months ago. If the Democrat senators voted against the Civil Rights bill, I think that had more to do with their cranking the unrest as part of the 60's gramscian Revolution (of which the Civil Rights struggle was only a part) than it did actual sentiment and smarts of Southerners.
It's as if GOP votes in favor of abort legislation actually reflected the views of the constituents who voted them in based on their "personal" pro-life convictions, in other words.
In any case, I'm of the opinion that the North (as always) talks and votes a good game but likes to keep the black folks at a distance while southerners are more apt to treat them like real people and take them into their homes. The worst examples of racism I've seen since living in the South have been courtesy of transplant Yanks and blacks themselves who've been brainwashed by the hateful faction that usurped King and killed Malcolm.
She knows that and we know that, but the reporter, who grew up in the same town as Dr. Rice, doesn't know that. She tries to get that point across to him in several instances throughout the article. Here are a couple of gems from the article. They point out all that is wrong with liberals and the Democrat party:
Rice herself voted for a Democrat in the first presidential election in which she was eligible, casting her ballot for Jimmy Carter in 1976. She voted for Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980, largely out of distress with what she considered naive statements by Carter about the Soviet Union. In 1984 Hart's farsighted military reform agenda attracted her, although by then, Blacker says, it was clear to him, from joint appearances on arms control panels, that she was "more comfortable" in the Republican Party.
It was also clear to another Stanford colleague, Russia expert Michael McFaul, who remembers Rice telling him she opposed gun control and even gun registration because Bull Connor could have used it to disarm her father and others who patrolled Titusville in 1963. "For me as a liberal, pro-gun control person, it really hit me over the head," McFaul says. "I remember thinking, 'Who are we as white liberals to respond?' "
Rice says it was the issue of race that repelled her from the Democratic Party for good – for reasons that echo the lessons she draws from her family narrative. She remembers watching the 1984 Democratic National Convention that nominated Walter Mondale for president, and recoiling at what seemed to her an endless refrain of appeals to "women, minorities and the poor, which basically means helpless people and the poor."
"If I heard it one more time!" she says, still fuming. "I decided I'd rather be ignored than patronized."
Well, I guess I was here first. Still, you got me pulled for spurious reasons about three years ago ... with yawps over perceived (but quite wrong) anti-semitic references to Hillary's thick thighs and her pseudo-Jewishness.
If you don't recall your bleatings to JR as to your grand sniffing out of 'anti-zoggery', ah well ... so it goes.
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