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The Rewriting of history

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Friday, September 3, 2010 1:54 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Some of us remember when Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) came under fire earlier this year for issuing a proclamation to honor Confederate History Month without even mentioning slavery, Mississippi Governor Barbour was among the first to defend him. "It's trying to make a big deal out of something that didn't matter for diddly," Barbour said.

Well, he’s taking it further:
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Today, Human Events posted a new interview with "the most powerful man in Republican politics," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. Asked directly about Nixon's "southern strategy," Barbour was cagey, saying, "There's no question that in the fifties and probably the sixties there was some of that." He claimed, however, that "the people who led the change of parties" were part of a younger generation who "went to integrated schools" and recognized that segregation was "indefensible."
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BARBOUR: There's no question that in the fifties and probably the sixties there was some of that. At the same time, the people who led the change of parties in the South, just as I mentioned earlier, was my generation. My generation who went to integrated schools — I went to integrated college, um, never thought twice about it. And it was the old Democrats who had fought for segregation so hard. By my time, people realized that was the past, it was indefensible, it wasn't gonna be that way any more. So the people who really changed the South from Democrat to Republican was a different generation from those who fought integration. In fact, I can never forget — I mentioned we elected these two young congressman. We were just itching to get a senator, and one of my friend said, "Haley, we're just a few funerals away." You had some of the old crowd that just wasn't going to give up on the Democratic Party because it was the party of the civil war, segregation.
Barbour's version of history is so grossly distorted that it's tough to decide where to start. This deception is particularly rich coming from Barbour, who has always worn his roots on his sleeve. Barbour says that he was raised an "Eastland Democrat," but fails to mention that Jim Eastland once said that "segregation is not discrimination," but rather "the law of God." Barbour boasts that his generation didn't think about race because "they went to integrated schools," but he enrolled at Ole Miss just a few years after the first black student at the university, James Meredith, whose enrollment led to violent rioting and who was frequently harassed on campus. Barbour completely glosses over the issue of Nixon's "southern strategy," even though he personally worked on the campaign.

http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201009010001

Well Barbour was born in 1947. I was born one year later. He probably graduated from high school in 1965, as I did in 1966. I marched for Civil Rights...there is NO WAY integration was big in the South, I guarantee it. Some facts:

“We went to integrated schools, I went to integrated college, never thought twice about it”. Maybe he never thought twice about it because he never SAW a Black person in college: He went to Yazoo High School in Mississippi. Mississippi schools DID NOT INTEGRATE until the Supreme Court forced them to, in 1970, well after both of us graduated from high school. He went to the University of Mississippi,. The first Black man to go to that university was James Meredity, who transferred in in 1962 and graduated in 1963; his enrollment led to violent rioting and who was frequently harassed on campus.

Barbour probably went to that university around 1965 most likely. The next African-American transferred in 1964, the same year that school admitted their first Black freshman. If he started college after high school, he graduated around 1969, by which time Mississippi University had a total of 39 Black students, out of 5,000 students. Yeah, it was integrated...only literally, and only after having been dragged kicking and screaming into integration. A freshman was expelled in 1968 from that school for protesting discrimination there. Damn, it was sure all over by the time Barbour got there!

“Never thought twice about it” may well be true; he didn’t have to think about it, he rarely saw a Black student, most likely. Even now, his sons don’t go to the same “integrated” public school he did, he put them in an all-white private school, Manchester Academy, which graduated its first Black student in 1996, the year before one of Barbour’s sons graduated.

So he can say he went to an integrated school and an integrated college...but is that really true? Does ONE STUDENT mean the place is integrated?

As to “There's no question that in the fifties and probably the sixties there was some of that”—uhhh, there was a LOT of that, so much so that it carried on well into the sixties and in some cases the seventies, and we lived right THROUGH the civil rights battle, Haley, you and I were right there while it was beginning, was happening; was being fought;I know, I remember. I guess I remember better than he does.

Despite how Barbour, and others, have tried to rewrite history, the fact is that the Dixiecrats were against segregation until the Civil Rights Act. They then switched en mass to the Republican Party. Barbour's claim that Democrats are the ones who fought segregation is incredibly misleading. Although it's a popular argument among southern conservatives, particularly when they're feeling defensive about race, the fact remains that the Civil Rights Act was passed by Democratic majorities in Congress and signed by a Democratic president. The real division among lawmakers was geographic — it was southern conservatives who bitterly opposed the bill.

The Democratic Party's embrace of civil rights led some “Dixiecrats”, like Strom Thurmond, to flee for the GOP. In 1964, Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater — who opposed the Civil Rights Act — won only five states outside his home state of Arizona: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. None of them went for the Republican four years earlier.

This rewriting of history is like so many other things going on right now. It’s like the Republicans have understood they can say anything, no matter what, it and won’t be challenged, it will be swallowed by their listeners and nobody will stand up to challenge them. Well, I was there, I’m the same age as Barbour, and he’s lying through his teeth, THAT’s a fact.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Friday, September 3, 2010 2:08 PM

KANEMAN


How are you cleaning pelicans? With all this time on your hands....i smell a dirty old liberal rat....Just one girl's opinion

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Saturday, September 4, 2010 6:47 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


This rewriting of history, especially when it comes to civil rights history, is something that's occurring quite a bit currently on the right. It's like they don't want the responsibility THEY OWN for racial problems, and hope the population's memory is short enough (or there are enough young people who don't know the difference, and/or others won't speak up to call them on it) for it to work.

So far, it seems to be working; haven't seen any leaders calling them out on their rewriting of history; but then again, don't see anyone calling the right out on the rewriting of the Bush administration history, either. Once again, they know they can say anything, bald-faced lie or not, and nobody will call them out. What a bunch of wooses we are...


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