Deplorable ...

[non sequitur]

Originally Posted by Tex

The progress we've made in 50 years is apparently beyond you as well.

You say that like you're glad we made progress, while everyone knows that had you been around in the 60's, you'd be one of those yelling loudest that MLK was a communist. Our country has made progress with civil rights despite the efforts of people of your political ilk.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

You say that like you're glad we made progress, while everyone knows that had you been around in the 60's, you'd be one of those yelling loudest that MLK was a communist. Our country has made progress with civil rights despite the efforts of people of your political ilk.

Are you ever sober when you post on this site?

[Tex]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

You say that like you're glad we made progress, while everyone knows that had you been around in the 60's, you'd be one of those yelling loudest that MLK was a communist. Our country has made progress with civil rights despite the efforts of people of your political ilk.

Charming as always, sequitur.

[non sequitur]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Are you ever sober when you post on this site?

It's 10:00 a.m. I'll be sober for at least another hour and a half.

I"m sure that in hindsight, Tex and yourself would grudgingly admit that the civil rights movement was a good thing. But it's not a secret that the movement succeeded despite the best efforts of people with whom you align yourself politically. I know it's a hard pill to swallow, but the truth is often bitter.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

It's 10:00 a.m. I'll be sober for at least another hour and a half.

I"m sure that in hindsight, Tex and yourself would grudgingly admit that the civil rights movement was a good thing. But it's not a secret that the movement succeeded despite the best efforts of people with whom you align yourself politically. I know it's a hard pill to swallow, but the truth is often bitter.

In hindsight? Well, I was born 3 months before MLK was murdered, so it would have to be in hindsight. Go search my posts on MLK on Cougarboard and you will see that I have been nothing but complimentary of the good that MLK accomplished.

I have been far less sparing in my comments about his self-appointed successors in the movement, however.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

It's 10:00 a.m. I'll be sober for at least another hour and a half.

I"m sure that in hindsight, Tex and yourself would grudgingly admit that the civil rights movement was a good thing. But it's not a secret that the movement succeeded despite the best efforts of people with whom you align yourself politically. I know it's a hard pill to swallow, but the truth is often bitter.

I have never considered myself aligned with Southern Democrats. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else.

[non sequitur]

Forty years ago, people on the far right, who were otherwise good people, were decrying the civil rights movement as the greatest threat to our country next to communism. Hell, even Ezra Taft Benson campaigned for George Wallace. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see you as part of the crowd that marched on Selma.

[non sequitur]

Originally Posted by Tex

I have never considered myself aligned with Southern Democrats. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else.

So, it was just the southern democrats who thought MLK was a communist?

[Tex]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

Forty years ago, people on the far right, who were otherwise good people, were decrying the civil rights movement as the greatest threat to our country next to communism. Hell, even Ezra Taft Benson campaigned for George Wallace. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see you as part of the crowd that marched on Selma.

I don't know that it's really possible for any of us to know the kind of person we would be, were we to be born in that time. And it's pretty damned disingenuous to climb into your ivory tower and dish out judgment on those who did.

What I do know is how I feel about the issue now.

And anyway, given that I have been told more than once that I would've murdered those Arkansans at Mountain Meadows, your racist accusations are a little tame anyway. You haven't lived until you've accused me of being a murderer.

Nice try though, seq.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

Forty years ago, people on the far right, who were otherwise good people, were decrying the civil rights movement as the greatest threat to our country next to communism. Hell, even Ezra Taft Benson campaigned for George Wallace. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see you as part of the crowd that marched on Selma.

Well, my parents openly cried in front of me in 1978 when the blacks got the priesthood, so there was my influence as far as "race relations" go. Three of my best friends in my early childhood (before 6th grade) were Mexican, Jamaican and Indian. Yeah, I'm sure I would have been in Selma throwing produce.