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Bxgirl, I think you should be more aware that while the Mississippi Citizen’s Councils may have ‘stopped the KKK’ they were partners in the same war against Black people. They just used different tactics. They waged economic war against ‘uppity’ Blacks and any fool whites who may have wished to help them. They had them fired or forced them out of business (if self-employed).
So assholes like this Barbour guy and his predecessors fancied themselves the intellectuals of segregation, too hi-faluting to actually lynch somebody, but with the same goal, to keep white power the way of the world.
“In an interview with the conservative Weekly Standard, Barbour gave credit to the Citizens Council for keeping the KKK out of his hometown, Yazoo City. “You heard of the Citizens Councils?” said Barbour. “Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you’d lose it. If you had a store, they’d see nobody shopped there. We didn’t have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City.”
So when he says the above, he’s a flat out liar, because the Councils had a cordial relationship with the Klan and they worked together as needed. And in fact it’s exactly what he says in his second to last sentence that the CC was doing.
So either you believe that the CC’s were protecting ‘our Negros’ from the KKK, or you don’t. And they sure weren’t fighting the KKK, in spite of what he says.
And of course he has a long history of racially insensitive statements… and check out his brother.
Bxgrl, I think one would have to investigate as to how much integration was going on in Yazoo City under the Citizen’s Council, which in other cities and towns, was just the Klan with business suits. It’s commendable that they didn’t allow the Klan, or demonstrations, but if they were also inforcing segregation and Jim Crow Laws, they were no better than the Klan, just less flamboyant and in your face. I suspect that’s the case.
In any event, HB’s assertion that the Civil Rights Movement was no big thing, and worse, that it was all said and done, and integration was achieved when he was coming of age, which would have been Mississippi, of all places, in the early 1960’s, is absolutely ridiculous.
Bxgirl, I think you should be more aware that while the Mississippi Citizen’s Councils may have ‘stopped the KKK’ they were partners in the same war against Black people. They just used different tactics. They waged economic war against ‘uppity’ Blacks and any fool whites who may have wished to help them. They had them fired or forced them out of business (if self-employed).
So assholes like this Barbour guy and his predecessors fancied themselves the intellectuals of segregation, too hi-faluting to actually lynch somebody, but with the same goal, to keep white power the way of the world.
“In an interview with the conservative Weekly Standard, Barbour gave credit to the Citizens Council for keeping the KKK out of his hometown, Yazoo City. “You heard of the Citizens Councils?” said Barbour. “Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you’d lose it. If you had a store, they’d see nobody shopped there. We didn’t have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City.”
So when he says the above, he’s a flat out liar, because the Councils had a cordial relationship with the Klan and they worked together as needed. And in fact it’s exactly what he says in his second to last sentence that the CC was doing.
So either you believe that the CC’s were protecting ‘our Negros’ from the KKK, or you don’t. And they sure weren’t fighting the KKK, in spite of what he says.
And of course he has a long history of racially insensitive statements… and check out his brother.
That was the information I was looking for to put it into context. All I’ve read was his commnet and the reaction. Thanks rf.
Bxgrl, I think one would have to investigate as to how much integration was going on in Yazoo City under the Citizen’s Council, which in other cities and towns, was just the Klan with business suits. It’s commendable that they didn’t allow the Klan, or demonstrations, but if they were also inforcing segregation and Jim Crow Laws, they were no better than the Klan, just less flamboyant and in your face. I suspect that’s the case.
In any event, HB’s assertion that the Civil Rights Movement was no big thing, and worse, that it was all said and done, and integration was achieved when he was coming of age, which would have been Mississippi, of all places, in the early 1960’s, is absolutely ridiculous.
denton, baking powder looses its freshness after a few weeks because it absorbs moisture and fails to act the way it is meant to.
Organic baking powder would be what you refer to.
Edging isn’t just for the gays!
Bxgrl,
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/12/barbour-mistakes-black-for-white/68328/
JB, I know what it means hence my DIBS reference – ie his edging definition or landscaping one
Xing doesn’t have a bag like that. I thought by the hair he was Latino but that bag looks like ones used by EUROTRASH.
Edging is fun.
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There is such a thing as too thin and too rich.
poppycock, there is no such thing as too rich
*rob*