Posted on 12/19/2013 3:09:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It was not the clarification of the legal system that established civil rights for the Americans of African descent that brought about great unhappiness among the newly empowered, it was the systematic stripping away of their economic freedom and the wrecking of the moral compasses that had guided these same grandchildren of former slaves for generations before. One kind of economic chains were simply exchanged for another, and the bondage took on a much more pernicious form, in which failure was encouraged and even celebrated, and a phony kind of “self-esteem” was made to be the ideal to strive for. The downtrodden became their own prison guards, making it some kind of misplaced “race pride” that eschewed the adoption of the ways of success.
A matter of incidental arithmetic - the size of the current Federal debt, some $17 TRILLION, is almost the same amount spent upon all the “Great Society” programs since they were instituted by LBJ and a Democrat majority in the wake of the death of John F. Kennedy.
JFK was just about the last of the fiscally conservative Democrats to serve in the White House. Not that there had ever been that many before.
So, he shares an observation and he’s full of hate. It’s a wonder this Chloe Melas remembers the segregated South better than Roberts, since she appears to be in her 20’s or 30’s.
Then, he quotes scripture and is a bigot.
I knew an old southern black woman who told me that poor people in the south were too busy being poor to be terribly racist. She said that they really didn’t encounter much racism from neighbors and only really saw it in the bigger towns and cities. She also taught me the term “Down North” about coming north and finding a whole different kind of racism that came with a smile on its face.
I met her when I was very young and she was a coworker of my mother. I talked to her in depth when I was 30ish and I was a trustee from the county jail (drunk driving) and I was working at the senior center.
I love talking with one of the old gentlemen in my church.
He grew up in a very rural part of NC in the late 30’s and was a young teen during WW II.
He grew up very poor and his family were sharecroppers. He talks about the sharecroppers who were both black & white, the land owners and the people who lived in the small towns.
Saturday afternoon all the sharecroppers drove their mule drawn wagons to the nearest small town to buy supplies.
He said the end of WW II was the death of sharecroppers. The land owners were able to buy tractors as factories started cranking out civilian products. Hundreds of black and white families were forced off the land.
Anyway, I’ve driven through the town and tried to imagine it full of mule drawn wagons.
Bet before the news cycle ends tomorrow, NSA finds child porn on his computer… /s
I think it is another Paula Deen debacle if we don’t try to stop it
Chloe Melas is a liar. That's not what he said.
"Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”
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“He clearly knows nothing about gay people or the majority of Louisianans – and Americans – who support legal recognition for loving and committed gay and lesbian couples.”
Majority in Louisiana? LOL
I live in Louisiana, and I beg to differ!
He’s just saying what he saw — the lefties always have a problem with truth.
He should quit while he’s ahead.
No that’s not what he said. Retards.
True and they are trying to pile on now. They are looking for anything they can to impugn him. Because he just skewered their acts with logic.
Paula Deen didn’t have 10% of the supporters that this gentleman has. Remember, this is the highest-rated television show in the history of cable. PERIOD. Someone is going to pick this show up if A & E is stupid enough to drop them. Glenn Beck has already offered them a home and others will no doubt get in line behind him. How many signatures does the main petition have already? 3 million?
The majority of discriminatory behavior was in the larger towns and cities, not in the rural areas.
Notice how GLAAD claims to speak for the majority of Louisiana’s, like most of them support homosexual marriage, etc.... Also notice how they will decide who speaks in a Christian fashion? They imply that it is not Christian to point out their sin. Christians have been quiet to long, I am glad Phil spoke out, now I pray the family does not back down.
The headline takes ONE word he said and surrounds it with fiction LOL!
LOL. Duck Commander (not Duck Dynasty, that’s A&E) sales must be through the roof, so Phil (being the good businessman he is) is doubling down!
Author lives in a dream world, it was the ENTITLEMENT and WELFARE STATE that he was being critical of, not the ‘civil rights era.’
But, right, typical liberal blinders projecting what they WISHED he said vs what he ACTUALLY said.
Mild comments compared to the insipid comments Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton not to speak of Rv. Wright and Calypso Louis FArrakand blurt out..
THEN you have comical cartoonish lies Barry Half-White inflicts on “US”...
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