(Attention all race pimps:) INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER & MUSEUM GALA POSTPONED

Sit In Movement ^ | 2/01/10

[Libloather]

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER & MUSEUM GALA POSTPONED, SUNDAY EVENING UNITY SERVICE CANCELED
Free Ribbon Cutting Event Still Scheduled For Monday Morning

Due to inclement weather in the Greensboro area, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum has postponed its Gala Program at the Koury Convention Center. The Gala has been rescheduled for Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Koury Convention Center.

The Museum has also canceled its Celebration of Unity Service, scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 31, at the Greensboro Coliseum.

Monday's ribbon cutting ceremony will proceed as scheduled on February 1, at 8 a.m.

[Libloather]

Four Men, a Counter and Soon, Revolution
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Published: January 31, 2010

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The sign still says “F. W. Woolworth Co.” in bright gold letters running across the building on South Elm Street, just as it did 50 years ago. And within that two-story structure, the same stainless steel dumbwaiters and commercial appliances line the mirrored walls. The lunch counter, which includes a bowling-alley-long tabletop that must dwarf any currently in use, is largely intact; the original chrome and vinyl chairs are still mounted in the floor. This site is an authentic, half-century-old relic, a remnant of the mundane, the insignificant, the quaint.

But one of the achievements of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, which is opening Monday in that former Woolworth building, is that you begin to understand how such a place became a pivot in the greatest political movement of the 20th century.

In the museum’s 30,000 square feet of exhibition space, the mundane luncheonette reminds us that a cataclysmic social transformation took place over the right to be ordinary. For that was what was at stake — not subtle and arcane matters of law or obscure practices that challenged eccentric codes of behavior, but the basic acts of daily life: eating, drinking, sleeping, working, playing. It was here, at this luncheonette counter, that four 17-year-old freshmen at the all-black Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina — Joseph A. McNeil, Franklin E. McCain, David L. Richmond and Ezell A. Blair Jr. — arrived on Feb. 1, 1960, sat down and ordered some food.

The Hall of Shame at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C., which is lined with images of civil-rights-era violence.

The LA Lakers were not mentioned.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/arts/design/01museum.html

[HiTech RedNeck]

Nobody laments the passing of Jim Crow, but those who came to sweep it away were not satisfied to leave well enough alone once they succeeded. Instead they have managed to leave their sons and daughters in even worse shape than the bad old days.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, and they can thank the assent of the Republicans for the new equality, which they squandered on the even newer inequality from the Democrats.

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Glen Beck could do a year of shows exposing how the KGB infiltrated and co-opted the Civil Rights Movement as well as the Unions. He could highlight how most of the Leftist involved in Equal Rights and Collectivizing labor were actually nothing more than Communist agents of destruction of everyone’s freedoms in America.
Are you aware of the American History that is taught in the Gubermint Schools?

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A shrine to segregation. Hey, great idea. Let’s just continue to dwell on how bad things used to be. That way, even though people of any race can now eat anywhere they can afford, we can keep the fires of resentment burning for hundreds of years.

Much better than admitting that things are better now.

If anyone has any questions, just give a listen to “You Haven’t Done Nothin’” by Stevie Wonder.