Posted on 07/31/2020 9:55:37 AM PDT by karpov
“And I say … segregation today … segregation tomorrow … segregation forever.”
Fifty-seven years ago, the newly sworn-in Democrat governor of Alabama, George Wallace, delivered those words in his inaugural address.
In other words: George Wallace, who was a product of a political party that built its political power by supporting every imaginable policy that divided Americans by race, was at it again. Using the momentary pulpit that was a governor’s inaugural to play the race card — again.
Yesterday there was a new George Wallace. He appeared in an Atlanta church to eulogize the late Democratic Congressman John Lewis, Lewis a certifiable hero of the 1960s civil rights movement.
There were, in fact, three former presidents there, including George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. But it was former President Barack Obama and Obama alone who chose to use the literal pulpit to divide by race. Among things said by the former president were these gems:
George Wallace may be gone. But we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.
We may no longer have to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar in order to cast a ballot, but even as we sit here, there are those in power, who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision — even undermining the postal service in the run-up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick.
Say what? First, the protests in question have hardly been peaceful.
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This shows the complete lack of class of Barack Obama to turn a eulogy into a political rally! John Lewis was a Representative in the House. He served with honor. To dishonor him in this manner smells to high heaven. How would Obama feel if someone did this to his legacy?
This IS his legacy.
I don’t recall having said that, though if putting Gov. Wallace on the ticket would’ve helped Ted the Swimmer, he’d have done it.
But it’s true, in 1976, Carter was most everything Wallace was, minus the baggage and the wheelchair. It’s remarkable how the media covered up or ignored Carter’s racist record.
As an aside, I think had Wallace not been shot, he probably could’ve gotten the Dem nomination in 1972 and/or 1976. Given that by then, even with a Southern “bigot” as the standard bearer, Blacks had been so radicalized and the rest threatened that if they didn’t vote Demonrat, well, that would mean they “weren’t Black”, or would get in big trouble.
If I’m not mistaken, the high-water mark for Black support as a % for a Republican nominee post-1960 was Gerald Ford in 1976 (something like 12-14%). There was a website chart that showed what it was, but I have no idea where it is. I’ll bet with Wallace in 1976 against Ford, Ford might’ve been able to get closer to 15-20% of the Black vote (I think Ford would’ve won the race). Had he been running in 1964 or 1966 against Wallace, he would’ve probably gotten a majority of the Black vote. Just showed how radicalized the Black vote became in a short period.
Good Point!
They leave out the inconvenient historical fact that George Wallace RETURNED to the RAT party after his failed third party bid, and was in fact welcomed back with open arms, repeatedly winning re-election as Governor of Alabama on the RAT ticket in the 70s and 80s.
Pesky little things, facts like that.
There was nothing racissss about the southern strategy, that’s another lie that never gets countered.
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