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All-TigerNet [12579]
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Strom Thurmond was just featured on CNN's The March on
Aug 25, 2013, 11:25 PM
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Washington, We Were There". I am happy to say that Mr. Thurmond was portrayed exactly as he spent his life working so hard to be portrayed. This is to say he was accurately shown as having gone down on the wrong side of history.
I am white and was born in 1963 in South Carolina. I have always been ashamed that Thurmond is associated with Clemson and that he has an "institute" on campus. I am happy, however, that he is being shown for exactly what he was, a racist.
I had the great pleasure of seeing "The Butler" last night and it was a magnificent movie. I am glad that people that behaved like hateful fools, and later tried varnish their legacy, are being portrayed for exactly what they were, hatefu, bigoted, evil, fools. And Mr. Thurmond, not mentioned in the movie, but mentioned on the CNN 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, was one of the most notorious of the bigots.
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Oculus Spirit [83263]
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Don't be so hard on Strom. The overwhelming majority of
Aug 26, 2013, 5:13 AM
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his constiuents felt the same way and he did change finally. My friend Tom Turnipseed was another who changed. In the late 60s he went to work for George Wallace and traveled around the South setting up all white private schools in small towns when forced integration hit the public schools. In the 70s he grew into one of the South's leading spokesman for blacks and the underprivileged.
I remember integration well as I was in the 8th grade when it finally happened in Edgefield in 1970. At age 13, I was against integration also as I was slated to be the star of our all white basketball team and ended up just being part of the starting five with four blacks.
It was a crazy time but most whites in the South finally came around and changed for the better.
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Rock Defender [54]
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You are correct. Clearly there is still work to be done,
Aug 26, 2013, 10:30 AM
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but the level of progress in this area over the past 50 years is stunning, when you consider how slowly things had changed from the Ratification of the 13th Amendment until the Civil Rights Act.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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The work, left to be done, rests squarely on the shoulders
Aug 26, 2013, 11:28 AM
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of the black community.
lutz....work.
It's clear that, as a community, they don't want to pull the boot straps up. There's no advantage to acknowledging that they are no longer oppressed.
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Oculus Spirit [83263]
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Overwhelming majority of blacks do believe in hard
Aug 26, 2013, 1:05 PM
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work.
The black community does need to change in some areas, especially in who are anointed their leaders.
The white community needs some changes still also as your post is a perfect example.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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An example of what, exactly?
Aug 26, 2013, 1:22 PM
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That I'm sick and tired of hearing about how blacks are oppressed??
Do some work, in the black community, you ####### bleeding heart.
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Rock Defender [54]
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Says the man who has sharecroppers working his square
Aug 26, 2013, 2:13 PM
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foot gardens.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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HEY! She was white!
Aug 26, 2013, 2:29 PM
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Anywhose...Don't sharecrop with her anymore. The beds were constructed at her place.
This year, I had a few wash tubs, with squash and tomato. Neither did any good. I don't think the rain helped much.
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Oculus Spirit [83263]
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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The vast majority of them are lazy and entitled.***
Aug 26, 2013, 3:25 PM
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Oculus Spirit [83263]
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boom***
Aug 26, 2013, 3:36 PM
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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I see that you are done here.
Aug 26, 2013, 3:43 PM
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Your opinion shrivels.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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And, no they don't. You act as if I have never had the
Aug 26, 2013, 2:39 PM
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unpleasurable opportunity to work with them. A hard days work would bury you. What do you know about it? That assertion is your biased opinion and, nothing more.
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Ring of Honor [32958]
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LOL. Kick him in the shin.***
Aug 26, 2013, 2:50 PM
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Oculus Spirit [83263]
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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What do you want me to say?
Aug 26, 2013, 3:41 PM
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You have no idea what work is. Neither do they. I have witnessed it, first hand.
They are laaaaaaazzzzzyyyyyy.
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Oculus Spirit [83263]
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Re: What do you want me to say?***
Aug 26, 2013, 5:47 PM
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How can you make a general statement about millions of
Aug 26, 2013, 7:24 PM
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people? Don't you have any guilty conscious when you do that? It really kills your credibility when you make a sweeping statement such as that. You can't be taken seriously.
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What ever you say.
Aug 26, 2013, 8:36 PM
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It's from general observations. I suppose next you'll tell me that I shouldn't believe my lying eyes.
Laaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy
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Re: Strom Thurmond was just featured on CNN's The March on
Aug 26, 2013, 7:12 AM
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A certain appendage of Strom's certainly wasn't rassist...but he realized he was on the "wrong side of history" and had the first black staffer on Capitol Hill.
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do not put thy rod in thy staff***
Aug 26, 2013, 7:15 AM
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Re: do not put thy rod in thy staff- uhh he didnt
Aug 26, 2013, 8:53 AM
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follw that advice. what about the maid?
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While accurate, one has to take into account his change over
Aug 26, 2013, 8:15 AM
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the years. Later in life he became respected by the African-American community for his excellent constituent services on their behalf. I think Strom is a great example of how people can change.
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Let me guess,
Aug 26, 2013, 8:19 AM
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CNN didn't mention that part, right?
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It would not be in context if they were trying to illustrate
Aug 26, 2013, 10:32 AM
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the climate of that time.
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So you believe everything you see?
Aug 26, 2013, 8:34 AM
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In The Butler, the things that were portrayed to happen to his family never happened. Liberal Hollywood dramatic license!
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It's easier just to believe everything you see.***
Aug 26, 2013, 8:36 AM
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I read this, and now I believe it wholeheartedly.***
Aug 26, 2013, 8:41 AM
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Oculus Spirit [83263]
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But I'm sure they happened to many black families so that
Aug 26, 2013, 8:45 AM
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would make it historically accurate, just not accurate for Eugene Allen.
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All-TigerNet [12579]
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No, it just happened to millions of others. Real film
Aug 26, 2013, 9:16 AM
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footage doesn't lie. Who am I going to believe, you or my eyes.
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Heisman Winner [120447]
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So you really believe Oprah when she said
Aug 26, 2013, 9:52 AM
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Millions were lynched?
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110%er [7980]
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oprah said millions were lynched?***
Aug 26, 2013, 11:32 AM
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I didn't say millions were lynched. I said millions were
Aug 26, 2013, 11:37 AM
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treated the way life was portrayed in the movie. I have seen pictures of the result of lynchings and very large numbers of them did take place. It is unbelievable that even one of something that horrible would take place, but many, many did take place.
But back to the millions, a person doesn't have to be lynched to have what their life could have been and their hopes and dreams robbed from them. The whole setup was disgraceful and I blame the federal government for even letting it begin to happen in the first place. The feds finally came in and straightened things out and did away with segregation, but the fact that segregation laws were ever allowed to get off the ground in the first place rests with the U.S. Government.
Southern states and politicians should have been dealt with in a heavy-handed manner when it came to denial of civil rights and should have been dealt with from day one. You can't have a nation operate like that, let alone a great nation. And certainly not a nation that claimed a constitution such as ours.
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Re: Strom Thurmond was just featured on CNN's The March on
Aug 26, 2013, 10:22 AM
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I live in Edgefield Co. , please ride into downtown Edgefield and ask the people (white and black) what they think of ol' Strom!
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All-TigerNet [12579]
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I imagine you are saying they think very highly of him? Is
Aug 26, 2013, 11:42 AM
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it because life is so great and proserous in Edgefield County. Or maybe they know enough about Strom to not think very highly of him? Not sure where you're going with your post, but I can tell you that anybody can think what they want to of him, but facts show him to be a hypocritical bigot. Maybe he tried to varnish over this in later years to leave a better legacy, but the fact remains that politicians like Thurmond were very costly to the lives of others and also created a climate in which terrible terrorist acts, such as the church bombing could take place.
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Re: Strom Thurmond was just featured on CNN's The March on
Aug 26, 2013, 2:19 PM
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I wonder when CNN will run the same type program on ol KKK Sen Byrd from WV?
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