With bonus racism from LBJ.
Most “progressive” policies, such as gun control, and minimum wage, started out in life as a way to keep black folks down.
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With bonus racism from LBJ.
Most “progressive” policies, such as gun control, and minimum wage, started out in life as a way to keep black folks down.
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But that’s not what their teachers told them!
This will never fly with the editors of wikipedia.
Well, thank God we are no longer encumbered with William E. Miller, and instead are blessed with his constitutional scholar daughter, Stephanie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vddb_Nj4xaY
(NSFW)
Segregationist Democrat George Wallace, running as an independent, made a last stand in the old Confederacy but carried only five states, while Republican Richard Nixon, who had helped shepherd the 1957 Civil Rights Act through Congress, counted a number of Confederate states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee) among the 32 he carried.
I have a sliver of memory of that election. Having turned 8 that year (on Election Day, no less), there’s not much I recall – except this. There was a political taunt that made the rounds at the elementary school: “Nixon, Nixon is our man, throw Wallace in the garbage can!” More common was the obverse: “Wallace, Wallace is our man, throw Nixon in the garbage can!” Years later I learned there was a third candidate in that race.
(I lived in Louisiana at the time.)
YOU A RACISS
Just thought I’d get that out of the way…
As a matter of fact, I lived in Metairie, birthplace of David Duke, and suburb of New Orleans, birthplace of Mayor Ray Nagin. Hm, maybe there’s something to those voodoo curses…
Speaking of Mayor Nagin, if I’d been in the area when he made that “chocolate city” statement, i would have rounded up a bunch of friends and held a chocolate party. We’d bring milk chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, any color of chocolate we can come up with. There’s yer rainbow coalition.
I’ve bee reading ‘Unintended Consequences’ by John Ross. It’s primarily a gun culture book, for those who don’t know about the book. But one of the underlying topics is the Jim Crow Laws, and there’s an explanation of how many of the early gun laws were written to get guns out of the hands of A-A’s. And Mexicans too, I expect, out in the Southwest.
There’s also a running thread about how the Nazis took guns out of the hands of the Jews, then ultimately away from everyone in Germany. Again, to start with it was a racial thing, then a control thing.
I’m glad no one here would ever ramp up to a total control thing and try to take ALL the guns. After all, this is America dammit!