‘I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever’

good god man.

whats your point?

I am just re-editing a paper on Martin Luther King, Jr. and am coming across all of this stuff that I had forgotten. It's just hard for me to believe that this wasn't that long ago. Not that things are peachy now, but a lot less "tumultuous" then 50 years ago.

there are still a lot of people who still feel that way.

and we already have de-facto segregation in most cities anyway.

yes. I agree with that. However, most people are hardly as vocal about it. And, although things are not much better, it seems like it was so much worse back then. People's lives hinged on this issue. Now it seems to be things like abortion,evolution and homosexuality.

The town I live in is has the races literally separated by the railroad tracks. I live not too far from where Nat Turner made his rebellion.

Getting rid of institutionalized issues like actual segregation breaks down the barriers that legally prohibit minorities from participating equally in society, but it does make them actually do so. Nor does it make people of different colors want to live near each other, eat dinner together, etc.

2 halves.

Getting rid of one half is still great.

I have stood in the doorway where he said it. I have stood in the spot where Jeff Davis was inaugurated President of the Confederacy. I have driven over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I have visited 16th St. Baptist Church and Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

Such is the duality of the Southern thing.

Have you taken the Emmitt Till tour? Did you see the documentary on him?

I'm surprised you didn't re-declare Southern independence.

Documentary, yes; Tour, no...that's in Mississippi...we're light years ahead of them

Haha. Ok, how about a georgia specific question. Have you ever read the "Southern Manifesto"?

Not sure, you mean the Strom Thurmond thing?

Ironically, in 1971, after a particularly racially charged campaign, Wallace began backpedaling, and he opened up Alabama politics to minorities at a rate faster than most Northern states or the Federal Government. And Wallace spent the rest of his life trying to explain away his racist past, and in 1982 won his last term in office with over 90% of the black vote.

-P.Hood

A campaign that was recently heralded as THE MOST NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY. It's the one where they talked about "The Block Vote"

Oh, and remember kiddies (Borg, C-man, et al, listen up) Wallace was DEMOCRAT, and proud of it.

Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well he may be a fool but he's our fool
If they think they're better than him they're wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that's where I made this song

We talk real funny down here
We drink too much and we laugh too loud
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town
And we're keepin' the niggers down

We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol' boys from Tennessee
And colleges men from LSU
Went in dumb. Come out dumb too
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues
And they're keepin' the niggers down

We're rednecks, rednecks
And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
We're rednecks, we're rednecks
And we're keeping the niggers down

Now your northern nigger's a Negro
You see he's got his dignity
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the nigger free

Yes he's free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he's free to be put in a cage on the South-Side of Chicago
And the West-Side
And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis
And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston
They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around
Keepin' the niggers down

See, here.