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Old 12-11-2010, 10:44 AM   #61
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<snip>* I spent a few years in the Deep South, when integration was still the law of the land (early 50's).
I learned all about Democrats, at that time.
I did support Clinton for President, because he was experienced at running things (former Governor),
and smart (a former Rhodes Scholar).
Was this a typo/brain fart ?

I don't understand, unless you are exquisitely fine-cutting your words.
Brown vs Board of Education was 1954, just as an example
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Old 12-12-2010, 03:01 PM   #62
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Integration was the law, but it was not fully integrated into society. We still had "colored" entrances and water fountains and such.

This was before all the rest of the civil rights acts, and activities.

Johnson was not a president I really admired, but in the area of civil rights legislation, he was an amazing champion - he left the Northern liberals with their mouths catching fly's, on this.

All the more amazing, was that he was from a former Confederate state (Texas).
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Old 12-12-2010, 03:42 PM   #63
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Old 12-13-2010, 12:03 PM   #64
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To Monster and Foot Foot Foot, who replied to my question of why IOD would even post this picture, and to all of you contributors-- Wow! I understand why now! What an excellent lot of thought-provoking conversation was stimulated by this image! What a great amount of history was recalled by it! I hope school kids will go on this site and read what all of you have to say! It sure points out the importance of knowing history and understanding it! I am impressed with all of the thoughtful, intelligent comments made by a group I am pleased to be a part of!
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Old 12-13-2010, 12:20 PM   #65
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Old 12-14-2010, 09:29 AM   #66
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What a great amount of history was recalled by it invented in response to it!
FTFY.

I mean, seriously, you had the tone *almost* perfect, but I would have given you a couple of extra points if you'd properly classified KKK New Guy and Adak as engaging in creative, not historical, writing.
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Old 12-14-2010, 11:49 AM   #67
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Holy shit, I think that is the first post I've seen of yours with words, John.
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Old 12-15-2010, 12:13 AM   #68
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I mean, seriously, you had the tone *almost* perfect, but I would have given you a couple of extra points if you'd properly classified KKK New Guy and Adak as engaging in creative, not historical, writing.
Not creative writing, like everyone relating first person experiences, it's perspective. What the writer took away from what they saw, which is not history... unless they're a pro on the winning side.
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Old 12-15-2010, 07:27 AM   #69
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FTFY.

I mean, seriously, you had the tone *almost* perfect, but I would have given you a couple of extra points if you'd properly classified KKK New Guy and Adak as engaging in creative, not historical, writing.
What?

You think the KKK was violent ONLY to blacks? Guess again. If you doubt what i said about the Southern Poverty Law Center, winning big in legal suits against the KKK, it's a matter of public record. They won *big*, including substantial real estate.

If you think for one minute that segregation was broken right after the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling was made, you're way off.

Why did president Eisenhower send in the 101st Airborne into Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce it? Why was the Governor of Alabama making speeches about "segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"?

If you didn't live in the South during those times, you probably have no idea what it was like back in the days before desegregation. America was a *very* different place, back then.
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Old 12-15-2010, 08:21 AM   #70
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Yeah, they were violent to white people who dared to sympathize with black people!

Overwhelmingly they were/are violent to black people. Any white people who were targeted were targeted for sympathizing or helping the civil right cause.
Don't try to pretend that everything they do is not about racial hate. It is.
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Old 12-15-2010, 08:45 AM   #71
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It was not only the violence and intimidation of Blacks.
The KKK were/are politically active against Catholics and Jews,
and essentially anyone else that was not white and Protestant.

Oregon has a significant legal and social history with the KKK.
Essentially, the basis for private schools in the US was established
by the US Supreme Court in ruling in 1925 against the KKK
and in favor of St Mary's Academy here in Portland, OR.

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Old 12-15-2010, 09:56 AM   #72
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It was not only the violence and intimidation of Blacks.
The KKK were/are politically active against Catholics and Jews,
and essentially anyone else that was not white and Protestant.

Oregon has a significant legal and social history with the KKK.
Essentially, the basis for private schools in the US was established
by the US Supreme Court in ruling in 1925 against the KKK
and in favor of St Mary's Academy here in Portland, OR.
I actually realize that, just Adak's continuous arguments that the KKK is somehow not all about racial/prejudicial hate is really really annoying me. Somehow the fact that they sometimes target non-blacks makes them, what? Less awful? I don't understand what Adak's point is TBH. They are a hate group, their main focus is blacks.
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Old 12-15-2010, 10:27 AM   #73
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MTP, yes, point taken.

Oregon just didn't have enough Blacks to keep the KKK's busy.
The original State Constitution prohibited Blacks from owning real estate anywhere in the State. It wasn't until after WWII that significant numbers of Blacks settled in the PDX area.

Southern Oregon had KKK activity against the Native Americans, based on land and water rights, and the Chinese laborers who worked in mines and on the railroads. A history that still has lingering effects.

KKK...Oregon's "equal-opportunity" hate group.
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Old 12-15-2010, 01:56 PM   #74
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They are a hate group, their main focus is blacks.
And Jews.
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Old 12-15-2010, 06:47 PM   #75
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