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...Martin Luther King's Why We Can't Wait. Or perhaps they should view documentaries of the civil rights movement such as "Eyes on the Prize." These visual records illustrate Dixie's depravity and demonstrate the rebel flag's racist connotations--in the turbulent '50s and '60s, no good segregationist was seen without the stars and bars, which was frequently emblazoned on a vest or embroidered on a Ku Klux Klan robe...
Gingrich saw his big opening in 1974, when he challenged Sixth District Congressman Jack Flynt, a silver-haired, small-town patrician, very much part of the Democratic establishment. Flynt was no raving segregationist, but unlike Gingrich, he declined to talk racial justice, the environment and other populist themes. In this situation, Gingrich, with his bushy black hair, sideburns and citrus-colored double knits, came off to most people as the more liberal of the pair. He charged that Flynt was in cahoots with the lobbyists. One Gingrich campaign piece proclaimed, "Newt Gingrich ... his special interest...
...word of a mostly Black jury, then, is acceptable, though that of a white one is not. Such a deduction is far from revelatory--the Nation of Islam has been Black separatist for years. But even worse for our nation's future than such segregationist tendencies are the invectives that roll off the tongues of Nation ministers. Muhammed told students at Emory University in 1991 that "AIDS and cancer are white plots against the Black people." Indeed, Farrakhan and troops seem to be drawing the line for a race...
...from Mississippi, was known as "the conscience of the Senate" thanks to his respect for its traditions as well as his tutelage of younger members. In the outside world, he was often more admired for his personal tenacity-surviving a 1973 mugging and 1984 cancer surgery-than for his segregationist voting record...
...results. If that was artificial, so in a way was the whole 1968 campaign. Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey dared not repudiate Johnson's doomed Vietnam policy and talked instead about "the politics of joy." Nixon, who had agreed with Johnson's escalation of the war and hoped to court segregationist votes in the South, spoke mainly in code words about "peace with honor" in Vietnam and "law and order" at home. In a year of assassinations and ghetto riots, Nixon sounded reassuring, or enough so to defeat Humphrey and the war-torn Democrats. But it was close: 43.4% for Nixon...