History Forum / General / General Topics / May 2004

Nothing careless about me.  I care for all of this millennia-old situation.
Governor Wallace protected actions against African Americans by any means he
found necessary, including the misrepresentation of the common law of the
United States Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and he said so, openly.
He said so openly, as the government of Florida did so openly in its city
named for an African Saint.
Accordingly, the NAACP headquarters in  Montgomery hung a flag over its door
saying a man was lynched today, and they did not hang that flag out on days
no African American was lynched by people who bury their heads in dust, as
you do.
Wallace succeeded in turning to dust some of the land the bus boycot made
fertile, but flowers still grow with attitudes like yours as fertilizing
manure.
Nothing is yet perfect, but everything is moving toward perfection, despite
your denial of your world.  I'll paraphrase a Dixieland trumpeter, to say it
ain't the world that's so bad but what you're failing to do to it, in the
long run.  History shows that, from Jericho to Andersonville, from the Ten
Commandments to our present efforts in Iraq, from our failures there to the
end of crusades.
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