The state of politics in the United States has been, and continue to be a fascination for me. The place that I grew up in, Ridgeland, Mississippi, in the 1950s and early 60s, was a small village of around Three Hundred souls, Blacks and Whites. We tended to get along well, if such a concept was possible in the segregated, White Supremacy State. During these formative years I saw the rise and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, the integration of the University of Mississippi, the murders of Medger Evers in Jackson, the murder of three Civil Rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. I was part of a group of black high school students that tried and failed to integrate the All White Madison-Ridgeland High School, as a senior. (it is interesting to note that my oldest son, Kevin, graduated from that school in 1989).
It is through these experiences that I watched the current debate concerning Health-Care in disgust. What fascinates me is that many in this Country fail to realize, it seems, is that this debate is not so much about Health-Care, as it is about political power and who holds that power. It seems as though the Media, God bless them, continue to miss the point of what is behind this, so called, grass root protest. They don't seem listen to the constant Republican "TALKING POINTS" that seem to come from ordinary, hard working, mostly White, Americans. The talk of "SOCIALISM" and Karl Marx. History tells us that the KKK also linked racism and anti-semitism to socialism and communist, and justified their actions through the Christian way of life. One man blamed President Obama for the lack of job creation that was created, not by him, but the likes of Ronald Reagan and the two Bushes.
I challenge you to compare the present day Republican Party and their tactics to the post Civil War Democratic Party and their tactics. I submit that you will find a correlation between the influence of the Southern Democrats/Dixiecrats that high jacked the nation Democratic Party from 1877 to 1948 and the present day Dixiecrat-Republican that began to take control of the Republican Party after 1948 under the guise of "Conservatism".
America, take a look at the Dixiecrat Party platform of 1948 with the core of the Republican Party ideology today. In the process they are turning us back hundreds of years.
WAKE-UP PEOPLE!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Carnethia Hudson. I am apart of your History of Civilization Class on MWF @ 11:00am-11:50am. My feelings toward Americans Politics are they are never predictable. I also feel if we as a black race do not get up and take a stand for what is fair, we will soon be living in the lives of our ancestors, in slavery.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Briana McAllister. I am apart of your History of Civilization class on MWF @ 11:00am-11:50am. I agree with Carnethia. This don't make no semse!!!!! We as black people need to not be scared to speak out and be heard. LIke Carnethia said if we don't get this thing on the roll we will be living in slavery. I don't know about everybody else but i aint trying to live that life.