retiredguy
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You guys have a very short view of history. So I'm going to give you a little lesson. When I was growing up 8 years old, i went to the first integrated summer camp in the south. The Klan poisoned our swimming hole, dynamited our front gate and burned a huge cross in front to the property. We had to move 40 little 8-12 year old campers under cover of darkness to a more secluded location in Tennessee, the Highlander Folk School. Two days before, one of the camp staff had been pulled from a camp truck, one of the same one we rode in to Tennessee, beaten, taken to the hospital, picked up at the hospital and charged with assault. The police had given all the plate numbers of vehicle owned by the camp to the klan, so they could hand out clan justice, so there was tension every minute of the journey from Georgia to Tennessee.  All the campers were given instruction in what to do if we were pulled over and attacked. I was 8 at the time. The camp was later burned to the ground by Tennessee State troopers, after the House Un-American Activites Committee declared it a communist institution. All civil rights organizations were communist according to among others J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI.

 

Growing up, my family camped a lot. There were no hotels or motels where a mixed race couple could stay. Race laws prevented it, everywhere, north and south. Now I could go on about this stuff for a few hours, with my own little documentary of the Civil Rights Movement. ALl I'm going to say is that, for you whining little snot nosed brats with your total lack of knowledge of where you came from and who sacrificed to make the election of Obama possible at all, what people went through, for you to sit in your privileged little world and think yourselves fit to pronounce that the election of Obama means nothing. You who have never had to put your lives on the line for anything. All I can say is, you have no clue. I think you might be grumpy because you need a diaper change. Go find you mommies.


What does the Obama victory mean for the future of "race" in America? By: Star Spangled Canadian (66 replies) November 6, 2008 - 8:37am
  •   I've been listening to By: George Victor (Nov 15 2008 - 8:41am)
  • The media and all sorts of By: KenS (Nov 15 2008 - 6:57am)
  • Obama's Victory and the By: M. Spector (Nov 15 2008 - 1:43am)
  • George Victor wrote:   As By: Makwa (Nov 14 2008 - 12:26am)
  • As the story goes, people By: Slumberjack (Nov 13 2008 - 10:13pm)
  •   As the fella in the By: George Victor (Nov 13 2008 - 9:09pm)
  • George, I'm not sure if you By: Catchfire (Nov 13 2008 - 8:59pm)
  •   Sorry, Makwa, but I've By: George Victor (Nov 13 2008 - 8:49pm)
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  • quote: I was responding By: George Victor (Nov 13 2008 - 2:24pm)
  • retiredguy wrote: You guys By: M. Spector (Nov 13 2008 - 1:50pm)
  • Re: What does the Obama victory mean for the future of "rac By: Catchfire (Nov 13 2008 - 1:41pm)
  • That's a personal attack, By: George Victor (Nov 13 2008 - 1:33pm)
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  • quote Growing up, my By: George Victor (Nov 13 2008 - 9:38am)
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  • You guys have a very short By: retiredguy (Nov 12 2008 - 10:33pm)
  • George Victor wrote: What By: Fidel (Nov 12 2008 - 9:24pm)
  •   There will always be By: George Victor (Nov 12 2008 - 8:34pm)
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