And the Jackass returns to its vomit.
Somewhere George Wallace is Smiling
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Complete ⭕️.
Imagine calling that progress.
So how have they divided the classes up? Which race and gender are placed in the “dumb” maths class? I mean if it’s the Asian students then there’s a pig up ahead flapping its wings. Bonkers.
I’ve never met a Democrat who wasn’t a racist, and a tyrant. There is no good faith in the modern Democrat party.
To George Wallace’s credit I believe he renounced his racism before he died.
To George Wallace’s credit I believe he renounced his racism before he died.
Wallace was about what was optimal for Wallace. He posed as a temporizer prior to 1959, as a segregationist diehard for thirteen years, and then as a New South partisan for the remainder of his career.
For some unfathomable reasons, physicians did not used to give cancer diagnoses directly to patients. They’d tell some proximate third party and expect the third party to give the information to patients at their discretion. Well, Wallace is informed in 1962 that his wife has uterine cancer. He tells her nothing. She found out by some accident three years later; members of his staff knew she was ill, but she knew nothing. She had uterine cancer percolating around in her and had had no treatments, so she starts treatment in 1965. Then, to get around constitutional limits on re-election, he has her run as a decoy candidate for governor. She’s in office for a year and change, ill much of the time while Wallace keeps offering the media happy talk about her condition. After she dies, her Lt. Governor tells Wallace to get lost.
Wallace was a monster.
Agreed Art. Wallace started out as a New Deal liberal and a moderate on racial issues. After he lost the 1958 nomination for Governor of Alabama he swore that nobody would out n—-r him again. Over weening ambition was his only guiding principle. He would run through two more marriages, both of them ending in divorce.
Well,….at least they’re finally being honest. Ignorant, hateful, hypocritical, and intellectually dishonest to be sure. Not to mention intensely racially prejudicial. Still, they’ve been trying to soft-pedal these actions as “Affirmative Action” or “expressing ethnic identity” for some decades now.
Actually Wallace expressed gratitude for his treatment at a Catholic hospital after the attempted assassination on his life. After that experience he was relatively quiet and dismissed his behavior as Governor as a product of the times. Whether he underwent a true change of heart has been judged at a Higher Level.
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I suspect that the purpose here is to force a curve on each of the classes, and thus raise the black passing rate. After all, if you fail the majority of the black course then you must be a RACIST.
You might be over-thinking it RH, it might be nothing more than divide and conquer … If your intention was to teach the two groups completely different “facts“, separating them first would be necessary, otherwise someone might notice.
I wonder if that high school is going to have separate water fountains for different races? And when will they assign parts of the bus where the kids sit based on their race? Wow! How stunning and brave! Why haven’t schools done something like this before? /sarc.
Scientists have discovered the cause for the recent disturbance in the earth’s magnetic field — it’s due to a mass with an incredibly high rate of spin, localized in the vicinity of Rosa Park’s grave.
What would you folks have Wallace do? He apologized for his role in segregation, and in a race for governor, received a majority of the black vote. Was his apology sincere? I don’t know, and I suggest neither do you. If the story concerning his wife is true, that is certainly reprehensible. Why is this dead man who repented worthy of such approbation. Am I missing something.
Was his apology sincere?
Unlikely considering his past life. It certainly was expedient for him.
Why is this dead man who repented worthy of such approbation.
I think the word you meant was opprobrium. Because he was a cynical opportunist who appealed to the worse demons of our nature for squalid political gain. The world was a better place when he left it.
What would you folks have Wallace do?
A. Be a passable husband. Exceeding Wallace’s performance in this regard is within the reach of just about anyone.
B. Make politics an avocation or an interlude in a life devoted to some other pursuit. Calvin Coolidge was a working lawyer from 1897 to 1918 and from 1929 to 1933. Recall Jerry Springer’s explanation of why he left political life. “I didn’t want to do it as a career. When you’re doing it to put bread on the table, you’ll say anything. These guys haven’t practiced law in 25 years. They’d be incompetent. They go into lobbying because that is what they know”.
I wouldn’t expect a Southern politician to apologize for his political advocacy unless he’d been a gruesome character like Theodore Bilbo. Also, courts and legislatures have a long record of misbehavior on race matters and resisting some of that was legitimate. While we’re at it, the current regime of race relations in public and institutional life may improve on that in the Southern United States in 1948. It does not improve on it elsewhere.
who appealed to the worse demons of our nature for squalid political gain.
I can think of worse demons than the ones to which he appealed.
The world was a better place when he left it.
He was an invalid who’d been retired for 11 years when he left it.
He was an invalid who’d been retired for 11 years when he left it.
If he hadn’t been an invalid I would have said the world was a much better place when he left it.
I can think of worse demons than the ones to which he appealed.
He didn’t have a monopoly on evil Art, but evil he was.
I’ve never met a Democrat who wasn’t a racist, and a tyrant.
I have.
There is no good faith in the modern Democrat party.
Except at the margins, this is true.
Got me! You are correct, I used the wrong word. The hatred for Wallace seems extreme. If you remove his name from some of the policy positions he articulated while running for President you may agree with many. The certainty which many seem to have on the state of his Soul at death, is beyond my qualifications to judge.