(A) cheese nips : Cheez-Its
(B) Sean Salisbury : Anyone with a proper chemical balance
(C) Marion Berry : Rudy Guiliani
(D) steak-ums : Tony Luke's #politics
Nixon would be labeled a socialist/fascist and they would be asking for his birth certificate if he were around today. Oh wait, he’s white. Never mind.
By today's standards, Richard Nixon wouldn't be thought of as much of a Republican. Afterall, the EPA was started under his Administration and he was in favored of some form of universal health care. Nixon was much more socially liberal than today's Republican.
"A new breed of Republicans had taken over the GOP. As I watched this steamroller operation in San Francisco, I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
You mean, like being on a train to Dachau? Yeah, I can imagine the tension.
@wingdynasty: No, not like being on a train to Dachau. Robinson was clearly talking about living in Germany under the Nuremberg laws. In the 1950s, this was a fairly accurate comparison to the way African-Americans were being treated in most parts of this country, from ghettoization to social separation to prohibitions against intermarriage.
The Civil Rights Act was the most visible symbol of change in that status quo, but by 1964 Jim Crow was still the law in much of the south. That year's Republican and Democratic national conventions both featured strong grassroots movements opposing the Civil Rights Act and the social change it represented.
The Democrats rejected George Wallace, but the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, leading many of the more racist Democratic politicians to change parties (notably Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms).
Looking back, we know that Goldwater and Wallace failed. But from the perspective of a black man in 1964 who only knew that one of America's major political parties had just committed all of their resources to overturning the Civil Rights Act and returning America to the Jim Crow era in which he grew up, it doesn't sound like an unreasonable comparison.
As I watched this steamroller operation in San Francisco, I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
Considering the source, that is one of the most mindblowing statements I have ever seen. Obviously he was the right man at the right time for baseball if he endured all that and still had this much perspective. Wow!
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11/06/09
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[www.kgw.com] #politics
11/06/09
Chris Dudley : Bill Bradley ::
(A) cheese nips : Cheez-Its
(B) Sean Salisbury : Anyone with a proper chemical balance
(C) Marion Berry : Rudy Guiliani
(D) steak-ums : Tony Luke's #politics
11/06/09
11/06/09
A Yalie in Mahonia Hall? Bully to him! #politics
10/14/09
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You mean, like being on a train to Dachau? Yeah, I can imagine the tension.
Is the Nazi meme tired yet? Apparently not.
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/seen the ovens, searching for a joke
10/14/09
The Civil Rights Act was the most visible symbol of change in that status quo, but by 1964 Jim Crow was still the law in much of the south. That year's Republican and Democratic national conventions both featured strong grassroots movements opposing the Civil Rights Act and the social change it represented.
The Democrats rejected George Wallace, but the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, leading many of the more racist Democratic politicians to change parties (notably Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms).
Looking back, we know that Goldwater and Wallace failed. But from the perspective of a black man in 1964 who only knew that one of America's major political parties had just committed all of their resources to overturning the Civil Rights Act and returning America to the Jim Crow era in which he grew up, it doesn't sound like an unreasonable comparison.
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Craggs seems well educated...jury's still out on Barry.
I kid...I kid.
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What's that? A j-school's worth nothing? Oh, carry on then.
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10/13/09
From a wheelchair?
10/13/09
Considering the source, that is one of the most mindblowing statements I have ever seen. Obviously he was the right man at the right time for baseball if he endured all that and still had this much perspective. Wow!
/dick joke
09/17/09