"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
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>>> Giusi wrote:
>>>> > ha scritto nel messaggioOn Jun 20, 12:01?am, "modom
>>>> (palindrome guy>
>>>>> I for one have observed Juneteenth annually as a part of my American
>>>>> heritage for decades. ?The white v black presumption is bogus and only
>>>>> serves to perpetuate divisiveness among our people. >
>>>> As long as Blacks insist on having separate holidays for just
>>>> themselves and as long as there's groups like the NAACP, the ACLU, The
>>>> United Negro College Fund, etc. and as long as there's affirmative
>>>> action there's going to be divisiveness between Blacks and Whites.
>>>> It's the Blacks who are the cause of the divisiveness between Blacks
>>>> and Whites.
>>>>
>>>> You need an attitude adjustment. You are aware that if someone
>>>> infringes YOUR civil rights, the ACLU will fight the case for you? I
>>>> guess black people should just shut up and take whatever falls from the
>>>> table?
>>> It wasn't too long ago that the ACLU went to court to protect a Ku Klux
>>> Klan rally's right to march and protest. The ACLU is a PITA to most of
>>> us but occasionally they do something right.
>>
>> I remember that, George, it was in Skokie, IL. The Klan applied for a
>> legal permit to march and were denied. The ACLU took their case and won
>> it for them stating they did everything correctly by asking for the
>> permit. It wasn't up to the granting authority to like what they were
>> doing just make sure it was done legally. There was a dust up, but the
>> march never would have gotten half the press if they didn't appeal the
>> decision and file with the ACLU.
>> -ginny
> Once upon a time, in a land far, far away. I as in a military unit that
> used the misnomer "Military Intelligence." One of my duties was to attend
> the Klan rallies in a nearby town. It would be me in full uniform, a Texas
> Ranger in full suit and white Stetson, an FBI agent, and maybe a couple of
> State Troopers. We would stand together, take pictures when we thought it
> necessary, and just shake our heads over the doings. Got to hear David
> Duke give a speech once, the man is a kook but charismatic. The worse part
> was the little kids, four and five years old, dressed in their satin
> sheets, being brainwashed by a bunch of old bigots. They couldn't keep us
> out, was part of their permit to gather on private property and make
> noise.
>
> And, no, I'm not any part black as far as I know. Mostly Native American
> with some English blood injected into the bloodline back in the late
> fifteenth century.
>
> George

Sad thing is, I know people who were in that 'organization'. I grew up in
the rural south during the sixties.....not pretty if you weren't 'free,
white and 21'. What I will say in defense of these yahoos is
this........when I moved up north to Philly and then married someone from
the 'burbs.....I was 'informed' (I guess they heard the southern accent and
figured I needed to know this) that the largest Klan organization in the
country was in Levittown, PA. A few years later, some dipsheet who lived
about 20 miles from here, in Longswamp, PA was sent to the federal pen due
to national organizing for the Aryan Nation. Growing up down south, you
KNEW who belonged.....they put on their bedsheets and marched around and
burned some timber on someone's farm and yelled 'white power' a lot but you
KNEW who they were, you saw their faces......up north, they do the same
thing, but their faces are under cover.......if you are going to be a bigot,
own it, asswipe (not a swipe at George, but at any bigot who maybe reading
this).....I have more respect (and I choke using that term in regards to
this group) for those who will let you know they are klansmen than those who
meet you one the street and sit next to you in church the whole while you
don't know what they, quite literally, do under the sheets.

The year I graduated high school, there was a shoot out between the klan,
the communists and the American Nazi party in Greensboro, NC. The police
got involved and I think there were police and innocents either hurt or
killed. What they should have done is shut off the streets, cleared the
general populus and told them to have at each other. Save the taxpayers
the money they would have spent on them in prison.
-ginny
(who sounds like a cold hearted bitch now, but I can't stand someone who
hates another because of his skin color or his religion.......dislike
someone because they act like assholes, not something they can't change)