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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I applaud her position on Iraq, the corporate influence in government and the underrepresentation of the disenfranchised, particularly minorities.
But I think its fair to say that she played the "race" card in a demeaning manor more than any member of Congress, often to the detriment of the cause for which she was fighting. There is a reason why her colleagues on both sides of the aisle referred to her as the "girl who cried race."
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dc_dux, IMO, McKinney made her maximum impact just by showing up at the capitol, and then by persuading her constituents to send her back to DC, to serve six more terms.
I cannot overemphasize to you and willravel, how the odds, in her formative years, and, as a young adult, and to a degree that is greater than you know, even today....were and are stacked against Mckinney. I don't think you are fully able to hold the opinions about her and "the race issue", that you two are in agreement about.
(This is the kind of post you've defended my option to compose and post, I'm sure those who disagree with you will be wondering how you like it, when it is posted in response to your opinion....)
When actor Danny Glover agrees with your opinion of McKinney's publicly expressed comments on race, I'll admit that I am mistaken:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/we...=1&oref=slogin
LAST weekend, I did a remarkable thing. I hailed a cab.
An Arm in the Air for That Cab Ride Home
By CALVIN SIMS
Published: October 15, 2006
TAXI! On Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, an African-American man hails a cab.
It was late, around 2 a.m. and I had just finished dinner with friends in SoHo. I was alone, and raised my hand, looking for an available yellow cab. As if by magic, one drove by, stopped and I stepped in.
That may not sound like anything extraordinary, but it was the first time I can remember getting a cab to carry me uptown that late at night without having to hide in the shadows while white friends procured one for me.....
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...52C1A96F958260
November 7, 1999
After Complaints by Actor, Group Will Sue Taxi Panel
By THOMAS J. LUECK
Three days after the actor Danny Glover protested that he had been passed by and treated rudely by New York City cabdrivers, State Senator David Paterson and the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday that they were organizing a class-action lawsuit charging the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission with racial discrimination.
Separately, a group of minority officers in the New York City Police Department, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement, said yesterday that it had begun a campaign within the department to persuade officers on the street to devote more attention to the civil rights of those seeking taxis, and to issue summonses to taxi drivers who illegally pass by black and Hispanic customers.
At a rally in his Harlem headquarters, Mr. Sharpton said the episodes described on Wednesday by Mr. Glover reflected a form of bias that is common among taxi drivers.
Mr. Glover had staged a news conference, saying that he, his daughter and a friend of his daughter's had been ignored by several cabs, and that one driver who stopped had refused him access to the front seat of the taxi, even though Mr. Glover is more than six feet tall, has a bad hip and is entitled under taxi industry rules to stretch out in the front.....
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...52C1A96F958260
November 4, 1999
Danny Glover Says Cabbies Discriminated Against Him
By MONTE WILLIAMS
....Mr. Glover, who is black, said he was already angry because several hours earlier five yellow cabs had failed to stop for him, his daughter and her roommate at 116th Street and Seventh Avenue.
At a news conference yesterday in the lobby of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, Mr. Glover, with his daughter, Mandisa, a senior at New York University, at his side, said he had been visiting her from San Francisco. When those cabs passed them by, Mr. Glover said: ''I was so angry. The fact that my daughter's here to go to school, it really upsets me that if she's standing on the corner waiting to get a cab, she can't get a cab. It happens to her, it happens to countless people every single day. The fact that I'm a celebrity, the fact that I'm visible, allows me to draw attention to this.''
Then, about 1 a.m., he said, they were trying to flag a cab on the corner of Houston Street and Second Avenue. A taxi stopped at a red light. His daughter tried to open one of the cab's back doors, but found it locked.
The driver unlocked the doors and the two young women got in the back seat. Mr. Glover said he climbed in the front seat and the driver objected and pushed him. The 6-foot-4 actor said he has a bad hip and has found the back seats of taxis too confining.
''He told me he was going to call the police,'' Mr. Glover said. ''I told him, 'I want you to call the police.' ''....
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The crap that McKinney has been subjected to, as a congressperson, is supported in this post:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...1&postcount=16
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-434464.html
Capitol Police Face Discrimination Case; Black Officers Allege 'Rabid Animosity'
The Washington Post
April 13, 2001
Bill Miller
More than 200 current and retired black officers with the U.S. Capitol Police filed a complaint yesterday alleging that they were denied promotions and opportunities because of racial discrimination in a workplace that shows "rabid animosity" toward minorities.
Unless action is taken, the complaint says, "the Capitol Police will continue to be a modern day version of a 19th Century Southern Plantation in law enforcement." Among other things, the complaint alleges that black officers are unfairly disciplined, subjected to racist and sexist remarks from white officers, and punished if they complain.
"You have basically a renegade police department up here, operating under Congress," said ...
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http://bankrupt.com/CAR_Public/060508.mbx
UNITED STATES: Capitol Police Board Faces Racial Bias Lawsuits
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The U.S. Capitol Police Board is a defendant in several racial
discrimination class actions that are pending in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia, The SFBayView.com
reports.
On the suit is entitled, "Blackmon-Malloy et al. v. United
States Capitol Police Board, 1:01-cv-02221-EGS-JMF," which was
filed in 2001 by more than 200 African American Capitol police
officers, who are members of the U.S. Capitol Black Police
Association.
That suit is alleging disparate treatment based on race in
personnel decisions, such as promotions, other selections, work
assignments, discipline and termination (by creation of a
hostile work environment) and through harassment and retaliation
against African American officers who oppose discrimination.
The other suit, entitled, "Bolden-Whitaker, et al. v. United
States Capitol Police Board, 1:03-cv-02644-EGS" was filed in
2003 by four police officers, who alleged retaliation by the
department over their participation in the 2001 suit.
According to the suit, "Officer Duvall Phelps joined the United
States Capitol Police on Oct. 6, 1975, and 25 years later was
forced into early retirement on Oct. 31, 2000."
Mr. Phelps, the liaison between the class action members and the
lead counsel, Joseph D. Gebhart, alleges that he was retaliated
against because of his participation in the lawsuit.
The suit specifically states, "In January 2002, Phelps was
denied building access on several occasions by white officers .
even though there is a standing practice to allow building
access to retired Members of Congress and Capitol Police
Officers." It goes on to state, "Sgt. Leonard later told a
female officer that he was tired of Mr. Phelps being in the
building."
The following year, "Lt. Rosencrans announced at roll call that
a certain retiree was illegally entering the buildings and that
he should be denied access and required to park his car where
the public parks. Capitol Police officials in the House
Division have requested that African American Officer Braswell
park the vehicle of a particular white Capitol Police retiree
named Schwartz in the Upper D Street Garage - a restricted
parking garage reserved for staff - when that retiree visits
Capitol Hill."
In July 2003, the suit alleges, "Items were stolen from Mr.
Phelps' vehicle, including his Capitol Police credentials and
badge. Lead Class Agent Sharon Blackmon-Malloy's vehicle was
also tampered with in the same timeframe. Mr. Phelps'
credentials were turned in to the Capitol Police on July 31 or
Aug. 1, 2003."
"White officers who are not members of the Blackmon-Malloy class
have not been subjected to similarly retaliatory and
discriminatory treatment. White retired Officers were not
denied access to Capitol complex buildings or otherwise
harassed."
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McKinney grew up in a state where there were 81 school districts still in defiance of a federal court desgregation order in 1969, and a final 3, in 1973.
Zell Miller was Gov. Lester Maddox's chief of staff.....
Here is the current GA governor, speaking in reaction to Maddox's death:
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/25/maddox.dead/
<i>Lester Maddox brandishes a pistol during an unsuccessful attempt by three black men to desegregate his restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, the day after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law in 1964.</i><img src="http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/25/maddox.dead/story.maddox.gun.jpg">
...Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction, praised Maddox for his common touch.
"Governor Maddox had the unique ability to connect with everyday Georgians regardless of their background or station in life," Perdue said in a statement..
...Maddox said until the end he never regretted any of the stands he took. But those who worked for and supported Maddox said his stand on segregation was more an expression of his eccentric individualism than any hatred of blacks.....
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http://www.onthemedia.org/yore/trans...703_south.html
June 27, 2003
......Strom Thurmond retreated from that position during his long career as more and more Blacks went to the polls. In fact, he was the first Southern Senator to hire a black aide. But there was no such rehabilitation for former Georgia governor Lester Maddox. In 1964 he earned a kind of fame for driving black customers out of his chicken and burger restaurant with pick handles and ultimately closed it down rather than serve them food. As governor, even as he hired Blacks to government posts, he continued to espouse racism. Here was Maddox in 1976, 5 years after he was voted out of office.
LESTER MADDOX: I'm a segregationist. You are too, more than likely. A, a segregationist is a person that cares enough for his own race, has enough racial pride and integrity for his race and other races and loves and wants to protect and defend 'em. And do you want -- do you want the races destroyed? If you don't, then you're a segregationist....
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http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/g...d=oid%3A211477
03-07-07
This is an excerpt from Elliot Jaspin's Buried in the Bitter Waters (Basic Books, $26.95), which will be released March 12.
......When I had begun researching the history of racial cleansings in America, I had no idea that the trail would lead back to the company where I have worked for fifteen years. But as I reconstructed what had happened in Forsyth County, just twenty miles from downtown Atlanta, I found the series of stories published by the Journal-Constitution in the wake of the brotherhood march in 1987. Rather than deal with the legacy of racial cleansings, the newspaper urged its readers not to dwell "on what happened in the past." At critical moments when solid reporting would have helped advance the public debate, the newspaper's coverage was incomplete and misleading.
But most of those involved in the conference call seriously doubted that one Cox newspaper could criticize another. Alexander tried to argue that Atlanta's coverage was not all that important. Newspapers like the Journal-Constitution, Alexander argued, don't have "a major responsibility for the community not coming to grips with this."
John Erickson, an editor at the Dayton Daily News, suggested that simply reporting the material that the Journal-Constitution had missed would be sufficient. A sharp-eyed reader who bothered to compare the coverage could see the shortcomings of the Journal-Constitution. Another editor wondered if we could judge since we didn't know what was in the editors' minds.
The longer they talked the clearer it became that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's checkered coverage of race was taboo.
"This is not to get beyond this room," warned Fred Zipp, the managing editor of the Austin American-Statesman, before he hinted that political pressure from inside Cox would doom any critical look at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's role. "I don't think we are going to get [the series] into any newspaper that is owned by Cox." The problem, Zipp said, was that, if Atlanta's role was discussed, the publisher of the Austin paper, would get "a call from somebody saying, 'You know we really think it is a bad idea to put that series in the paper the way it is written now.'" When that happened, Zipp said, "What I will be required to do is take it out or not publish it."
Over the course of the eight years I spent researching this book, I had been struck again and again by the fact that America's racial cleansings had remained hidden for so long––hidden from historians, hidden from public memory, and sometimes even hidden from the communities in which they had occurred.
It seemed impossible that events that, by their nature were so public, could disappear so completely. How could that happen?
I was about to get a demonstration.
What is striking about this story is that Cox Newspapers is such a good corporate citizen. It is seen as solid and responsible. Its newspapers in Dayton and Atlanta have won Pulitzers, and the company hosts yearly awards within Cox meant to encourage good journalism. It is not shy about spending the money to take the government to court when it feels public information is being withheld, and Cox executives have testified before Congress to make government more open. It treats its employees fairly, provides a generous health care plan, funds a solid pension plan, and racial diversity is a company-wide goal. The number of minority employees in the newsrooms at its four largest newspapers ranges from thirteen to twenty-three percent, and a 2005 study found Cox ranked fifth among the top twenty-six newspaper companies for the number of non-white employees it has hired. The company holds diversity seminars, works to find minority employees, and would, I have no doubt, fire any employee guilty of discrimination. Yet, when confronted with missteps in its own past, the company lost its head.
When, by way of my article on Forsyth County, the issue of racial justice came into direct conflict with the company's historic reputation, Cox Newspapers jumped back as if it had brushed against a hot stove. The stories I had written were edited to obscure the Atlanta newspaper's lackadaisical coverage of race. Editors ignored clear conflicts of interest while editing the racial cleansing series. Procedures designed to protect the integrity of the reporting process were dispensed with. And finally the head of the company's newspaper division overrode the judgment of editors in Austin and Washington and ordered that a different term be substituted for "racial cleansings." It is a cautionary tale about the lingering shame that silences honest discussion of the full history of America's racial cleansings.
The story of Forsyth County's racial cleansing is fairly clear: Over several months more than a thousand blacks were driven out of the county in 1912. Some were able to sell their land. The majority lost everything. With their expulsion, Forsyth County became a sanctuary for racism in northern Georgia. While counties surrounding it had black populations that numbered in the thousands, in Forsyth County the number of blacks never went above fifty. In 1960 the Census only counted four, and that drifted down to one in 1980. The county's racism was hard to ignore. It was hard but not impossible.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution, which were both owned by Cox Newspapers and merged in the 1980s, usually discussed the county's racism only when there was an incident such as an attack on black campers at a local park. Invariably in the description of the incident the newspaper would quote a resident saying racism was a thing of the past in Forsyth County. Even when there was an incident, the newspapers might not cover it. In 1980, for example, neither newspaper reported that a black Atlanta firefighter had been shot by whites while attending a picnic in the county. The only way the public learned about it was a brief article buried in the back pages describing the conviction of one of the assailants.
In 1987 when whites in Forsyth County created a national uproar by attacking a biracial brotherhood march, the Atlanta Constitution ran a series of stories about racism in America that included Forsyth County. It seemed like a good first step except for the editor's note at the top of the story.
"The racist feeling expressed during recent events in Forsyth County had a Southern voice and inflection, shaped in part by the history and culture of that county. But racism is not a Southern or even a regional phenomenon. Today's is the first of three articles, reported from Forsyth County, New Hampshire and Ohio, exploring the currents of white bias in America."
The newspaper was reassuring its readers that they were no worse than anyone else......
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120020,00.html
Ga. High School Holds Segregated Proms
Monday, May 17, 2004
.....School officials said students are invited to attend any of the proms — even all three if they wish.
But high school junior Anna Rosa Perez said racial crossover is still discouraged at the dances and thinks the school needs to get involved and sponsor one prom for everyone......
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When I first moved to GA, more than five years ago, I read a newspaper article describing the situation of pre-1970 high school athletic records. The only official records of athletic, record setting achievements retained before 1970, are from "whites only" high schools. Most reporting of black high school athletic achievement was only published in nearly all now defunct, black owned publications. Where records statistics and reports do exist, they are in dusty boxes in basements and attics, most are probably lost. My senior year high school football team were state champs. I didn't play on the team, but it was considered a great thing in our school and throughout the state. Our graduating class was only 185 members.
I'm probably getting too "preachy" at this point, but, if a loss, an injustice, especially something that you take for granted, has not been a lifelong thing in your life, can you really decide how someone else should react to it. Have you ever been hurting about something, and hurt even more when those around you seem indifferent about what is affecting you? |