Dagny Taggart is a character from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", but she was also my teacher. She taught me the fallacy of my liberal upbringing. If you are a liberal, you may see some of the fallacy of it here, too....unless you're braindead!"At the time of my visit, the lead article was the one linked.
Hiram Revels, First Black Senator, Served 1870-71, Filling Mississippi Term of Jefferson Davis
It is as informative (and true) as it is startling! DR recounts (her?) trip to the truth, and even credits Rush.
My original reason for starting to blog was that I'd been lied to as a student. I'd been told that the civil rights legislation was due to the Democrats. How did I learn I'd been lied to? It began in 1989 when I started listening to Rush Limbaugh. I originally listened to him because I liked to argue with him....until one day he said that the Republicans had pushed for civil rights legislation for decades before it was passed. It wasn't until the 1960's that the civil rights tide began to turn. Having been raised by conservative Roosevelt Democrat parents, and having been schooled in Southern California, of course I'd been taught that it was entirely the donks who had engineered this history making legislation. So when I did my own research to refute Rush's allegations, and learned he was entirely correct, I was livid! If there is one thing I cannot stand, it is being lied to...even once! I felt like I'd been lied to my entire life! So with that in mind, I am going to post that letter again.What follows is "An Open Letter to the Democratic Party" and it's just slpendid. Being rather lengthy but worth the full read, I'll just excerpt, and encourage folks to take a look....
Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,
Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,
Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,
DR left a comment at ITM, and said good-bye with this sign-off...
"Thank you, Brothers-of-my-Heart, for your continual education of my fellow Americans. It gives me hope for both your country and mine."
espresso beans to ITM
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