Top 20 Women in Civil Rights? I Don’t Think So
The Smithsonian is launching a new travelling exhibit called Freedom’s Sisters that looks at 20 women who were important in the Civil Rights Movement :::Yawn:::. I mean yeah that’s a great idea, but these women were chosen in a completely biased and partisan way as usual. Out of 20 women, there are no Conservatives, no Republicans, and let’s not forget no white people, or men who also served important roles in the Civil Rights movement and judging by the picture were the main people to go to the exhibit. If you want to be all-encompassing let me suggest adding some modern crusaders.
TJ Baker Holm – She’s a librarian as well as an avid quilter. She’s a top political journalist with her show “The Constitution on WTP Public Access–This year Texans in the 18th District will have a chance to elect her to Congress. You go girl.
Dr. Ada M. Fisher – She’s a medical doctor who published a booklet on terrorism. She was largely responsible for the use of tape in homeland security for fighting biological and chemical attacks. She served as Medical Director for Amoco and she’s running for Congress in North Carolina.
Dr. Condaleeza Rice - Other than meow what more really needs to be said. Dr. Rice is the Secretary of State. How about all she’s done?
Or are we just going to spend all our time congradulating the same liberal icons who sat on the wrong seat on a bus or gave a little speech or something. How about the people who made real change?
Well said, my friend.
I, too, am a big fan of Tj Baker-Holm.
Kris Nix
Kristi
March 15, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I’m glad you popped by. I’ll be following those two elections real closely this Fall. Don’t be a stranger.
thatsrightnate
March 15, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I have chatted with both TJ Baker-Holm and John Faulk. If I had to lose the election to either of them or Sheila Jackson Lee, I would rather lose to Tj Baker-Holm. I am a Constitutionalist, myself, and out of the big two party’s candidates fighting over TX District 18, she is closest to where I am on issues involving the rights of citizens and the Constitution in general.
Mike
March 19, 2008 at 1:01 am
I cannot understand your problems with the exhibit.
The persons were chosen irrespective of their political affiliation.
You say there were no Republicans among the 20, a statement that is almost surely incorrect. Many politically active blacks in the pre-1960s were Republican. Remember, Lincoln (a Republican) freed the slaves, and the southern racism was institutionalized by the “Dixiecrats”, prior to the time the Dixiecrats migrated to the GOP.
The persons you name (Rice, Holm) might be appropriate in a list of post-Civil Rights era leaders, but of course, they had no involvement in the Civil Rights struggle – although Rice was touched by it. As most of us know, she is a child of Birmingham, and lived in the city when the KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church and killed the 4 little girls inside.
lunchcountersitin
June 22, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I understand what you’re saying, but I thought the “Freedom’s Sisters” exhibit was kind of exclusionary. What about the men and people of non-color who were big in the civil rights movement. For instance, Charlton Heston marched with Dr. King. It would have been nice to have him in the exhibit.
thatsrightnate
June 23, 2008 at 9:34 am
Dear Lunchcounter, Lincoln did not “free the slaves.” The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in territory out of the control of the Union Army. As late as the Hampton Roads Conference in February 1865, Lincoln was prepared to allow slavery to continue if the South would surrender. The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery. The legend that abolition was Lincoln’s work was political propaganda designed to get freedmen to vote Republican. Much like Nate’s blog is political propaganda designed to get people to vote Republican.
steve
June 23, 2008 at 6:31 pm