Comments on: Top 20 Women in Civil Rights? I Don’t Think So

By: steve

steve — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:31:54 +0000

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.

By: thatsrightnate

thatsrightnate — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:34:11 +0000

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.

By: lunchcountersitin

lunchcountersitin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:37:24 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:01:29 +0000

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.

By: thatsrightnate

thatsrightnate — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:08:00 +0000

I’m glad you popped by. I’ll be following those two elections real closely this Fall. Don’t be a stranger.

By: Kristi

Kristi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:35:37 +0000

Well said, my friend.
I, too, am a big fan of Tj Baker-Holm.

Kris Nix