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  • Posted By: Bill Smith @ 01/20/2009 1:22:48 PM

    Funny how people seem to forget that the so called civil rights movement was a major blow to freedom in America, specifically private property rights. Of course fascists and marxists think different.

  • Posted By: star3 @ 01/19/2009 10:16:57 PM

    I am soooooo tired of these hyphanated terms to describe people! "African-American, Mexican-American"! What is with this?! You never hear anyone refer to themselves as Irish-American, or German-American, or European-American. Hey, you're either American or you're African, you're either American or you're Mexican-----make up your mind! Personally, I am human-American, my dog is dog-American. When will this nonsense stop?!? It sounds like a bunch of idiots who aren't sure who they are! So your ancestors originated in some other country----so what?! They aren't here, you are and if you were born in American, or took the oath here to become an American citizen, then you are 100% AMERICAN-----period. Now, can we shut up with the hyphanated crap? And, yes, I know why you do it---to distinguish yourself , but you do that by what you do with your life---not by putting a hyphen in your nationality.

    • Posted By: Repubssuck @ 01/20/2009 10:33:22 AM

      we have German-American and Italian-American clubs and organizations. My wife is an italian-American. It's not a sign of disrespect for America, it's a sign of respect for their heritage. I agree that while it is ok to label yourself as such. it doesn't make a lot sense for someone else to refer to another by their heritage rather than their name.

  • Posted By: Faye_Kane_ Homeless_Brain @ 01/20/2009 2:14:13 AM

    star3, If I knew who you are, I'd send you a box of tweity-dollar CEE-gars.

    I'm putting your comment on my blog, as it's own item.

    -- faye kane, homeless brain -- See more of my smartmouth opinions at http://tinyurl.com/fayeblog

  • Posted By: Faye_Kane_ Homeless_Brain @ 01/20/2009 2:12:05 AM

    star3, If I knew who you are, I'd send you a box of tweity-dollar CEE-gars.

    I;m putting your comment on my blog, as it's own item.

  • Posted By: Chicanobychoice @ 01/19/2009 10:33:06 PM

    Star 3 is ignorant. I considered myself and American, it is this society that hypenated me and EVERYONE ELSE in the 1950's and 1960's. I never asked to be Mexican-American and rejected that, and chose Chicano in defiance of the American way of hyphenating. The nonsense will stop when the country stops using the terms in its surveys, census and so on, don't blame us blame the American way. My ancestors were here before Europeans. Chicano Power! People Power

  • Posted By: Zuberu @ 09/11/2008 10:23:53 AM

    Wouldn't it be great if all these people arrested in that age, were given Freedom medals for their efforts to bring peace and enlightenment to the South. Maybe even have their criminal arrests expunged by modern authorities. Heroes come from all walks of life and these people truly are heroes for their stand against oppression.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 01/19/2009 10:29:57 PM

      Let it be understood that not everyone in the south was racist, there were many whites who were glad to see the civil rights movement, and were rooting for it to succeed. Its a popular mis-conception that all white southerners were against the blacks; this is definitely not reality, just as it is not true that the entire south was in favor of the Civil War, some states were not, but due to their location, they did not have a lot of choice but to go along with it.

  • Posted By: JMAC91 @ 01/19/2009 9:57:51 PM

    I grew up in a small town 45 miles north of Montgomery and graduated from High School in 1960. I was a student at the University of Alabama when Gov George Wallace (D) made his stand in the schoolhouse door. Democrats were in power in Alabama (had been since reconstruction), and supported or led most of the violence against the Freedom Riders and all blacks who demonstrated for their civil rights. That is the primary reason that I became a Republican in 1961 and remain so today.

  • Posted By: rdh53 @ 01/19/2009 9:15:55 PM

    It would be nice if people would get over this "O'bama is Black" thing. He may qualify as African-American if you realize that African-American is an ethnic term and NOT racial. You wouldn't call a black Frenchman "African-American" anymore than a Samoan, or Aborigine. Its an ethnic term. You can be African-American without being black and you can be black without being African-American. Got it? Also, if I remember my Biology 101 right, when two people of different races have an offspring, the offspring inherits (just like everyone else) the chromosomes and DNA of BOTH parents, hence the term Bi-Racial. O'bama is Bi-racial, not black. And, since his black father deserted him and he was raised by his White mother and HER parents, he's more White than Black. Why can't people understand that? Are we so hung up on electing a Black person we overlook the facts? And what has O'bama got to do with Slavery?? His father was directly from Kenya. His has NO black roots here in America. He barely made American as he was born in Hawaii only two years after it became a State. Lets get our facts streight!!

  • Posted By: Zuberu @ 09/11/2008 10:23:02 AM

    Wouldn't it be great if all these people arrested in that age, were given Freedom medasl for their efforts to bring peace and enlightenment to the South. Maybe even have their criminal arrests expunged by modern authorities. Heroes come from all walks of life and these people truly are heroes for their stand against oppression.

  • Posted By: Wanderist @ 06/11/2008 10:13:02 PM

    I just bought the book. Although I was on the ride, there is a wonderful text introduction that has a lot of historical info I didn't know, or at least didn't remember. At the very end of the book is a photo of one of the chess sets. Not the ICBM set, one of the earlier ones. Byron Baer's radio is described. Worth a look, if you can get to a bookstore author visit, especially if Eric has his slide show going. Freedom Riders attend!

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  • Posted By: Wanderist @ 06/08/2008 9:33:08 AM

    Raven appears to be an automaton, probably written in Perl. Take some words from the text, rearrange them on a matrix, pass it by eyes for proofing, dump it on a print publisher. While the words appear inwardly consistent, there is no ground under them. The automaton does not know to what these words really refer.

  • Posted By: ParchmanCell5 @ 06/03/2008 6:02:21 PM

    I am one of the Freedom Riders pictured in these twelve very interesting studies of the effects of living for 47 years between shots. Eric is quite the skilled photographer.
    On the subject of bravery, courage, or naivete... Yes--we were deeply committed to social justice. Yes, we were willing to put our bodies in the works of the system of segregation. But many of us were mostly teenagers--the very age from whom we draw our cannon fodder. I was scared as hell, but did not REALLY consider that I COULD die. A take home lesson for today is that only through non-violent action can positive social advancement be made. Thank you Eric for these pictures and what they remind us of.

  • Posted By: Livingonhope @ 06/03/2008 9:16:10 AM

    I don't think it is fair to say that just because people haven't commented makes them racist. It is hard to comment on something so emotional. I was very touched by the photos and storys. I have heard stories and am now able to put names and faces to the storys is touching.

  • Posted By: THE RAVEN @ 06/02/2008 5:29:14 PM

    Why are you racist white cowards afraid to say anything about the FREEDOM RIDERS?

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