Next time you hear this please do NOT let them get away from the “rest of the story”. Both statements above are true. After the Civil War, Southerners hated Republicans (remember Lincoln). They also fought against blacks in the Civil War. The Union used Northern blacks and Southern blacks that escaped slavery. This is why [...]
The implied assumption of a “war on terrorism” is that the war will destroy and annihilate terrorists not create more terrorist. This old school thought ignores the lesson of history. A nation can be fought and defeated in war but not an ideology. To the degree that terrorism incorporates an ideology that forces a conflict [...]
An acquaintance of mine told me several years ago that the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Being from Louisiana, I thought that was not the way I remembered it. I was 8 at the time so I thought I would go back and look at the historic data. On face value he [...]
