Missing the ending…
The above picture of the George Wallace quote from 1963 appeared for a time as the footer image at Southern Nationalist Network run by Michael Cushmen (Palmetto Patriot) down in South Carolina. While it is no longer the footer it is still part of the images that are displayed with pride on Michael’s website. I was curious to the context of the quote so I did a simple google search for the first sentence and here is what I found.
Here is the quote in full context or at least the full paragraph…
“Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.”
It seems that Palmetto Patriot did a little convenient editing and forgot to put the most important part of that speech in his quote. But then again he does not want anyone to think his southern nationalist website is geared towards a certain color of southerner. It should also be noted that the League of the South and Connie Chastain/Ward endorse the SNN by linking to it on their sites.
It’s interesting that it is this particular time of Wallace’s life they are focusing on. Wallace changed his mind over time.
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Wallace-Testifies-He-Fought-Desegregation-But-Has-Changed-His-Mind/id-5a55d1a54e90015603b34306a9916f75
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Since we know that desegregation was one of the most damaging things done to degrade the education of black Americans, George Wallace’s full quote really is better than the shortened one.
Really, folks, those that think blacks were just dying to go to school with whites should do their homework, the fact of the matter was an is, they simply wanted an equal educational process, not a combined one.
Well Pattycakes since you think you are the master historian, you go right ahead and post some links to prove your point.
“. . .we know that desegregation was one of the most damaging . . .”
Bless your heart. Your concern for black Americans is touching. What you mean, “we?” What *we* know is that racist white supremacist attitudes and resistance to desegregation was one of the most damaging things “done” to degrade the education of African Americans during that era.
And how presumptuous of you to dare speak of what black people “wanted” in that arena. Bet them “happy darky” slaves didn’t want emancipation either, did they?
They know exactly what they’re doing. Their message isn’t a whit different than that of the Citizen’s Councils of the 1950s/60s
Since you are celebrating George Wallace Pat. Why don’t you talk about how he recanted on his statements and testified against segregation.
Therein lies the biggest problem with people who envy the history of the past. History does not stand still, as evidenced by Wallace’s changes in attitude about segregation later in his life.
Those who attempt to freeze him in time cannot recognize the basic tenet of history.
It moves.