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By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyIn one of comedian's Louis C.K.'s routines, he jokes that even well-educated whites tend to indulge in a little wishful thinking when it comes to recalling our country's history. Each year, he says, they "add 100 years to how long ago slavery was," guessing the number at maybe 400, instead of realizing it's closer to 140 -- "two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back-to-back." And, he adds, it's not as though it's been "parades and presents ever since." It's funny, as most of the best jokes are, because it's rooted in truth. His words crossed my mind when I came face to face with B.B. ...
School Desegregation Battle: A Thing of the Past . . . and the Present
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- "Courage: The Carolina Story That Changed America" has returned to its original home at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte after a long time on the road. It took the story of the South Carolina case that led to the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision -- striking down school segregation -- to Atlanta, Baltimore, New York and the Museum of Tolerance, a Simon Wiesenthal Center museum in Los Angeles. Parts of the exhibition were used in a tour of South African museums arranged by the U.S. State Department. As it moves back into ...
A Son of Mississippi: Haley Barbour And the Citizens Councils
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican candidate for president in 2012, raised blood pressures on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line this week with comments he made recently about his old home town. Speaking to his interviewer at the Weekly Standard, in a story entitled "The Boy from Yazoo City," Gov. Barbour spoke glowingly about the integration of public schools back in 1970. He said: "You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody ...
C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: Race and Affirmative Action
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the seventh in a series of Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the laws that have shaped our lives in countless ways. The latest tape in the series, focusing on the regents of the University of California v. Bakke affirmative action case in 1978, will be heard on C-SPAN Radio ...
Where the Gay Marriage Debate Should End
By Willy Hameline - Politics DailyIt is a wonderful feeling to have a say in something you really believe in. Earlier this month, atop the ballot in Maine, Question 1 gave voters like myself the chance to determine the fate of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Question 1 was a veto – a "Yes" vote would quash marriage equality, a "No" vote would uphold it. Maine's ballots are charmingly low-tech. Two broken arrows – one for yes, the other for no – point at the issues, and it's up to the voter to color in the one he favors. When all was said and done, a majority – 52.7 percent ...
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