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In reply to the discussion: Secret Service didn't like African Americans in 1963. Ask Agent Abraham Bolden. [View all]gratuitous
(82,849 posts)30. I agree, the past can't be changed
But by not bringing it up, we fall prey to hucksters and mountebanks who would have us believe that the way things are is the way things have always been, there's no point in trying to change things, and that the icons of our past would endorse the inequities of the present.
Republicans especially have been adept at trying to graft yesterday's heroes onto their regressive schemes, claiming that President Kennedy or Dr. King would have endorsed their greedy machinations. By maintaining and communicating a truer picture of the past we can help chart our way to a better future, and blunt the efforts of those who would bring back the worst of the past dressed up in modernist tropes.
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Secret Service didn't like African Americans in 1963. Ask Agent Abraham Bolden. [View all]
Octafish
Oct 2014
OP
You are most welcome, scarletwoman! Edwin Black helped keep Abraham Bolden's story alive.
Octafish
Oct 2014
#38
For keeping his integrity, Abraham Bolden was put in a psych ward and force-fed drugs.
Octafish
Oct 2014
#22
Pres. Obama should issue a pardon to this man so he won't still have the stigma of being a
tblue37
Oct 2014
#5
They couldn't have Mr Bolden interfering with their plans for Mr Kennedy. n/t
951-Riverside
Oct 2014
#6
It's my bet that the WH is working on pardons for Bush and Cheney and the hell with this
rhett o rick
Oct 2014
#25
''He chose peace. They marked him for death.'' -- James W. Douglass, PhD. and man of peace, himself
Octafish
Oct 2014
#39
Excerpt from book review: 'You're the ''Jackie Robinson'' of the Secret Service.'
Octafish
Oct 2014
#45
Every time I read anything about JFK, I think how different history could have been!
LongTomH
Oct 2014
#48