Voter purge in key Indiana County goes overboard

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45. Indiana--The Post-Civil War Confederate State Wannabee That Long's for a Rematch

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Went to Purdue there, and NEVER could figure out those assholes. They refused to set their clocks to daylight savings time when that system was specifically set up for them. What a wasted state....and now this. Not surprised at all. The "birthplace" of the KKK for that state is Kokomo, Indiana...just a few miles down the road from Purdue/West Laughalot, Indianoplace. They even had a display window in the Student Union building in a lame attempt to recruit new members! We had student racists burning crosses (made out of computer punch cards) on campus--outside the dorm windows of African-American students. Coretta S. King came to speak about it at a massive backlash rally afterwards. I got to meet Sam Day; Editor of "Progressive Magazine" at that rally.

When South African Apartheid was in "full bloom," we built a small shantytown replica, and began a pro-divestment/anti-Apartheid Occupation on the grass area outside the Admin building. Pro-Apartheid (Really!) students came by with watermelon and fried chicken. There was a student-student confrontation of course. It even made the cover of Newsweek. Nothing seemed to get resolved except the makeshift shantytown had to go..

The birthstate of unreconstructed racist Earl Butz,** Indiana now seems bent on revisiting their past, and possibly staying there.....I earned two Masters in two different fields of engineering there, and that was the ONLY reason I was hung up there in that wasteland of a state.

Now, it is quite obvious that the Hoosiers have completely forgotten their "Underground Railroad" past, and have gone back to the future with their racism-based electioneering tactics. So, what else ISN'T new?


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“The only thing the coloreds
are looking for in life
are tight pussy, loose shoes
and a warm place to shit."

News outlets revealed that Butz had made a racist remark in front of entertainer Pat Boone and former White House counsel John Dean while aboard a commercial flight to California following the Republican National Convention.

The October 18, 1976 issue of Time let the cat out of the bag:
Butz started by telling a dirty joke involving intercourse between a dog and a skunk. When the conversation turned to politics, Boone, a right-wing Republican, asked Butz why the party of Lincoln was not able to attract more blacks. The Secretary responded with a line so obscene and insulting to blacks that it forced him out of the Cabinet last week and jolted the whole Ford campaign. Butz said that "the only thing the coloreds are looking for in life are tight p – - – - , loose shoes and a warm place to s – - -."

Dean used the line in Rolling Stone, attributing it to an unnamed Cabinet officer. But New Times magazine enterprisingly sleuthed out Butz’s identity by checking the itineraries of all Cabinet members. Some newspapers published the remark. Others stated only that Butz had said something too obscene to print, and invited their readers to contact the editors if they wanted more information. The San Diego Evening Tribune offered to mail a copy of the whole quotation to anyone who requested it; more than 3,000 readers did. Butz was forced to resign his cabinet post on October 4, 1976. He became the most sought–after Republican speaker on the lecture and after dinner circuits, and was named dean emeritus of Purdue University’s School of Agriculture. That’s the story the "mainstream" newspaper editors were protecting all you young voters from.

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