Is anyone else being alert stalked and over noticed?

[1StrongBlackMan]

188. +1 ...

And don't stop there ... the great civil rights heroes, JFK and LBJ, weren't all that ... JFK, as a Senator, voted against Civil Rights legislation ... twice, and LBJ's pushing of the CRA of 1964 was more a recognition of the 125,000 WWII and the 600,000 Korean War veterans that (mistakenly, IMO) saw the death of President Kennedy, as the last, best peaceful chance at getting the rights that the US government trained them to fight for others, but were being denied here at home ... then with the assassination of Dr. King, LBJ recognized that had he NOT worked to pass the CRA, there would violence.

But that is not the liberal history that we must know ... pointing out all of the above is seen as "divisive" because ... well ... the liberal "heroes" weren't/aren't our heroes. (In the words of Public Enemy, "The face of my heroes don't appear on a stamp!&quot

I always think, how would i be treated during that time when people wax nostalgic. The answer is always, worse than today. So i want to go forward not back.

And there's where the great "old white man" rub appears ... as DUer Frazzled pointed out (http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5060816), things are so bad now because this is the 1st time since the great depression that white men look around and see that they are really suffering, as a class ... in previous economic times, the only ones that were holding down good paying (working class) jobs were white men; now they see that they are not immunized to the suffering that they previously didn't have to think about. So of course they wish to go back to the "good old days."