JACKSON, Miss. - James Ford Seale has remained publicly silent as he awaits trial next month on kidnapping and conspiracy charges in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers. But four decades ago, he offered his white supremacist opinions freely, to anyone who would listen.
“The time has come,” Seale’s letter said, “for the Christian people of this nation to stand up and fight for what is right in the eyes of God and man and not what a few men in congress or the senate decided on under pressure from the n------ and communists.”
The letter, which ran on the back page of the Advocate, includes several passages from the Bible that Seale interprets to mean Christians should fight, to the death if necessary, to stop the mixing of races. It was a common theme for members of the Ku Klux Klan as the civil rights movement made Mississippi its primary target.
“The so called Civil Rights Bill is nothing less than a giant step to communist dictatorship of America,” he wrote.
2007-03-26 02:09:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
One Klan poster cited in Marsh’s book declared: “Members are Christians who are anxious to preserve not only their souls for all Eternity, but who are MILITANTLY DETERMINED, God willing, to save their lives, and the Life of this Nation, in order that their descendants shall enjoy the same, full, God-given blessings of True Liberty that we have been permitted to enjoy up to now.”
Seale, too, cast anti-integration as a moral cause in his 1964 letter: “The time is here and passing fast for the people of this great nation to fight and die for what is right. If you choose to live and die under communism dictatorship, may God have mercy on your souls.”
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2007-03-26 02:09:38 · update #1
It’s not just the Christian conservatives, it’s most conservatives. Liberal Christians were very active in leading and supporting the Civil Rights movement.
2007-03-26 02:21:27 · answer #1 · answered by tribeca_belle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone with half a brain who went to church during the fifties and sixties heard the message preached in church about seperate but equal which was established to create a cast system in the United states .
Yes they could by shacks and used cars and shop in their own grocery store run by whites at higher prices .
They could go to school with outdated text books and under staffed schools and we all knew what was going on .
If you had liberal parents and grew up in the latter part of the 50's on thru the 70's they made you aware of the inequality of life for minority colored folks .
While colored people should be treated in a manner that is polite and just , what constituted that justices was oppression .
It is a shame that so called christian people would treat others as anything but equal .
Then again a delusional group of people that pray can be told anything .
2007-03-26 02:23:19 · answer #2 · answered by trouble maker 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
After World War II the US & USSR both had a very narrow focus. Everything was screened thru the cold war. When war is waged you use both the good and the bad to cause disruption in your enemies area of influence. That is what agetators do from both sides. Get good sound bites that get knee jerk reaction.
Both sides are guilty of not thinking things through to the conclusion.
2007-03-26 02:23:56 · answer #3 · answered by viablerenewables 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a stupid blanket comment.
My former preacher has pictures of when he rallied with MLK JR.
So, you're assumption that ALL Christian Conservatives were opposed to Civil Rights is stupid.
2007-03-26 02:14:37 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
who gives a rats *** what this cracker has to say about anything? hes about to go to jail...and no one outside the christian conservatives circle takes christian conservatives seriously anymore anyway...they have become silly and irrelevant to society at large but still do pose a real threat due to their strong influence in politics.
2007-03-26 02:54:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Seale is not a christian by any means, he was a klansman, that preached hate and violence to everyone.
2007-03-26 02:14:15 · answer #6 · answered by Villain 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The talibangelicals of this generation selectively forget these little truths.
2007-03-26 02:29:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes and they're still opposing civil rights for all minorities.
2007-03-26 02:14:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes ,and they have been on the wrong side every since .
2007-03-26 02:14:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋