Was watching a program on PBS last night about the 1960's (although they did go into the early years of the 70's). They spoke with reverence of the shooting of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, but they seem to despise George Wallace who was also shot during that time period. Since George Wallace was also shot during that time frame, was is he not also remembered with fond memories?
2007-08-16 02:00:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
because all the news media were prejudiced against him. they did not know what he stood for and made him out to be something he was not. i knew him personally and worked in his campaign so i an well versed on his policies. if you didn't know the man you have no right to call names and jump to conclusions as to his policies. you in here are as bad as the media was in his day. most of you were not even born during his tenure as Alabama's governor so shut your prejudiced mouths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you know not of what you speak. you only answered to gain points and you should be ashamed for slandering a man about whom you know nothing, also there are things about the Kennedy's and some really bad things about martin Luther coon that the media wouldn't dare bring to light because of the powerful Kennedy's money and coon's power to incite race riots. I WAS THERE ....I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND FOR THE ONE WHO CALLED HIM A DIXIECRAT WELL YOU ARE ALSO TOTALLY MISINFORMED. WE WERE ALL MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTYH see how misinformed you all are???
2007-08-16 02:20:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
RUKidding?! It was George Wallace who stood in the doorway of one of the schools trying to be segregated who declared "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" He wouldn't move until he was threatened with arrest by federal marshals who fully intended to remove him if they had to. Wallace pretended to have a change of heart when he attempted to get back into politics not long before he died. I may not be the biggest Kennedy fan and I'm not a big fan of the King family, though I am of MLK Jr himself, but I couldn't mention Wallace in the same breath as any of them.
2007-08-16 09:20:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anybody whose gubernatorial rallying cry was "Segregation Forever!" isn't going to be remembered fondly by anybody. Especially by Democrats and liberal journalists who want to whitewash the historical fact that the Democratic Party was the party of the Confederacy, the KKK, Segregation and Jim Crow laws.
2007-08-16 09:20:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wallace was not a Democrat; he was a Dixiecrat. A Dixiecrat is a Right wing Republican that runs on a Democratic ticket under the disguise of a Democrat.
There are many Dixiecrats to this day in Congress from the South
2007-08-16 09:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by Mezmarelda 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
He lived after his attempt assassination and at the time was a racist. Later in life he then rejected his separate views.
2007-08-16 09:08:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
geo wallace was :"old school" south- he was not ashamed of being a racist, saw nothing wrong with it. what i found odd was a caucasian shot him not a black! i think after he was injured he realized whart a moron idiot he was and tried to change...
2007-08-16 09:09:05 · answer #6 · answered by alangj91761 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was a racist bigot. He was also a Democrat.
2007-08-16 09:06:39 · answer #7 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
um...........because he was a totally racist--maybe that had something to do with it?? just a guess.....
GL
2007-08-16 09:07:01 · answer #8 · answered by Man of Ideas 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
because he was a segregationist democrat.
2007-08-16 09:05:51 · answer #9 · answered by civil_av8r 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋