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Well wasn't it Al Jolson who used to get down one one knee in blackface
and sing Mammy - now I do not think he meant to offend anybody and in
fact as a jew he above all knew what it was like to be discriminated
against because of race or religion.....but he did get down on his knees
in blackface did he not?
So Gephardt throws White at Bush - well I remembe Gephardt trying to
degrade John Glenn along with - well the papers called them all, these
Democrats at the time who would be Kings - Snow White and the 7
Dwarves.....and Gephardt his story here is almost funny.....
Now we have a Mrs. Blackface replacing Carnahan, the democrat who died
in the plane crash-------pretty soon we will have widows ony seats in
the senate -
wasn't it Al Jolson who also sang:
Mammy, Mammy - the suns shines east,
the sun shines west;
But we know where the sun shines best......
They were speaking of moonshine.....days of speakeasies with crooked
police receiving money from the mob.....liquors that sometimes a person
would go to bed at night and wake up bliond in the morning from wood
alcohol based booze.....oh the days of blackface and booze but nobody
was more insulting to the blacks, than the Al Jolsons in movie land.....
Saba
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Racism Fight Escalates
GOP Rebuts Charge With Photo of Gov. in Blackface
Missouri Republicans, upset over charges of racism against Sen. John
Ashcroft, R-Mo., have released this 1960 photograph of Democratic Gov.
Mel Carnahan, second from left. The photo originally appeared in the
Rolla Daily News on Oct. 12, 1960. (AP Photo)
By Libby Quaid
The Associated Press
W A S H I N G T O N, Oct. 25 � Furious over accusations of racism
leveled at Sen. John Ashcroft, Missouri Republicans contend that a
39-year-old newspaper photograph of Gov. Mel Carnahan in blackface shows
Carnahan is not the progressive Democrat he claims to be.
The 1960 photo unearthed by the state GOP shows Carnahan,
who is challenging Ashcroft for his Senate seat in 2000, as part of a
white quartet wearing black makeup in a minstrel show.
The race issue emerged after Ashcroft successfully led
efforts in the Senate on Oct. 5 to reject the nomination of Ronnie
White, the first black member of the Missouri Supreme Court, to a
federal judgeship.
White's supporters say race was a factor, while Ashcroft
maintains his concern was White's fitness for office, mainly his record
in death penalty cases.
GOP Research Unearths Photo
Research turned up the photo in the Rolla Daily News, the governor's
hometown paper, Missouri GOP executive director John Hancock said in an
interview Sunday.
A glossy print of the photograph and a copy of the clipping
dated Oct. 12, 1960, were provided to The Associated Press by a
Republican source on condition of anonymity. It shows Carnahan, then 26;
his brother, Bob, and two other men performing at a Kiwanis Club
fund-raiser.
Hancock denied a hand in the distribution of the picture.
"A lot of people know about it," he said. "I'm guessing somebody might
have had enough. I've had it e-mailed to me. It's out on the Internet.
It's a shocking photo."
"I know a little bit about it, because I'm a ragtime
pianist and a historian of that whole era," he said. "Minstrelsy isn't
lighthearted. It's one of the most degrading, derogatory mockeries of an
entire race of people that has ever existed.
"It bothers me when they inject race into politics, where
it doesn't belong, when their own leader has this kind of sorry, sorry
record," Hancock said.
Roy Temple, Carnahan's campaign adviser and executive
director of the Missouri Democratic Party, said the picture represents
the last time such a show was performed for the Kiwanis Club. At the
urging of Carnahan's brother, he said, the civic service group in 1961
abandoned the minstrel performance in favor of a variety show.
By that time, Carnahan's father had become the first U.S.
ambassador to the new African nation of Sierra Leone.
Changing Times
Racial sensitivity in Missouri has progressed vastly since 1960, Temple
said. "To put it in context, there were people like Frank Sinatra and
Bob Hope doing these things in the major entertainment media," he said.
"John Ashcroft can't defend what he did to Ronnie White, so
he's trying to attack Mel Carnahan," Temple added.
The governor did not respond to requests for comment
Sunday.
Arvarh Strickland, the University of Missouri's first black
professor and a one-time judicial adviser to former GOP Sen. John
Danforth, said Carnahan should be judged solely on his public service.
"Whatever was in his heart then, it's what's in his heart
now that matters," Strickland said. "It's not what he was doing or
saying in 1960, but his record as governor of Missouri that he should be
evaluated on. When you look at his record, you certainly would not
expect to see Gov. Carnahan in blackface."
The only black Republican state lawmaker, Rep. Carson Ross,
said Carnahan should apologize.
"The Klan wore hoods and these folks wore blackface," he
said. "It was racist. An intelligent person does not consciously do
something like that. He needs to repent."
SO judge "Ronnie" White by his actions and not his decisions? He would
have turned loose a murderer who killed 4 or 5 deputy sheriffs and the
wife of the sheriff......the Sheriff is an elected official who
represents all the people in his jurisdiction.....okay to shoot Sheriff
and wife - so long as they are white?
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