--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > <snip> > > > Kind of like George Wallace. A Racist segregationist with power > as > > > Governor but changed his ways when it was too late to be able > to > > > do anything about it. A missed opportunity, sadly. > > > > Al Gore Sr. was anything *but* a racist > > segregationist. He was known for his > > very courageous pro-civil rights stances > > and votes in Congress. > > > > If you've heard otherwise, that should be > > a wakeup call to you that the people you're > > listening to are dishonest. > > > > This extraordinarily slimy slander against > > Al Gore, Sr., was cooked up by the right wing > > during the 2000 election in an attempt to > > smear Al Gore, Jr. > > did they cook up the story of Al Gore Junior's black Nanny who used > to travel with the family by car from Tennessee to D.C. and when Al > Gore Sr. would stop at Whites-only restaurants that the Nanny had > to stay behind in the car? As she tells it, Jr. felt sorry for her > and had to bring lunch out to her outside?
As you know, Shemp, we've been over this already. There weren't any restaurants that served both blacks and whites; they had no choice. Gore's parents used this situation as the basis for lectures to their children on the evils of segregation. Just a point about spin: To say Al Jr. "felt worry for her and had to bring lunch out to her outside" is designed to sound as though his parents didn't care and would have let her go hungry, which is not, of course, the case. And another bit of spin: > This is the wonderful Al Gore Sr. that you so rever, Judy? I don't "revere" him, nor have I ever described him as "wonderful." I don't whether he was wonderful. I recognize him for having been a champion of civil rights, and I'll correct the record when right-wingers try to slime him as a racist segregationist. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
