Firing Line With William F. Buckley: ‘Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Wallace Crusade’

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– Judge Leander Perez: Louisiana.

Source:The New Democrat 

“Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Wallace Movement. Episode 095, Recorded on April 15, 1968: Guest: Leander Perez.”

From Firing Line With William F. Buckley 

“Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Wallace Crusade. Episode 088, Recorded on January 24, 1968 Guest: George C. (George Corley) Wallace.”

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– Interviewing Governor C. Wallace in 1968.

From Firing Line With William F. Buckley 

“Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Wallace Crusade. Episode 088, Recorded on January 24, 1968 Guest: George C. (George Corley) Wallace For more information about this program, see…

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– Governor George C. Wallace: D. Alabama.

From Rick Donald

Bill Buckley was a true Conservative and he would’ve taken the more progressive or liberal stance against Wallace when it came to civil rights and segregation. Or least that it how it would seem. I even as a Liberal believe you can be a Conservative and still believe in commonsense American values like liberty, equality, equal rights and civil liberties. But that is me.

I never heard of Leander Perez from Louisiana before I saw this video. But apparently he was both Governor of Louisiana and a judge in Louisiana and this interview was done in 1968. And they were talking segregation and the civil rights laws. And the Governor telling Bill Buckley that he’s not a racist even though he says Negros (which is what African-Americans back then were called) are morally inferior to Caucasian-Americans. And Perez saying that he’s being honest and that is the truth, “why hide it”? With Buckley replying “so you are an honest bigot”.

Governor George C. Wallace was a Dixiecrat, a right-wing (at least on social cultural issues) Nationalist who was basically still fighting the Civil War and wanting to lead Confederates in that war. Not ready to perhaps even see African-Americans as people, let alone as Americans deserving of the same rights and protections, as well as responsibilities as European-Americans. Bill Buckley was a Conservative. And one of the conservative values is treating individuals as exactly that. And not treating people as members of groups. Worst or better simply because of their race.

The so-called Wallace Movement of the South of the 1960s and 1970s, was different. And more of a racially based nationalistic movement of Southern Caucasians, predominantly Protestant and perhaps even Anglo-Saxon. Who felt having African-Americans in their community was some type of an invasion. When the fact was and still is that Africans are just as American as Europeans and as such deserving of the same rights as European-Americans and every other race in America. The Wallace Movement simply saw African-Americans as inferior. And not deserving of the same rights and protections.

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The Daily Conversation: Long Lost Martin Luther King Speech

 

Freedom Fighter

Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat

The thing that I may respect most about Dr. King was his ability to make his case to the country simply based on the facts. With a very sober demeanor that was designed to bring people to his cause based on the facts. That what he was talking about in accomplishing were equal rights under the law. That the United States Constitution guarantees everyone and that all Americans were supposed to be treated equally. And that we were entitled to these rights based under the United States Constitution.

Dr. King wasn’t calling for special rights or treatment for African-Americans. Just the same rights that Caucasian-Americans had and that no one was supposed to be discriminated against based on race. And treated better or worst because of their race. That we are all supposed to be treated equally under the law. And that it wasn’t some law that needed to be passed to guarantee our rights, because these rights were already guaranteed to all Americans again under the United States Constitution.

Dr. King also understood that for him to achieve the goals of his movement, which was racial equality under law, that he was going to need help. That African-Americans couldn’t make this happen on their own. That they needed other Americans including Caucasians as well. Simply because his community was outnumbered and need others to make their goals reality.

The Daily Conversation: Long Lost Dr. Martin Luther King Speech

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PBS: NewsHour: Gwen Ifill- U.S. Delegate Eleanore H. Norton: ‘On Organizing the March on Washington’

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From Wikipedia

“Decades before delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton would represent her district as a congresswoman on Capitol Hill, she worked as one of the original organizers for the March on Washington. Fifty years later, Holmes Norton reflects with Gwen Ifill on her efforts, part of a series of discussions on the legacy of August 28, 1963.”

From the PBS NewsHour

Organizing a march that became the most important event and speech in the American civil rights movement. That was about, yes, civil rights and equal rights for all Americans but also about economics and social and economic justice for low-income Americans.

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Sikivu Hutchinson: ‘Dr King Speaks Deep’

Source:Sikivu Hutchinson– Dr. Reverend Martin L. King I believe in 1968.

“Dr King speaks deep”

From Sikivu Hutchinson

Sounds like Dr. King talking about proposing Federal public funding for African-American colleges and universities.

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PBS: Newshour- Gwen Ifill & William P. Jones- ‘March on Washington Had More Radical Roots Than Remembered’

Source:PBS NewsHour– Gwen Ifill interviewing Professor William P. Jones.

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From Wikipedia

“Historian William P. Jones joins Gwen Ifill to offer an overview of how the March on Washington came to be, why President Kennedy feared it would cause negative aftermath and what roles women of color played on that historic day. Their discussion is one a series of conversations looking back at the legacy of August 28, 1963.”

From the PBS NewsHour

The 1963 March on Washington was about individual freedom and equal rights for African-Americans. That is how the civil rights movement started out in the 1950s and 60s.

But as the movement moved along and by the time the late 1960s came around especially after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1965 Voting Rights Act and 1968 Fair Housing Law all passed Congress and were signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, the movement then shifted towards economic issues and policy.

What Socialists call economic justice and social justice which are about addressing poverty in America and creating an economic system that expanded economic opportunity to more Americans especially low-income Americans and wasn’t exclusively for African-Americans, but Americans in general who lived in poverty and had no hope for a bright future.

The civil rights movement moves from equal rights under law for all Americans in the early and mid 1960s, to economic and social justice by the late 1960s. And had a real social democratic feel to it and moving American past the New Deal and Great Society and building off of those agendas. Which is what Socialists especially on the Left say further Left in the Democratic Party and Green Party, talk about doing today.

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RBG Street Scholar: James Baldwin & Dick Gregory- ‘Baldwin’s Nigger (1969)’

Source:RBG Street Scholar– about James Baldwin’s 1969 documentary.

You can also see this post at The New Democrat, on WordPress.

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“RBG-James Baldwin and Dick Gregory Baldwin’s Nigger (1969)”

From RBG Scholar

James Baldwin’s message seems to be about individual empowerment and individual freedom, that African-Americans should empower themselves and standup for their own lives and take charge of their own lives. And perhaps even stop complaining. Not forget about all the injustices that came to this community before, but for this community to move forward, they need to take control of their own lives and build their own lives and communities.

Dick Gregory, who what I’ve heard from him, sounds more like Martin King, then Malcolm X, when it came to the civil rights movement, or the Black Power movement. Someone who not only believes in non-violence, but believes in social democracy and democratic socialism when it comes to solving the problems of the African-American community. In this speech, sounds more like Malcolm X. Talking about personal responsibility, to go along with individual freedom and empowerment.

In this Baldwin speech he seems to be arguing that African-Americans, should stand up and take their freedom and build their own community. And not expect others to do that for them. Sounds very much like Malcolm X. Fighting violence with violence, which is essentially what Malcolm X preached when it came to racist Caucasians who abuse African-Americans, would’ve not of accomplished what was needed to end racist laws and state-sponsored racism. Because it wouldn’t have brought other communities to support the African-American freedom fighters.

But individual freedom through education and economic development and infrastructure in underserved communities, would give African-Americans the tools that they need to live in freedom.

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Universal Newsreels: President Eisenhower & President Khrushchev- ‘New Diplomacy: 8/03/1959’

Source:Universal Newsreels– President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican, Texas) talking about the visit of President Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Union)

Source:The Daily Times

“Ike special press conference, reads joint text, that Khrushchev has accepted invitation to visit U.S., and Ike will visit USSR (partial newsreel).”

From Universal Newsreels

Just another example of why Dwight Eisenhower was such a qualified and effective Cold War President, because he was such a high ranking general during World War II leading Allied Forces in Europe and being in charge of defeating Nazism and other fascists ideologies in Europe during World War II. So when he became President of the United States in 1953. he was more than well-prepared to take on another form of fascism which was communism and the leader of communism in the world at the time being the Soviet Union of Russia.

So when President Nikita Khrushchev comes to America in 1959 to visit President Eisenhower to talk and even negotiate with the United States, Dwight Eisenhower because of his World War II and Cold War background, was more than capable and credible to discuss issues with Communist Russia. Because you could never accuse Dwight Eisenhower of having Far-Left or other communist leniencies and respect for the Soviet Union. Because he was a man who just didn’t hate communism publicly, but someone who fought against Nazism and fascism in the 1940s in Europe leading Allied Forces.

President Eisenhower’s credibility against communism, was fairly similar to the record that Richard Nixon had against communist first in Congress, but later as Vice President.

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