George Wallace's Daughter: I See My Father's Hatred In Donald Trump

[CatWoman]

“I saw daddy a lot in 2016.” - Peggy Wallace Kennedy

When George Wallace ran for president in the 1960s and 1970s, he was accompanied by his daughter, Peggy Wallace Kennedy. Wallace was the Governor of Alabama and ran for U.S. president on three unsuccessful occasions. He favored segregation and supported Jim Crow policies. According to AL.com, when Peggy attended her father’s rallies, she experienced violence and hatred from his supporters.

Now, she understands that her father’s policies were not right. Her book, “The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation,” will be released this year.

She compares Wallace’s rallies to Trump’s, saying: “Unfortunately it does look like the ‘60s now. Each of us individually need to act with compassion and pray for our democracy. I hope we don’t go back. But it looks like where we are slipping … that seems to be where the top is taking us.”

Although she never mentioned Trump’s name, she said: “I’ve never seen anything like it,” she said. “I saw daddy a lot in 2016.”

She adds, “The two greatest motivators at (Dad’s) rallies were fear and hate. There was no policy solution, just white middle-class anger.”

“We cannot go backward,” she said to teachers at the Birmingham Public Library. “We have to go forward.”

Read the full story here.

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/george-wallace-s-daughter-i-see-my-father-s-hatred-in-donald-trump-m1rfXNQqOUaQMDPdixxQ2g/?fbclid=IwAR1ssqk8_aULgiRl8kWyVl_nJ47SFHkRm0L4Fn-5toXoZwxh4ejEOSFMvVQ

[MyOwnPeace]

1. How tough..........

to grow up in such an environment. We can see what it does when we look at Jr., Eric, and Princess, and wonder about what is ahead for Barron. I look forward to reading her book.

Oh, and a final thought:

Children Learn What They Live
By Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.


If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

[volstork]

3. That poem

hung in every room in my pediatrician's office (I was born in the mid-60s). My mom put a copy in my baby book that I treasure.

[calimary]

9. Truth! I love this poem!

[JI7]

13. the Trump kids are not victims. they chose to be shitty and selfish like him

he didn't even raise them and they were not cut off from outside world like in some cases such as xtian fundies.

[Duppers]

2. Racist inlaws were Wallace supporters.

Even sent him money! My hubby is very liberal. Didn't attend their funerals and lost a big inheritance.

[alfredo]

4. I was raised with his nephews. They turned out to be racist assholes. One was a wife beater.

I caught him beating up a girl and I beat the crap out of him. When I went into the Army he told my dad I was gay. I was not, and even if I was, it was none of his business. My dad always fearing the worst from me, believed I was gay even though he came to my wedding.

At my dad's funeral, the asshole came to me, got on his knees and begged my forgiveness. I told him to go fuck himself and went back into the funeral home. Never saw him again. He died a few years later.

[Mountain Mule]

5. I also see my own father's hatred in Trump

To my dismay, my Dad was a huge supporter of Wallace back in that era. This horrified me and to this very day I still have trouble understanding why my father was so filled with bigotry. I thought we had finally moved beyond such blatant racism, but obviously, I was wrong. It's like having a flashback from PTSD everytime I read or hear tRump's racist rants.

[misanthrope]

6. This isn't a secret. She said this in 2016

Plenty of folks didn't care. Sadly, this is part of what America is.

[erronis]

7. "that seems to be where the top is taking us" - whoever the "top" is.

My guess is that it is not an imbecile like trump or any of his churning snakes that surround him.

The "top" is something outside of the normal political view. Probably much more aligned with worldwide wealth. Wealth that can only be controlled through force/terror/blackmail. The same type of force that is prevalent in the brotherhoods, the clubs of oligarchs, the super-yacht sets. The same groups that have always lived outside of the rules for the proles, the ones who pay no taxes and have no national allegiances. The same ones who would turn on their birthplace or their adopted country in a heartbeat. And not care about the collateral damage.

[patphil]

8. My 2 brother-in-laws and their wives are strong Trump supporters.

They are racists, but won't admit it. They both told me, on separate occasions, and word for word, "I suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama".
Now, you should know that they live several hours apart, and dislike each other very much...haven't talked since their mother's funeral.

But they watch Fox News and are good at parroting the talking points.
They are definitely ready to take that big step backward.

They represent the millions of racists that don't believe they are racists, and would rather vote for Trump than for a Democrat.
Which means they are most definitely racist enablers, thus racists themselves.

All had a bad case of Hillary Hatred...it's a brain cancer that eats away at logic and reason, leaving only the hate. And, you know, Trump knows how to use his base's hate.

Patrick Phillips

[hlthe2b]

10. I wonder if Lester Maddox has a similarly-appalled daughter as well.

hmmm.

[zentrum]

11. During the Central Park 5 Con

....that TRump perpetrated he said out loud that he wanted "New Yorkers to feel hate", as he did, against these boys. Without all the media hoopla, pushed largely by him, they probably would have been properly investigated and certainly not framed as they were.

The "hate" remark was truly ugly and shocking when he said it.

It's very important. Trump is running an emotional campaign. Policy doesn't touch the emotions he evokes.

[sandensea]

12. And to be fair: by the time Wallace was Trump's age, he had become a lot more conciliatory

Wallace in fact earned a lot of African-American support during his last term as governor in the 1980s.

Cheeto has only gotten more extreme with age - and will no doubt continue to do so until God (or the devil) calls him home.

[JI7]

14. didn't Wallace start out WITH black support them he turned into the racist asshole

and then i guess at the end he tried to moderate his views.

[sandensea]

15. Wallace was a demagogue, no doubt about it.

But yes, his last term as governor (1983-87) was marked by a much more humanist outlook - mainly focused on Alabama's plight, at a time much of the country was experiencing the 'Reagan recovery'.

The Deep South was in fact mostly left out of the rosy mid-1980s - which is ironic considering how many Southern white voters feel about St. Ronnie.