Why not listen to what Julian Bond really said?

[Cocoa]

a little Googling shows that Bond has been talking about the "Confederate swastika" for years, and that what he is saying is much more interesting and meaningful than the ridiculous WorldNetDaily version.

I'm pretty confident if we ever get a transcript of Bond's Fayetteville speech, we'll see that Bond's speech is similar to for example the one before from 2004...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/18914/

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 marked a beginning of the dependence of the Republican Party on the politics of racial division to win elections and to gain power. By playing the race card in election after election they've appealed to that dark underside of American culture, to that minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality.

They preach racial neutrality and they practice racial division. They celebrate Dr. King and they misuse his message. Their idea of reparations is to give war criminal Jefferson Davis a pardon. Their idea of a pristine environment is a parking lot before the lines are painted in. Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the confederate swastika flying side by side. Their idea of compassion is to ask the guest at the millionaire's banquet if they want an extra helping or a second dessert. They've tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignored the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban-wing of American politics.

And now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution. They want to make one group of Americans outsiders to our common heritage. They want to do what has never been done before, to amend the Constitution to create a group of second-class citizens. Our Constitution is the last hope of freedom, it cannot become a carrier of prejudice and ignorance.

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[w13rd0]

1. AMEN!!!!!!

"And now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."

Yup, that they do, and that's just where they'll start.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Tell it Mr. Bond! n/t

[EC]

3. I've always liked that man.. n/t

[cantstandbush]

4. None of the cowardly media whores would have Julian on to speak for

himself. Instead we get uninformed idiots like Tucker to tell us what Bond meant.