Sunday, September 09, 2018

Possible 2020 Preview? (Photo)

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Anonymous said...

Bring it on. Can they produce an original copy of their birth certificate with embossed seal for examination?

Sunday, September 9, 2018 at 4:41:00 PM EDT
David In TN said...

Re our telephone conversion a few nights ago, you told me about Rudy Giuliani going to a meeting of black bigwigs soon after being elected Mayor and being dumped on. I told you about a meeting AG Robert Kennedy had with a group of black entertainers/intellectuals organized by James Baldwin in 1963.

They attacked RFK as a group, though some came up afterward and made nice. I found the account I remembered in David Halberstam's 1968 book, "The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy."

Halberstam, Witcover, etc never got over RFK's 1968 campaign and assassination, which WAS a wholly evil act. The relevant passage by David Halberstam (1934-2007) is on page 143:

"In 1963 Robert Kennedy decided to meet with a group of Negro intellectuals and artists. Just why was never clear, but the impression was strong that he wanted to hear what was on their minds..."

"...The meeting was a disaster. Kennedy totally misjudged the temper of the Negroes who, meeting in a large group with a white man, all went to the more militant position. (Six years later I asked him what he learned from the meeting. He said, 'Never meet with more than two or three Negroes at a time. Never with eighteen. With eighteen it's hopeless. Everyone has to be more militant. Now I realize what they are saying, and why, and why they were so angry, but what was hard to take at the time were the ones who let me take the roasting and then came over afterward to sympathize.')

Halberstam continued in a apologetic way. Would you like to have explained it to David Halberstam?

Sunday, September 9, 2018 at 6:50:00 PM EDT

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