Daughter of segregationist forges path to tolerance
Bill Plante, CBS News, 3/6/2013
(CBS News) MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Back in 1965, Bill Plante covered the civil rights movement for CBS News. Now Bill has brought a new story that has roots in that era -- about a father's legacy of racial hatred, and a daughter's personal march toward redemption.
"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," Alabama Governor George Wallace once said at his inauguration in 1963.
Wallace personified racist defiance of civil rights. Six months later, he blocked the doors of the University of Alabama to prevent integration. ...
While enforced segregation within a society, separate drinking fountains and the like, is unworkable, almost all people of all races today have continued to self-segregate in their personal lives. In fact on university and college campuses, otherwise pictures of political correctness, you have the predictable black and Hispanic student unions, and other such race-above-all organizations, as well as most students of all races dining at separate tables, and so on. How can something be so evil and unnatural when almost all humans have naturally and routinely practiced it for eons?
A supposed hallowed news organization like CBS owes more to its viewers than simply name-calling, saying that all such racial separation is just plain old "bigotry," particularly when it is still practiced daily by those of all races in their personal lives, including probably almost all of those employed at CBS News.
A supposed hallowed news organization like CBS owes more to its viewers than simply name-calling, saying that all such racial separation is just plain old "bigotry," particularly when it is still practiced daily by those of all races in their personal lives, including probably almost all of those employed at CBS News.
Even the basic facts, through omission, are not presented accurately, since Governor Wallace like his daughter today, ended up groveling to African Americans and liberals at the end of his life. Who knows how sincere all of this may be, but obviously the financial and social rewards are all on the side of political correctness. Where would the daughter of George Wallace be going on exciting speaking tours, with all of the ego and other perks that would go with them, if she were defending the Southern way of life in the 1950s?
I was not on the side of the segregationists, but sometime listen to them again and then contemplate their ridiculous predictions that someday whites would be discriminated against. Back then even most white liberals would have been astounded that someday college and university entrance exams would be weighted against kids with white skin. Also look at what equality and democracy have done for heavily black cites like Detroit, Camden, Flint, Memphis and, irony of all ironies, Birmingham, Alabama.
CBS News definitely has some things to be proud of in its history, but the news is supposed to bring some depth and understanding to news events. Just labeling racial separation, which is still unofficially practiced by almost everyone, as being simply beyond-the-pale "bigotry" is not only lazy and unprofessional, but perfectly illustrates the part that our elite institutions now play in trying to constantly shore-up ruling political correctness, a political correctness that is meant to use misinformation, rewards and punishments to hide some very unpleasant and dangerous truths--and keep them hidden.
Posts
