“We [should] reclaim the civil rights movement,” Glenn Beck said, with a straight face no less, three months ago on his radio broadcast. “We are on the right side of history, individual freedoms, and liberties. We will take that movement, because we were the people that did it in the first place.”
We? Who is we?
Marian Anderson on the Lincoln Memorial Steps, Easter Sunday 1939.
Emmett Till.
Rosa Parks.
Medger Evers.
Michael Schwerner.
Jimmie Jackson.
James Reeb.
Viola Liuzzo.
Cynthia Wesley.
Andrew Goodman.
Denise McNair.
James Chaney.
Addie Mae Collins.
Little Rock 7.
Charlene Hunter.
James Meredith.
Robert Kennedy.
Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Martin Luther King.on the Lincoln Memorial steps -- and in Memphis.
Where was Glenn Beck?
The “we” to which Glenn Beck belongs is the “we” that said no.
The “we” he belonged to cried out for ---
“States Rights” IE white rights to enslave the black population
“Local Control” IE white rights to keep the black population uneducated and the white population in power
“Socialism!” IE decrying the Congress passing equal rights laws and the executive enforcing equal rights laws
“Communism!” IE White supremacists branding their equal rights opponents with a Russian system when the equal rights proponents insisted that black and whites get equal opportunities to the best jobs.
“Tyranny!” IE white supremacists complaining when their civil rights opponents insisted that blacks vote free in all the elections, too.
Where was Beck any way in the 1950s and 1960s whenever black people and their allies cried, “freedom” ?
I find Glenn Beck’s fatuous, dishonorable effrontery utterly monumental.
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