As Heard on The Stephanie Miller Show
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Integration Report
The Civil Rights Movement received an infusion of energy with a student sit-in at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. On February 1, 1960, four students Ezell A. Blair Jr. (now known as Jibreel Khazan), David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College, an all-black college, sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth's policy of excluding African Americans. These protesters were encouraged to dress professionally, to sit quietly, and to occupy every other stool so that potential white sympathizers could join in. The sit-in soon inspired other sit-ins in Richmond, Virginia; Nashville, Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia. As students across the south began to "sit-in" at the lunch counters of a few of their local stores, local authority figures sometimes used brute force to physically escort the demonstrators from the lunch facilities.
The "sit-in" technique was not new—as far back as 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality sponsored sit-ins in Chicago, St. Louis in 1949 and Baltimore in 1952. In 1960 the technique succeeded in bringing national attention to the movement. The success of the Greensboro sit-in led to a rash of student campaigns throughout the South. Probably the best organized, most highly disciplined, the most immediately effective of these was in Nashville, Tennessee. By the end of 1960, the sit-ins had spread to every southern and border state and even to Nevada, Illinois, and Ohio.
Demonstrators focused not only on lunch counters but also on parks, beaches, libraries, theaters, museums, and other public places. Upon being arrested, student demonstrators made "jail-no-bail" pledges, to call attention to their cause and to reverse the cost of protest, thereby saddling their jailers with the financial burden of prison space and food.
In April, 1960 activists who had led these sit-ins held a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina that led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC took these tactics of nonviolent confrontation further, to the freedom rides.
The "sit-in" technique was not new—as far back as 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality sponsored sit-ins in Chicago, St. Louis in 1949 and Baltimore in 1952. In 1960 the technique succeeded in bringing national attention to the movement. The success of the Greensboro sit-in led to a rash of student campaigns throughout the South. Probably the best organized, most highly disciplined, the most immediately effective of these was in Nashville, Tennessee. By the end of 1960, the sit-ins had spread to every southern and border state and even to Nevada, Illinois, and Ohio.
Demonstrators focused not only on lunch counters but also on parks, beaches, libraries, theaters, museums, and other public places. Upon being arrested, student demonstrators made "jail-no-bail" pledges, to call attention to their cause and to reverse the cost of protest, thereby saddling their jailers with the financial burden of prison space and food.
In April, 1960 activists who had led these sit-ins held a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina that led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC took these tactics of nonviolent confrontation further, to the freedom rides.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Video Village 04.30.10
Well, we're off to another weekend. I will beasically be recovering from whatever happned to me yesterday. DAMN, that too a lot out of me.
Now I really believe that Rush does not actually understand exactly what fuel he adds to the fire when he says things like this. When you say that you are now an "occupied country" from what seems to be a foriegn power, it does give people ideas about how to "remedy" the situation:
The difference between Glenn Beck and I is simple....whereas, "Something goes wrong" every time he's "absolutely right" about something, with me when something goes wrong, it PROVES I'M absolutly right!
More Beck: On his own mortality....
What is funny is that, I really understand where Beck is coming from. No joke. If you have seen the things I have seen and I were allowed to tell you the real truth about what's going on....well, all I can say is that I would dissapear like the Cheshire Cat...not even the smile would remain. Now I am NOT saying what Beck yammers about is correct, but the truth is that there are certain things we do not want to know...and we have instituted rules to make sure that the truth never gets out. I'm just saying....
And now as Beck has expanded to THREE blackboards (soon he'll have to do his show in letterbox Cinerama if this keeps up), he defends his conspiracy theories...
Now the #BoycottAZ protests are now spreading to all things Arizona. Including Arizona Ice Tea. Made in Noo Yawk. Damn, you're dumb.
In Chicago, they protested the law via the Arizona Diamondbacks, in town to face the Cubbies:
Oh, BTW, The D'Backs beat the cubs 13-5. Focus, people, focus!
Time now for last night's worsts:
Now, going back to the boycotts, seriously they are growing....
Wait a second.....say that again, Duncan.....
What a racist asshole.
Saving the best for last for last, Rachel Maddow's epic smackdown with the leader of FAIR, the group partially responsible for the mess Arizona finds itself in.
Here is 19 minutes and 22 seconds worth of the reason I love this woman!
Thanks to http://www.mediamatters.com/, http://www.crooksandliars.com/, http://www.youtube.com/, and http://www.msnbc.com/ for the clips
Now I really believe that Rush does not actually understand exactly what fuel he adds to the fire when he says things like this. When you say that you are now an "occupied country" from what seems to be a foriegn power, it does give people ideas about how to "remedy" the situation:
The difference between Glenn Beck and I is simple....whereas, "Something goes wrong" every time he's "absolutely right" about something, with me when something goes wrong, it PROVES I'M absolutly right!
More Beck: On his own mortality....
What is funny is that, I really understand where Beck is coming from. No joke. If you have seen the things I have seen and I were allowed to tell you the real truth about what's going on....well, all I can say is that I would dissapear like the Cheshire Cat...not even the smile would remain. Now I am NOT saying what Beck yammers about is correct, but the truth is that there are certain things we do not want to know...and we have instituted rules to make sure that the truth never gets out. I'm just saying....
And now as Beck has expanded to THREE blackboards (soon he'll have to do his show in letterbox Cinerama if this keeps up), he defends his conspiracy theories...
Now the #BoycottAZ protests are now spreading to all things Arizona. Including Arizona Ice Tea. Made in Noo Yawk. Damn, you're dumb.
In Chicago, they protested the law via the Arizona Diamondbacks, in town to face the Cubbies:
Oh, BTW, The D'Backs beat the cubs 13-5. Focus, people, focus!
Time now for last night's worsts:
Now, going back to the boycotts, seriously they are growing....
Wait a second.....say that again, Duncan.....
What a racist asshole.
Saving the best for last for last, Rachel Maddow's epic smackdown with the leader of FAIR, the group partially responsible for the mess Arizona finds itself in.
Here is 19 minutes and 22 seconds worth of the reason I love this woman!
Thanks to http://www.mediamatters.com/, http://www.crooksandliars.com/, http://www.youtube.com/, and http://www.msnbc.com/ for the clips
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