The Elephant in the Livingroom of our Country

[JoMama49]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-families8jan08.story

This is a good article in this morning's LA Times. I'm posting the link here because I think it has some really good talking points and sound bites for us to use when the RW noise machine revs up with their's.

[inslee08]

1. Wrong link

I do believe this is the wrong link...the story is about the new indictment in the "Mississippi Burning" case.

[Eric J in MN]

3. Right link. That is what the

the widow of Michael Schwerner, Rita Bender, says about racism in the article.

[JoMama49]

4. No actually Inslee, it is the correct link -- I got so angry on

Thursday watching the Repugs trying once again to dismiss the Democrats who were defending the right of all citizens to vote, that I believe this article correlates more than we realize. Those guys who were killed in the Mississippi burning in 1964 went there to register black citizens to vote. And, here we are today, in 2005, and they're still trying to suppres the black vote. I think it is relevant.

"Racism is the elephant in the living room of this country," said Rita Bender, 62. "And we pretend it does not exist. Until we acknowledge it, until we acknowledge the past, we are not moving forward."

[Eric J in MN]

2. "The importance of this case

is to use it to talk about the result of racism and state-sponsored terror."

-the widow of Michael Schwerner, Rita Bender

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-families8jan08.story