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Mon Nov-03-08 09:57 PM
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| Just a few people I wish had lived to see tomorrow |
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Mon Nov-03-08 09:58 PM
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| 1. help us out here - #2 is Lester Maddox, is it not? |
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Mon Nov-03-08 10:01 PM
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Mon Nov-03-08 10:00 PM
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| 2. Try Rosa Parks, Barbara Jordan, |
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Shirley Chisholm, others of that ilk.
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Mon Nov-03-08 10:08 PM
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| 6. I wish Jesse Helms had lived to see it, the poisonous old bastard. |
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Mon Nov-03-08 10:09 PM
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| 8. Damn, I should have included him and Strom |
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Mon Nov-03-08 10:08 PM
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| 7. My dad, an ass-kicking Democrat, teacher, and union-man. |
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Edited on Mon Nov-03-08 10:09 PM by Chorophyll
He'd have been eighty-eight next month.
But yeah, I wish some of those old racist bastards could see this too.
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Mon Nov-03-08 10:29 PM
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| 9. Scary names from our childhood: Ax-handle Maddox, Sheriff Bull Connor. nt |
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Mon Nov-03-08 10:32 PM
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| 10. Schwerner, Goodman, Cheny, Viola Liuzzo, Abraham, Martin, John, Bobby... |
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Edited on Mon Nov-03-08 10:32 PM by Hekate
Crap, I'm starting to cry and I have to stop so I can go to the store.
Gonna buy some champagne for tomorrow. You betcha.
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Mon Nov-03-08 11:29 PM
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| 11. That was scary. I thought it was going to be loving people. Such as his grandmother, |
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Studs Terkel, Molly Ivins, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Coretta King - among the recent and not quite recent passings.
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