[Marxism] Judge Tom Brady -- and the New York Post

["Hunter Gray" <hunterbadbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"The purpose of this comparison is not to embarrass or humiliate anyone.  You 
can dress a chimpanzee, house-break him, and teach him to use a knife and a 
fork, but it will take countless generations of evolutionary development, if 
ever, before you can convince him that a caterpillar or a cockroach is not a 
delicacy.  Likewise the social, political, economic and religious preferences 
of the negro remain close to the caterpillar and the cockroach ..."

"Whenever and wherever the white man has drunk the cup of black hemlock, 
whenever or wherever his blood has been infused with the blood of the negro, 
the white man, his intellect and his culture have died...."

-- Judge Tom Brady of Brookhaven, Mississippi, in his Black Monday  [Citizens 
Councils of America, Jackson, Mississippi, 1954].

The above quotes constitute a mere fraction of "racist gems" -- intermixed with 
garbled versions of anthropology and history [and a multitude of warnings about 
"Communism"] -- that grace the 92 pages of the late Tom Brady's Black Monday 
[apropos of  Monday, May 17, 1954 and the Brown school desegregation decision.]

What brings this to mind, leading me to dig out my well worn copy of Judge's 
Brady's tract [which is invaluable in any course on racism or civil rights 
history], is the now well publicized cartoon in today's edition of the New York 
Post depicting two uniformed police officers shooting a chimpanzee, with the 
caption, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

Apparently stimulated in part by yesterday's tragedy involving the pet chimp 
[Travis],  the cartoon is drawing fire --  with its many critics feeling that 
it has something much to do with Barack Obama.  And I'm inclined to agree.

Obama's election constitutes a super heavy blow against American racism -- but 
that illness has more lives than a great big rattlesnake.

Judge Brady's tract was the major founding and launching document of the 
[white] Citizens Council movement -- "States Rights / Racial Integrity" -- 
which dominated Mississippi for more than a decade and developed major bastions 
in other states of the Old South.  As the '60s and the Civil Rights Movement 
progressed, the Council movement began to break up and slowly fade -- even in 
its Magnolia base -- and, finally reduced to a group of older men, hung it up 
and went out of business in the early '90s. [Its latter day wistful successor, 
the Council of Conservative Citizens, doesn't amount to much by any yardstick.]

Long before the death of the Citizen's Councils and in the twilight of his own 
life, Judge Tom Brady admitted that he had been completely wrong on the matter 
of racial integration -- taking the position that it was working out well.  He 
felt there were still some problems in the school sector but went on to say 
those would ultimately work out as well.

Perhaps his ghost could speak to the leadership of the New York Post.

Hunter [Hunter Bear]


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