--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@...> wrote: > > OOOOH! That's a Bingo! >
Nope. Ms Dowd was right. - - Wilson is a member of the organization, Sons of Confederate Veterans, reports Dave Niewert of Crooks and Liars <http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/obama-heckler-joe-wilson-member\ -neo> , which "as the Southern Poverty Law Center has detailed assiduously <http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1027> , has been taken over in the past decade by radical neo-Confederates who favor secession and defend slavery as a benign institution." Wilson served as an aide to the late segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, who is credited with conducting the longest filibuster in Senate history <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/us/strom-thurmond-foe-of-integration-\ dies-at-100.html> -- against the 1957 civil rights bill. When Thurmond's bi-racial daughter, fathered out of wedlock with an African-American teenage girl, came forward in 2003 -- after Thurmond's death -- Wilson castigated Thurmond's daughter, saying he did not believe her story. Essie Mae Washington-Williams was conceived of a union Thurmond had with his family's 16-year-old maid. Thurmond was 22 at the time. "It's a smear on the image that [Thurmond] has as a person of high integrity who has been so loyal to the people of South Carolina," Wilson said, according to TPM <http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/you-lie-not-the-first-\ time-rep-wilsons-emotions-got-the-best-of-him.php> . Wilson later apologized to Washington-Williams. > --- On Mon, 9/14/09, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: > > > From: shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Maureen Dowd, racist > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 10:34 PM > > > > > > > For all I know, Joe Wilson could be a racist. I simply don't know much about him to come to such a conclusion. > > I certainly think he was rude and inappropriate when he called out "you lie!" But being rude and inappropriate doesn't automatically make you a racist. > > But projecting racism on to such a situation, in my opinion does. And that's exactly what the racist New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd did when she wrote: > > "But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!" > > When people hear "unspoken words" without any other apparent justification for HEARING those words, one is, I believe, projecting their own inner values, beliefs and prejudices on to the situation. >
