--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > While a few articles does not make me an Al Gore Sr. scholar, and I > am open to more information, the above record appears tobe clearly > not of one whe was a "life-long segragationist". But rather of a > pragmatist who appears to have supported most civil rights > legislation, which took a bit of courage while representing a jim > crow south in transition, and took a stand against one bill (a big > one albeit) on the convicion that it was not practical, not because > he opposed the goal, a decision he later came to deeply regret.
That's a good summary. And it's the standard view of Gore, has been all along--until the right wing decided they were going to smear him as a segregationist as a way of attacking his son when he was running for president. By that time, many voters were too young to know who Al Gore Sr. was and be familiar with his record, and Gore himself had just conveniently died and couldn't defend himself. So it was relatively easy for the right to get away with the slander. The folks who started this revisionist history of Gore knew very well what the truth was, of course. Many in their audience, however, had no idea they were being lied to. Many still don't. The whole idea of Gore as a segregationist is as ludicrous as it would be to say Bella Abzug didn't support women's rights. If you don't know who Bella Abzug was, though, why should you question it? It's just unspeakably vile. And it is *typical* of the way the right wing operates these days. This is just one of many, many similar horror stories. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
