Rebel Yell

By Salim Muwakkil

Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott’s retroactive endorsement of Jim Crow apartheid, at Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party on December 5, was a rebel yell in the wrong venue. His days are numbered as majority leader and, if he follows others who have lost congressional [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    One of the best I have read. Certainly, this is the first time I have read where Reagan’s campaign began at the infamous location where the three civil rights workers were slain. Racism was the obvious reason the media and others would not make even a token comment about this monumantal insult visited among Black Americans and decent white people.   

    Philippines Posted by Lisa Quiniquito on Jan 24, 2003 at 11:16 AM

    I’m glad it is only the first time you have read of this - because it is not true.  On November 13, 1979, Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the U.S. in New York City.

    Reagan did not appear near Philadelphia MI (he never did appear in Philadelphia) until August of 1980,  not quite 3 months before the election. This was at the Nashoba County Fair, where candidates had spoken for at least 100 years.

    United States Posted by Nus on May 6, 2003 at 10:14 AM
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