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George Bush and the return of Little Black Sambo

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 4 January 2005
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Discriminations-Minorit. Elections-Elected USA

by Jane Stillwater

Remember Goodman, Schwerner and Cheney — and the Civil Rights Summer of 1964? How brave we all were back then as we worked hand in hand for a new world of hope and justice and harmony where "colored people" would be allowed to vote.

It’s 40 years later and "colored people" are still being systematically deprived of their right to vote — only this time on such a grand scale that it would cause even Martin Luther King’s jaw to drop.

I marched in Montgomery.

I was at Malcolm X’s funeral.

I taught in freedom schools, I picketed, I marched. And for every white person like me out on the line, there were at least five "Negroes" risking their lives to have the right to vote.

Now, 40 years later, George Bush is doing every single thing he can think of to resurrect Jim Crow, Stephen Fetchet and Little Black Sambo.

In predominantly African-American precincts in Florida and Ohio in November 2004, absentee ballots were lost, people were intimidated, voting machines were not provided, legitimate voters were "purged" from voting lists, people were instructed to vote on the wrong day, provisional ballots were "lost," votes disappeared and even dead people were allowed to vote as long as they voted for George W. Bush.

I don’t know how African-Americans feel about being placed once again at the back of the bus but I know how I feel. I am totally pissed off!

In 1964, civil rights worker James Cheney was lynched because he tried to help secure Black people’s right to vote. His battered body was found at the bottom of a river in Mississippi on June 1964.

James Cheney died in order to protect EVERY American’s right to vote.

Now there is a new Cheney in town — a ruthless man who wants to turn back the clock to the bad old days of bigotry, racism and Jim Crow. Dick Cheney should be ashamed for trying to steal the souls of Black folk.

"I have a dream where a man will be judged by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin," said Martin Luther King. And to the bigoted hateful corrupt men in the White House today who are once again stealing the African-American vote, I have this to say: We stopped this criminal behavior once and we’ll stop it again.

"We SHALL overcome."

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Forum posts

  • Mrs. Stillwater, I am extremely pissed off about this whole election scandal, which happened for the second time, so I feel exactly how you feel. I cannot believe that this kind of thing is being allowed to go unnoticed as if these corrupt noe-cons have a pass to do practically anything they want to do, and they have once again picked on the Black community to steal the election. How is it that a country like Ukraine, which only became independent in a little more than a century, able to see justice in having their Supreme court recognize that the first election was a fraud, but yet over here in the supposedly greatest democracy in the world, we just have to bear witness to election fraud for the second time and no one even considers looking into or investigating blantant acts of fraud and intimidation during the electoral process over here. It kills me to know how money and politics dictates everthing that goes on this nation...it really makes me sick. What is even worse is to have an African-American participate in this kind of oppression in Ohio’s Black community. I have so many bad names that I can call at Mr. Blackwell! This administration is devilishly sneaky and corrupt, and they seem to know how to escape from scandal and criticisms of their actions using loopholes in the system....they know the system too well, and they are very well trained in the art of manipultion. These evil people need to be exposed.

  • I do not know who you are and how old you are but i am an old worrior of the movement actually 72 years and still on my way to freedom. First you can never be free until someone teaches you how to be free. no one has power over you unless you give it to them. you cannot set people free who do not want to be free. remember, every one did not leave the plantation espeacially the house nigger and remember the legacy of Willie Lynch and the curse of Ham also as long as you believe in the Christian Fath and i’ts teachings you will never be free. My name is Joseph Hampton of Chicago,Illinois.Now if my last name does not ring a bell then there is no sense of this message continuing. KUM BA YA!!!

    • Hampton? Hampton? Oh yes, don’t you have a road named after you in Virginia? (Hampton Road?) I’ve also heard of "The Hamptons" somewhere in New England. Any relation?

  • But, wait. I thought the book "Little Black Sambo" was about a boy from India. Everyone knows that there are no tigers in Africa!!

  • I lived in Mongomery and I’ve walked across the Edmund Pettis Bridge. I was also outraged that there was not more of an outcry when those white men killed brother Malcolm X.