Segregation is "over" in Alabama only because of federal government supercession and intervention. Our 1901 state constitution mandates shoving the Black man to the back of the bus, making him pee in a separate bathroom, etc. We tried to repeal the racist language in the constitution by referendum: Amendment 2 in 2004. The movement to defeat Amendment 2 was led by state Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker, a close ally of Roy Moore. When Roy Moore ran for governor, his first appearance in an Athens church was by invitation of Berea Baptist Church's Rev. Pat Lawrence. Pat Lawrence said in a July 2, 2007 sermon that the racist language in the state constitution is divinely inspired, "has the hand of God all over it."
Is that what my Savior died for, dynamiting little Black girls in church? Dynamite terrorism was very common in the Deep South in the late 1950's. Who endorses such behavior today in the name of Christ?
About a week before the Nov. 2006 elections, Governor Bob Riley came to Athens to campaign for Ronnie Coffman, who is now Vice Chairman of the Limestone County GOP, member of the lunatic far-right Alliance for Limited Government, and a close ally of Klan-affiliated Judge Terri Willingham Thomas. The Riley campaign directed Athens police to forbid African-Americans from stepping into the audience zone. Riley, while running for re-election, fired a Polish-American moderate GOP campaign manager and replaced him with a guy who fought in league with the Taliban in the 1980's.
Unrepentant anti-Semite Shelton Smith is leader of the Independent Baptists, a splinter group further right than the Southern Baptist Convenetion. He publishes Sword of the Lord. Hugh Pyle of Panama City, Fla., is his henchman in charge of anti-Black activities. Hugh Pyle published this in the Aug 10 2007 edition of the Sword:
"When we started busing kids to kingdom come to obtain racial balance, we opened a big keg of worms ... about the only alternative is to find a real private Christian school."
On May 4 2007 Hugh Pyle published this:
"Don Imus ...made some stupid remarks ... but they were obviously very tame compared to what the rappers and some actors say on the air all the time."
BRIEF DIGRESSION
Tom Metzger, leader of the White Aryan Resistance, was convicted in 1990 for the racially motivated murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugetu Seraw. Metzger said this about a year ago about African-Americans:
"For people who can't talk, they are obsessed with communications devices."
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH
Hugh Pyle said this on June 1 2007:
"High school students have their own cell phones. Some even use them in class. Many of these students receive free school lunches because of their 'poverty'."
HUGH PYLE ON IMMIGRATION: AUG 10
"We knew yesteryear's immigrants would work ... illegal immigrants know that they would soon take over if we let them in illegally [sic] that is, until they learned from others that the government would take care of them even if they didn't work."
Sounds like the Rev. Hugh Pyle is okay with immigrants from Scotland and Germany, but Mexicans are pre-programmed to be welfare cheats. Why, then, did God create them? Mistake? Hugh Pyle recently has blamed immigrants for most of the AIDS cases in the USA. Sounds suspiciously like Lou Dobbs.
SWORD QUOTES LOU DOBBS: AUG 10
"Dobbs is right when he says 'this is a national crisis'."
Lou Dobbs has been endorsed by every Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi group in North America, and has never tried to distance himself from a single such endorsement. This SWORD quote was about public education, not immigration. But Shelton Smith will teeter at the edge of a cliff to distance himself from anything that smells of liberalism or moderate conservatism. He has no objection to Nazis.
WHY ARE WE HEARING THIS JUST NOW?
Mainstream civil rights groups like the ADL have Zionist tunnel vision. They are so appreciative of the Baptist-Jewish alliance that helps prop up Israel that they are scared to say anything. If Hugh Pyle and Shelton Smith were Catholic, they would be taken to the woodshed. But does Hugh Pyle really support Israel? From Aug 8 or 9, 2006:
"Israel pays dearly for rejecting its Messiah, King Jesus."
EMPEROR WORSHIP
I'm all in favor of ending the war by winning it. You know, the Hubert Humprey strategy: patriotism and civil rights. But if this war turns out bad, it's the President's baby, and he should have his nose rubbed in it. Hugh Pyle says:
"Liberal Democrats continue to fume and foam about the war surge, but after six months, the PRESENT CONGRESS HAS NO PLAN"
Oh no you don't.