[From "Robert Boyd Patterson, R.I.P."]
On September 21st, Bob Patterson was reunited with his God, his wife of 68 years, and his beloved ancestors when he died peacefully in his sleep at age 95. The causes of State’s Rights, Rule of Law and Race Realism lost a great champion and leader with his passing.
In 1954, Bob “Tut” Patterson founded the Citizens’ Councils of America in response to the arbitrary and unconstitutional U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Bob Patterson recognized what a disaster this decision would be for public schools, particularly those in the South, even if the supposedly “learned” justices of the Supreme Court did not.
Bob Patterson was a born leader who was destined to do great things: His founding of the Citizens’ Council was merely one of many.
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Bob Patterson is survived by a daughter, two sons and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren: All doubtless gave him great happiness and pleasure, since it was for them that he fought so many pitched battles.
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Because the White Citizens' Councils were such good institutions, as could told those who got boycotted, ruined and exiled after they were denied jobs, housing and loans.
The White Citizens Councils:Respectable Means for Unrespectable Ends
Look,” said Nick Roberts of the Yazoo City Citizens Council, explaining why 51 of 53 Negroes who had signed an integration petition withdrew their names, “if a man works for you, and you believe in something, and that man is working against it and undermining it, why you don’t want him working for youof course you don’t.”
In Yazoo City, in August 1955, the Council members fired signers of the integration petition, or prevailed upon other white employers to get them fired. But the WCC continues to deny that it uses economic force: all the Council did in Yazoo City was to provide information (a full-page ad in the local weekly listing the “offenders”); spontaneous public feeling did the rest.
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In another Mississippi city, two doctors were told that their white patients would be denied the use of a new hospital unless they agreed not to bring Negro patients even into the segregated wing.
They were to the Klan what was Batasuna to the ETA: the guys who stay in legality while the others are doing the unlawful acts.
Handbill from Central Alabama Citizens Council rally during the Montgomery bbus boycott
@Declaration of Segregation
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to abolish the Negro race, proper methods should be used. Among these are guns, bows and arrows, sling shots and knives.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all whites are created equal with certain rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of dead niggers.
Patterson's legacy is only one of hatred and blood , not of honour and glory.
Aside note, it was Aaron Henry, future NAACP leader, who used to nuckname him "Tut" when they were playing together as children.
On September 21st, Bob Patterson was reunited with his God, his wife of 68 years, and his beloved ancestors when he died peacefully in his sleep at age 95.
OK.
The causes of State’s Rights, Rule of Law and Race Realism lost a great champion and leader with his passing.
Uh oh.
@ SomeApeCan someone from Mississippi please spit on his grave from me? Thanks.
I have a bottle of Jack Daniel's I'd like to pour over his grave,
Yeah, equal treatment is SOOO unconstitutional! Oh, wait...
How can it be arbitrary to say that all kids have the right to proper education, regardless of skin-tone? What's arbitrary is to say that only the lighter-skinned kids have a right to education.
Why was the decision so disastrous in the South? Because schools in the North already did this and would hardly notice?
You sound like Mr Ollivander, talking about Lord Voldemort's wand; "He did great thing, terrible yes, but great".
How many dark-skinned citizens were on the Citizens' Councils? None? So they were just Some Citizens' Councils, or Selected Citizens' Councils? Perhaps Stupid Citizens' Councils...
Don't like black people? Too bad your ancestors brought so many to the US, then. They should have continued to make their own "quadroon" servants, like they supposedly did on the Islands...
The causes of State’s Rights
Like I've said, when someone says that, you can pretty sure they're talking about the "right" to discriminate. It used to be just racism, but then people started using that to argue against the Obergefell decision.
Brown v. Board of Ed. wasn't unconstitutional, because "separate but equal" isn't equal.
A plane ticket to the US.
Travelling to Topeka, Kansas, or Indianola, Mississippi.
Going to a Mexican restaurant in either locale, and having a huge meal there.
Doing the tourist thing in either locale; also letting nature take it's post-prandial course prior to visiting a certain grave.
Choices, choices...!
On September 21st, Bob Patterson was reunited with his God.... image image image image image image ....Ouchies! [/font]
Great things? In the end, almost everything he did came to nothing, which he thankfully lived to see. Outside of back-end-of-the-Internet websites like this one nobody remembers him and it took even you two months to mention his death. No, remember to ward against the harm his point of view can cause, but let him die forgotten.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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