History
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: History
Our society began to percolate on foreign shores.
We chafed at having our personal liberties circumscribed by others.
- Written by: Tom Hedges
- Category: History
Cambodia and Viet Nam in 1950. American service members in the countries initially to help the French, who eventually lost their war in 1954. All of the military personnel were told not to wear any type of military uniform. And if they need an emergency plan – “Make it to the Saigon River. If we can’t get to you we don’t know you.” Over ten thousand military personnel were sent to Cambodia from 1950 through 1964. All involved with the liberation of what was then South Viet Nam.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: History
Previous mention was made in this space about the political pole-shift between the Democratic and Republican Parties. Abraham Lincoln was the first to be elected president under the aegis of the Grand Old (Republican) Party. The rebellious Southern Confederates, in essence, were former Democrats. It was only natural for those who previously were human chattel to glom onto the liberating Republicans. This grateful dedication would prove to be to their detriment. The Black Laws and the Ku Klux Klan all but eliminated African American participation in the Southern voting process. The great northward emigration of African Americans from the Southern States took along with it the imprimatur of Lincoln’s Republican Party of salvation.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: History
Linguistic subterfuge is in vogue. In these newly dis-United States, we have evolved. No longer, in the well of the all-white-male Senate do they rail against the need of lynch-law protection for Nigras. Those laws never were enacted – despite the fact that the first two decades of the last century were rife with the unlawful seizing, public torture and execution of African Americans in the South. This writer grew up in the North and South of that Apartheid America. Language was plain and outspoken, be it political or otherwise. Race was not a problem – it was controlled.
