Comments on: Memoir of a Community Organizer

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:00:25 +0000

C’mon Carl, a little jape now and then relieves the tension.
BTW, as I understand it blacks may have been MORE inclined to leave THEIR South due to a lack of work which was the result of the Yankee regime’s inimical economic policies during and after Reconstruction. In seeking to punish the brave, heroic, and stoic Confederate warriors the general gummint in Washington City caused the poor blacks to suffer even more. But, do you think they really cared about the black man’s plight?
I don’t.

By: Carl Eric Scott

Carl Eric Scott — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:42:28 +0000

Thanks for this, Pete.

Robert, c’mon…you know that’s not what Ms. Wilkerson meant.

By: Memoir of a Community Organizer | CATHOLIC FEAST

Memoir of a Community Organizer | CATHOLIC FEAST — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:13:01 +0000

[...] Leon Kass, that is, who worked for a month in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in 1964. Here’s what we learn: Some communities do need to be organized, although the key organization has to come from within. The situation of the African American in Mississippi really was in Source: Postmodern Conservative [...]

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:05:25 +0000

Apparently not all African Americans “left” the South?

By: Ramsey

Ramsey — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:01:40 +0000

I’ve never read anything like Kass’ memoir. If I didn’t know him, I would have a hard time believing it wasn’t exaggerated. Thanks for sharing the link, Peter. It explains a lot.