Melissa Harris-Perry Likens
Perry’s Use of Nat'l Guard to 1960s-Era Segregation
on Breitbart TV 27 Jul 2014
On her Saturday MSNBC
program, Melissa Harris-Perry railed against
those protesting the flow of unaccompanied illegal immigration
children across the southern U.S.
border.
She particularly took aim at Gov. Rick
Perry’s use of his state’s National Guard at the border attempting to prevent
that flow and drew a comparison to the use of the National Guard in the
September 1957 to block the Little Rock Nine from entering Central High in
Little Rock, AR by then-Gov. Orval Faubus (D-AR).
Partial transcript as follows:
If we looked at had history, we do indeed
see where there are moments when children have been the catalyst that moved Americans
to push beyond their own biases and borders -- both national and racial. In May
of 1963, the children's crusade organized
by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference brought more than 3,000 young
people to the city of Birmingham, AL in a show of civil
disobedience against segregation in the city.
Once Americans saw those images of
children standing courageously against injustice, the tide of national public
opinion took a pivotal turn in support of the civil rights
movement's cause. But we can't embrace that moment of America’s
moral fortitude without also owning the great moral failing to had it was
responding because the children at the border have also been confronted with
the hostility that is as old as the segregated South and just as American as
the grace and charity of those to who have extended a hand of help.
Once Americans saw those images of
children standing courageously against injustice, the tide of national public
opinion took a pivotal turn in support of the civil rights movement's cause.
But we can't embrace that moment of America’s moral fortitude without also
owning the great moral failing to had it was responding because the children at
the border have also been confronted with the hostility that is as old as the
segregated South and just as American as the grace and charity of those to who
have extended a hand of help.
And if we are to claim our history
protecting vulnerable children, we must also grapple with our history of
responding to them as a threat when their presence undermines an established
order. As much as Americans rallied to the cause of the children's crusade, it
was also agents of the American state that were willing to attack them with
armed officers, fire hoses, and police dogs when they challenge a deeply entrenched
way of life in the South.
Rick Perry was preceded in his call to
send armed troops to confront children by Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus, and he,
of course, called the National Guard to stop the Little Rock Nine from their
first day of school at Central High.
The presence of children on buses
integrating Boston
schools in 1974 didn't stop white crowds from confronting them with slurs and
threats of violence. Nor did it give pause to the adults who hurled objects and
insults at 6-year-old Ruby Bridges on the day she became the first
African-Americans child to desegregate an elementary school. And so when we
look to children seeking safety at our borders and see instead an invasion to
be defended against, a contagion to be contained or a drain on resources that
we just don’t want to share – that is a side of history on which we are
choosing to stand.
Melissa Harris-Perry
Melissa
V. Harris-Perry is the host for MSNBC, and a columnist
for The Nation.
Note: Harold E. Ford Jr. is a
political commentator at MSNBC, was an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International
Rescue Committee, the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and New America
Foundation.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
is the president of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview
with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for
population control by involving the United States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank)
was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank).
Ted Turner
is a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and was married to Jane Fonda.
Jane Fonda A.K.A Hanoi Jane
Jane Fonda A.K.A Hanoi Jane was
married to Ted Turner, and married to Tom Hayden.
Tom Hayden
was married to Jane Fonda, a co-founder for the Students for a Democratic Society, and is an editorial board
member for The Nation.
Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement
in the United States
that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization
developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s
before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.
SDS has been an important influence on
student organizing in the decades since its collapse. Participatory democracy,
direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its
organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current American
student activist groups. Though various organizations have been formed in
subsequent years as proposed national networks for left-wing student
organizing, none has approached the scale of SDS, and most have lasted a few
years at best.
Melissa
V. Harris-Perry is a columnist for The Nation, and
a host for MSNBC.
Christopher
Hayes is the editor at large for The Nation, a host
for MSNBC, and was a fellow at the New America Foundation.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America
Foundation, the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the Leadership Conference on
Civil and Human Rights.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Constance
J. Horner was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and a commissioner for the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights.
Lee H.
Hamilton is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and a co-chair for the Independent
Task Force on Immigration and America's Future.
Richard C.
Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and a regent at the University of California.
Ward
Connerly was a regent at the University of California, and is the founder
& president of the American Civil Rights
Institute.
Mary
Frances Berry is the education fund director for the Leadership
Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and a director at People for the American Way.
Alec Baldwin
is a director at People for the American Way, and
was a host for the Up Late With Alec Baldwin.
Up Late
With Alec Baldwin was a MSNBC program.
Melissa
V. Harris-Perry is the host for MSNBC, and a columnist
for The Nation.
Julian Bond
is a director at People for the American Way, and
was a co-founder for the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee.
Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is an advocacy group for the civil rights movement.
Charles
Sherrod was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, and is married to Shirley
Sherrod.
Shirley
Sherrod is married to Charles Sherrod,
and was the Georgia
director, Rural Development Program for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
"Part-time Racist"
Shirley Sherrod
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