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Sen. Fritz Hollings: SC Democrat led fight against 1960's lunch counter integration

various newspaper archives | 12/23/02 | myself

Posted on by GOPcapitalist

With recent controversy surrounding Trent Lott, the leftist media has been woefully negligent when it comes to Democrat senators who have committed far worse offenses. In part, conservatives have responded by pointing out the bigotted past of former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who recently used a racial slur on television. There's another Democrat senator out there with a similarly embarassing past, but also one who has recieved much less attention, even among conservatives: Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC). Like Byrd, Hollings has a recent history of racial slurs. Less known is his history as governor of South Carolina in the early 1960's, when he was a leading segregationist. To fill this gap here's a glimpse of Senator Hollings' segregationist past and history of racial slurs:

SEGREGATIONIST GOVERNOR: As Governor of South Carolina, Ernest F. Hollings personally led the fight against lunch counter integration in his state. The New York Times reported that Hollings "warned today that South Carolina would not permit 'explosive' manifestations in connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter services." The Times reported that Hollings called a news conference on the subject where he "challenged President Eisenhower's contention that minorities had the right to engage in certain types of demonstrations" against segregation. Hollings told reporters at the press conference that Eisenhower was "confused" and had done "great damage to peace and good order" by supporting the rights of minorities to protest segregation at the lunch counters. (SOURCE: "Warning by Hollings." New York Times, March 17, 1960.)

ANTI-INTIGRATION ORGANIZER: Governor Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina is listed as a leading participant at a July 23, 1961 conference of "leading segregationists" in Atlanta to organize a "segregationist bloc" voting lobby to resist pressures for integration. Hollings was one of four governors who attended, with seven more having been invited. The others were Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Ross Barnett of Mississippi, and John Patterson of Alabama. The strategies discussed at the meeting heavily involved using the White Citizens Council, a segregationist organization. (SOURCE: Sitton, Claude. "Segregation Bloc Seeks Vote Lobby." New York Times, Jul 24, 1961.)

RACIAL SLURS: Senator Ernest Hollings has a long history of using racial slurs. Following a poor showing in the 1983 Iowa Straw Poll, Hollings remarked "You had wetbacks from California that came in here for Cranston," a reference to Alan Cranston who finished second. Hollings also made derogatory references to an African delegation at a 1993 international conference, suggesting they were cannibals. He stated "Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." He once referred to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, who was Jewish, as "the senator from B'nai B'rith." The South Carolina Democrat also allegedly referred to blacks with the slur "darkies" in a 1986 interview and once called the Rainbow PUSH coalition the "blackbo coalition."



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To: GOPcapitalist

When will the major media start carrying this?



To: GOPcapitalist

This is a keeper. Thank you.



To: dfwgator

Maybe we should all contribute to buying an ad, a la Sean Penn, detailing the information to the public. And, I mean in the major media papers.



To: dfwgator

When will the major media start carrying this? Probably about the same time they stop beating up on Lott over the Thurmond speech and start reporting Robert Byrd's Klan membership and Jesse Jackson's "hymietown" comment. Or in other words, never.



To: mhking



Likewise, the media doesn't want their precious Democrats prosecuted for their infamous Tuskeegee Experiments on Black syphilis patients in Alabama, either...

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To: GOPcapitalist

Hollings may not seek re-election next time, and would be in trouble in any event.



To: Paul Atreides

Maybe we should all contribute to buying an ad, a la Sean Penn, detailing the information to the public This really wouldn't be a bad idea. We could run successive full page ads in a major paper detailing a specific Democrat racist every week with all their quotes etc. Racist Democrats to be featured could include Hollings, Robert Byrd for his KKK membership, and Dick Gephardt for his White Citizens Council connections. Maybe later we could take on some of the historical figures like FDR, who ordered Japanese Internment and appointed a notorious Klan leader (Hugo Black) to the supreme court.



To: Go Dub Go

If I read correctly, the most recent incident was in 1983. That's 20 years ago. That's 20 years ago. The "darkies" comment was in '86, and the cannibals thing was in '93 or '94.



To: GOPcapitalist

One thing about it, we would all die of old age before we would get to see the media do a news item on the dims.



To: GOPcapitalist

It's only racist if a Republican says it...



To: GOPcapitalist



U.S. Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-SC)

and Mrs. Hollings

share a few words



To: GOPcapitalist

Good point about the sainted FDR. He is quoted in Fleming's New Dealers' War, and corroborated by Paul Beschloss in the Conquerors as telling two aids, one Catholic and the other a Jew, Henry Morgenthau his Sec of Treasury, that "You must understand America is a Protestant nation and you Catholics and Jews are only here by sufferance." As this was said in response to Morgenthau's effort to get FDR to deal with the Holocaust it seems to be in the nature of a threat to let sleeping dogs lie or else... Not a quote to be found at the FDR Memorial in D.C., his home in Hyde Park, or mentioned at DNC functions. Wonder why?



To: GOPcapitalist

Thanks for the post. Lemme pile on the 'RATS with this on hillary's hypocrisy..... Hillary's own racial/ethnic slur !..... BOOK CHARGES: HILLARY CALLED AIDE JEW BA**ARD DRUDGE REPORT

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Questions remain, and the debate intensifies, as to whether she can win the crucial Jewish vote in New York as she wages a neck-and-neck battle with Congressman Rick Lazio, who has made the Jewish question a campaign issue.



Now, as the race comes down to the wire, a new book is set to explore the first lady s feelings about Jews and anti-Semitic sentiments held by certain Rodham family members.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060193921/drudgereport>Biographer Jerry Oppenheimer s new book STATE OF A UNION: INSIDE THE COMPLEX MARRIAGE OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON will not be released by HARPERCOLLINS until Tuesday, but the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal:



In one particularly shocking passage in the book, Oppenheimer quotes a campaign official who describes an angry attack by Hillary in which she screams at him, "You fu**ing Jew ba**ard!" My apologies for the language, even though I did ** it out. I had to show the blatant hypocrisy, in light of the recent Trent Lott debacle.



To: GOPcapitalist

Thanks this is a keeper and has been bookmarked.



Hollings and Byrd are the living Racists of yesteryear and today in the Rat Party still in power as Senators.



They with the Senior Gore, Fullbright and other white racists were DemonicRats who wore designer suits and practiced full blown racism as senators.



When President Eisenhower a republican tried to tear down the decades of demonicRat racism since the civil war, these racist Rats fought him on every level 24/7!



This has been ignored by the NY Slimes, Slime and Newsweak and of course the DC Compost as well as ABCNNBCBS.



It is past time to drag the living Rat racists and their dead racist buddies out into the light of reality. Fullbright the racist mentor of the Clintoon and the Senior Gore were evil and vile racists.



To: GOPcapitalist

Fritz isnt racist at all. The proof of this is that our SC blacks vote overwhelmingly for him every time he runs. What more evidence do we need.



To: GOPcapitalist

Mark.



To: mhking

Doesn't Hollings also have something to do with the Confederate Flag flying on the SC state capitol?



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