Reply #25: You can make any rational argument against gradualism in health care reform you like

[HamdenRice]

and I'd be glad to consider it on its merits. What you should not do, however, is re-write history and denigrate Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston my obfuscating their strategy. No one said that they were segregationists.

But to characterize them as opponents of strategic gradualism is to destroy their legacy, which is wrong and frankly insulting to their memory.

What's next? Arguing that Martin Luther King's ideology caused him to take to the hills of Alabama to organize an armed insurgency?

Why the pervasive need to insult the memory of the civil rights movement on DU by re-writing its history?

If you want to make a case against gradualism in health care reform, then talk about health care reform. There is no need to insult the memory of civil rights leaders to score cheap rhetorical points.