Never, EVER, reach out to bigots! They NEVER change. Right? No? Maybe?

[HamdenRice]

Civil rights leaders never, ever would "reach out" to a Klan member, right? That's "history" right? So why should we have to reach out to Rick Warren and his constituency, right?










Q (Juan Williams): In 1937 Hugo Black was appointed to the Supreme Court. Were you aware of those things back then? <Williams is referring to Justice Hugo Black's membership in the Ku Klux Klan, which was hushed up when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1937. Black became one of the strongest supporters of civil liberties ever to sit on the Supreme Court and voted in favor of civil rights in Brown v. Board of Education and other civil rights cases.>

A (Justice Thurgood Marshall): I was. I remember Hugo Black as a senator. I remembered on one occasion there was the HarrisonBlackFletcher bill which was a bill to get federal funds for public education. The southerners so worded it that we knew that Negroes weren't going to get that money. So Charlie Houston and I said, let's go over and talk to Sen. Black and Walter White.

So Charlie and I went over there and talked to him and he said, you don't know how right you are. And he had his brother there, Hollis, who was his aide and he said, you know, we've got to get around this so I'll propose an amendment. Is that what you want? And we said, yessir. And he said you don't have to worry. And we said you know we've got one drafted here. So we showed it to him and he said, no, this won't do. The southerners won't buy this. Hollis you go draft one that the southerners will buy.

Now I remember that the man did that, why should we fight him…But Hugo's a good man. I don't know where he got because he was brought up in the Klan. You had to have a Klan sign in your window in Alabama. Any place in Alabama. He's from Alabama.