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No problem, it is a common

rmrd0000 — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 02:18:31 +0000

In reply to I thought it would be easy to

No problem, it is a common mistake.

Bernie Sanders had brief Civil Rights career that probably ended ended by 1963.He attended but was not very active in the March.

http://www.snopes.com/sanders-mlk-selma-march/

I thought it would be easy to

Lurker — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:48:18 +0000

In reply to Can you post a link to when

I thought it would be easy to find, but when I started looking it turned out that I was wrong. Either I misheard or I misinterpreted.

Sanders was very active in the Civil Rights movement, in CORE and SNCC and the March on Washington, to the point of getting arrested, and nearly thrown out of college, but it all took place up North. I apologize for my mistake.

Can you post a link to when

rmrd0000 — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:48:26 +0000

In reply to This is so sad. You're

Can you post a link to when Bernie Sanders went to the South in the Civil Rights era? I posted a link elsewhere on this blog to Hillary Clinton investigating segregation in the South. I would like to hear of Sanders in the South.

I have repeatedly posted of

rmrd0000 — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:42:36 +0000

In reply to You say the Clintons are

I have repeatedly posted of Hillary Clinton in Alabama working for Marian Wright Edelman. I'll post again here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-u...

A tribe in Papua New Guinea

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:01:27 +0000

In reply to I'm surprised this sort of

A tribe in Papua New Guinea has apologised for killing and eating four 19th century missionaries under the command of a doughty British clergyman.

The four Fijian missionaries were on a proselytising mission on the island of New Britain when they were massacred by Tolai tribesmen in 1878.

They were murdered on the orders of a local warrior chief, Taleli, and were then cooked and eaten.

The Fijians - a minister and three teachers - were under the leadership of the Reverend George Brown, an adventurous Wesleyan missionary who was born in Durham but spent most of his life spreading the word of God in the South Seas.

Thousands of villagers attended a reconciliation ceremony near Rabaul, the capital of East New Britain province, once notorious for the ferocity of its cannibals.

Their leaders apologised for their forefather's taste for human flesh to Fiji's high commissioner to Papua New Guinea.

"We at this juncture are deeply touched and wish you the greatest joy of forgiveness as we finally end this record disagreement," said Ratu Isoa Tikoca, the high commissioner.

Cannibalism was common in many parts of the South Pacific - Fiji was formerly known as the Cannibal Isles - and dozens of missionaries were killed by hostile islanders.

I'm surprised this sort of

Lurker — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:53:52 +0000

In reply to Not quite - in the tropics

I'm surprised this sort of racist drivel passes the Dagblog Terms of Service.

I should have remembered that Lincoln was a Republican, and that the Democrats stayed in power for a century in the South thanks to the Jim Crow laws. But not all Democrats were racist: there were Democrats among the Freedom Riders, Bernie Sanders, for example. I guess you never forgave him for that.

Even now, it's not so easy to find Democrats who aren't racist. Compare how many voted for Obama because they thought that being a neighbourhood organizer with no executive experience would be a good background for a President, with those who voted for him because of the colour of his skin.

Not quite - in the tropics

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:56:26 +0000

In reply to And that was such an

Not quite - in the tropics needs to be pastor-ized or goes bad.

And that was such an

ocean-kat — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:31:04 +0000

In reply to At least we didn't put them

And that was such an egregious mistake. I was once chatting with a couple of cannibals and heard this dialog.

I cooked up one of those missionaries last week and he tasted awful.

How did you cook him?

Put him in a pot and boiled him with some yams.

Ah, that's your problem. He was a fry-er.

At least we didn't put them

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:06:36 +0000

In reply to This is so sad. You're

At least we didn't put them in a pot and boil them, like they did to missionaries elsewhere...

This is so sad. You're

Lurker — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:01:58 +0000

In reply to Family

This is so sad. You're saying that Southerners, white and black, are rejecting Sanders because he's an outside agitator who didn't grow up there and doesn't understand that 'family' trumps political opinion. Yet Sanders, in his youth, went down South and put his body and his life on the line in order to help blacks get the vote. The civil-rights marchers were denounced at the time as "outside agitators" who didn't understand that Southerners were all family, and wouldn't welcome intruders. Some were murdered, many were beaten and jailed. And now, the very people who got the vote thanks to Sanders and his friends, are voting Clinton, because Sanders isn't "family". So sad.