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messy said:
My dad was 18 in 1935 up the street at Fairfax High.
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That's cool. My mom was student body president for the girls at Los Angles High School. She went off to USC with her high school sweat heart who became a big time lawyer.
 
espola said:
John Wayne was a fictional persona created by Hollywood, usually portrayed by the actor Marion Morrison.
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Michael Luther King was a pig with mistresses and felt the need to change his name to "Martin" because he thought it made him sound intelligent.

Had black people valued education back when Big John brought it up, things might be different for them today.
 
Lion Eyes said:
He's old enough to know John Wayne is an American icon and U.S. Grant did more for African Americans than simply defeating Lee & the Confederacy...
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I dig your obsession with US Grant.
Fyi, I was totally anti the destruction of his statue. Did they give a reason?
John Wayne was clearly a douchebag. The OC has matured and it’s time to cast off that relic of an inappropriate honor.
 
Lion Eyes said:
He's old enough to know John Wayne is an American icon and U.S. Grant did more for African Americans than simply defeating Lee & the Confederacy...
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According to whitehouse.gov -- When he was elected, the American people hoped for an end to turmoil. Grant provided neither vigor nor reform. Looking to Congress for direction, he seemed bewildered. One visitor to the White House noted “a puzzled pathos, as of a man with a problem before him of which he does not understand the terms.”
 
espola said:
According to whitehouse.gov -- When he was elected, the American people hoped for an end to turmoil. Grant provided neither vigor nor reform. Looking to Congress for direction, he seemed bewildered. One visitor to the White House noted “a puzzled pathos, as of a man with a problem before him of which he does not understand the terms.”
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From History.com
He was responsible for dismantling the KKK during Reconstruction.
After the newly formed Ku Klux Klan began murdering and terrorizing black Americans in the late-1860s, President Grant mobilized the Justice Department and secured thousands of indictments against their leaders. In 1871, he also oversaw passage of the so-called “Ku Klux Klan Act,” which armed him with the power to declare martial law and suspend habeas corpus in areas deemed to be in a state of insurrection. The law got its first test later that year, when Grant sent troops into South Carolina and ran thousands of Klansmen out of the state. Thanks to his administration’s efforts, the hooded extremists were effectively cowed into submission over the next few years. They wouldn’t resurface in force until the 1910s.

From the Washington Post
...As much as any person not named Abraham Lincoln, Grant saved the Union. He went on to serve two terms as president and write some of the most celebrated memoirs in the history of American letters.
He pushed for passage of the 15th Amendment giving male African Americans the vote, sent federal troops to fight the Ku Klux Klan and reformed the government’s Indian policy.
German leader Otto von Bismarck said to Grant that it was a shame that the United States had to endure so terrible a war. Grant answered, “But it had to be done.”
Bismarck: “Yes, you had to save the Union.”
Grant: “Not only save the Union, but destroy slavery.”

Frederick Douglass eulogized Grant as “a man too broad for prejudice, too humane to despise the humblest, too great to be small at any point. In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an imperiled nation a savior.”

Bewildered indeed Magoo...
 
Lion Eyes said:
From History.com
He was responsible for dismantling the KKK during Reconstruction.
After the newly formed Ku Klux Klan began murdering and terrorizing black Americans in the late-1860s, President Grant mobilized the Justice Department and secured thousands of indictments against their leaders. In 1871, he also oversaw passage of the so-called “Ku Klux Klan Act,” which armed him with the power to declare martial law and suspend habeas corpus in areas deemed to be in a state of insurrection. The law got its first test later that year, when Grant sent troops into South Carolina and ran thousands of Klansmen out of the state. Thanks to his administration’s efforts, the hooded extremists were effectively cowed into submission over the next few years. They wouldn’t resurface in force until the 1910s.

From the Washington Post
...As much as any person not named Abraham Lincoln, Grant saved the Union. He went on to serve two terms as president and write some of the most celebrated memoirs in the history of American letters.
He pushed for passage of the 15th Amendment giving male African Americans the vote, sent federal troops to fight the Ku Klux Klan and reformed the government’s Indian policy.
German leader Otto von Bismarck said to Grant that it was a shame that the United States had to endure so terrible a war. Grant answered, “But it had to be done.”
Bismarck: “Yes, you had to save the Union.”
Grant: “Not only save the Union, but destroy slavery.”

Frederick Douglass eulogized Grant as “a man too broad for prejudice, too humane to despise the humblest, too great to be small at any point. In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an imperiled nation a savior.”

Bewildered indeed Magoo...
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It's a good thing that we don't have to worry about the KKK anymore.
 
espola said:
It's a good thing that we don't have to worry about the KKK anymore.
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You're sounding more and more like Joe Biden with every post Magoo...
I'm surprised you don't blame Lincoln for the KKK...after all if he hadn't emancipated them, there would be no KKK.
Lord knows Frederick Douglas was a dolt...right Magoo?
 
The Outlaw said:
Michael Luther King was a pig with mistresses and felt the need to change his name to "Martin" because he thought it made him sound intelligent.

Had black people valued education back when Big John brought it up, things might be different for them today.
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It was a smart name change, because it put him more in line with his father, Martin Luther King, Sr.
 
Lion Eyes said:
You're sounding more and more like Joe Biden with every post Magoo...
I'm surprised you don't blame Lincoln for the KKK...after all if he hadn't emancipated them, there would be no KKK.
Lord knows Frederick Douglas was a dolt...right Magoo?
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Rants are most effective when they have no discernible meaning. That's a good example.
 
messy said:
Well, Pilgrim, I hate to break it to ya', but no Californian born after 1980 knows who the redneck John Wayne was, nor gives a shit. And if they did, they'd want his name outta there.
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I have seen every JW movie from Stagecoach on. Some of them were real turkeys and could not have been made at all except JW was in them. Some of them were excellent, like Sands of Iwo Jima, The Shootist, and The Searchers. The best part of True Grit, to anyone who had seen JW's works, was the seemingly-intentional parody of the JW character.

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
 
espola said:
Rants are most effective when they have no discernible meaning. That's a good example.
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I didn't think you were ranting Magoo...but if anyone knows about meaningless rants, you'd be the winner.
Do you think Frederick Douglass was ranting when he eulogized Grant?
 
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