"I just don't remember [segregation] as being that bad," says Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi.
By the way it wasn't that bad for Mr. Barbour coz he grew up White and wealthy in 1960s Mississippi not Black and of any income level.
Oh, and he wants to be President. Of the United States.
Asked about coming of age in Yazoo City, Miss., during the civil rights "revolution," in Bill Kristol's Weekly Standard Magazine, Governor Barbour, who was 16 when three civil rights workers were murdered in the state in the summer of 1964, an event that was fictionalized into the film Mississippi Burning, tells Andrew Ferguson, "I just don't remember it as being that bad." He goes on to talk of standing "at the periphery" when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in his hometown (but not really paying attention to what was said because he was too busy looking at girls) and to salute the Citizens Council for (supposedly) ensuring the peaceful integration of Yazoo City's schools -- something that was achieved 15 years after Brown v. Board of Education.
Schmenge.
The wanna be POTUS also lauds the Citizen's Councils for helping integrate the South.
Uh, no.
FYI the Citizen's Councils, also known as The White Citizen's Councils, were the Klan with education, networking skills and restraint. Think of them as BIA's.
This guy is insane in the membrane.
WFDS
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