Cool Breeze

Make no mistake JFK captured the heart of black people. No other President was revered so much. Why? It seemed that he tried to do something about the conditions of black people in America when no one else cared. Some h**ed JFK more than MLK!

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, it's easy for some to dismiss his brief presidency, as conservative commentator Brit Hume did on "Fox News Sunday." Hume, a senior political analyst for FOX News Channel, said of Kennedy on Sunday, "despite the thinness of the record . . . he has been the subject of the most successful public relations campaign in political history. . . . it is a legend bordering, I think, on myth." But Kennedy's ties with b****s and Latinos were no myth during those tumultuous years when the civil rights movement was gaining steam and African Americans, particularly, were seeking allies in the White House. Black journalists, some of whom were in the trenches covering the movement of which they were necessarily a part, shared in that hope.

"Even though he would leave no new civil rights laws as his legacy," Simeon Booker, the retired longtime correspondent for Ebony and Jet magazines, wrote this year in his autobiography, "Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement," "JFK nevertheless captured the heart of black America, becoming the best-loved chief executive in history. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/essays/civil-rights-movement-major-events-and-le

Applauded for appointing Negroes to high offices, Kennedy went even further, breaking down many racial barriers in informal ways. He probably hosted more b****s at White House events than had ever entered the mansion in all previous administrations combined. His appointment of top black leaders including the NAACP's top lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, whom he named to the federal bench, for awhile had some b****s wondering if the new president was actually trying to stall the civil rights movement by a brain drain of its key resources. . . .

"These and other things so entwined with his personality enhanced JFK's standing in the black community, just as they established a new code of race relations for the administration. As many b****s saw it, 'Lincoln freed us, FDR gave us jobs, and JFK gave us p***e in ourselves.' "

Something similar happened with Latinos, according to Nadra Kareem Nittle's essay, "The Chicano Movement: Brown and Proud," published on the race relations page of About.com.

"Prior to the 1960s . . . Latinos lacked influence in the national political arena," she wrote. "That changed when the Mexican American Political Association worked to elect John F. Kennedy president in 1960, establishing Latinos as a significant v****g bloc.

"After Kennedy was sworn into office, he showed his gratitude toward the Latino community by not only appointing Hispanics to posts in his administration but also by considering the concerns of the Hispanic community. As a viable political entity, Latinos, particularly Mexican Americans, began demanding that reforms be made in labor, education and other sectors to meet their needs."

Consider these black journalists who went to work in the Kennedy administration:

Andrew Hatcher, a former editor of the San Francisco Sun-Reporter who had worked in the Adlai Stevenson p**********l campaigns of 1952 and 1956, was named associate White House press secretary, the first African American to hold the position. He pressed on "in a climate of hostile w****s," Ebony magazine wrote, after he issued a news release that misspelled the name of Tufts University.
Louis E. Martin, editor of the Chicago Defender from 1947 to 1959, became an adviser to Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter and was deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1960 to 1969. Martin "was able to wield considerable influence inconspicuously," the New York Times wrote in his obituary, as when he helped persuade Kennedy to place a telephone call to Coretta Scott King to express dismay over the jailing of her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during the 1960 p**********l campaign.
Carl T. Rowan, who would become the pre-eminent black columnist of subsequent decades, left the Minneapolis Tribune to become deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs. In his 1991 "Breaking Barriers: A Memoir," Rowan described how, with both men using blunt language, he persuaded Kennedy to soften proposed guidelines that would bar American reporters from traveling on U.S. helicopters to battle areas in Vietnam. The proposal arose after a journalist who accompanied U.S. advisers angered the administration by reporting growing American involvement in the war against the Viet Cong. Rowan was later appointed ambassador to Finland.

okie don

Kennedy was assassinated because:
1. He wanted away from TGE Rothschield Khazarian Mafia andctgeir Federal Reserve. Hiring someone to.print America's Fait currency and paying interest for doing so is Stupid! Look at America NOW!!!
2. He wanted to 'disband' the CIA.
They report to the Khazarian Rothschield Mafia
3. He wanted out of Viet Nam.

Bottom line :John Fitzgerald Kennedy wasn't playing their game of:
'All wars are Bankers wars' and they 'capped' him.
And Yes Bush Sr. Was in on it...

The last great 'Democratic' President IMHO (:

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

Somehow absent from CoolBreeze's hagiographic post on John F. Kennedy's wonderful rapport with black people was how the Kennedy forces managed the situation of Sammy Davis, Jr.’s attendance, with the rest of the Rat Pack, at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Inconvenient?

And since CoolBreeze saw fit to mention JFK’s personal call to Coretta Scott King after Martin Luther King’s arrest, he forgot to include brother Robert’s telephone call to the judge in the case, raising concerns over tampering. But Robert was an attorney & future AG, so how could he be expected to know something so elementary in justice?

And certainly no one could expect CoolBreeze or any other liberal to mention opponent p**********l candidate’s Richard Nixon’s behind the scenes maneuvers on King’s behalf. All liberals know that Nixon was a no good, rotten, etc. And oh yes, that Nixon had been the Eisenhower Administration’s point man for civil rights & desegregation and had done an awful lot for the effort.

And by the way CoolBreeze, what was the name of that political party that all those southern segregationists belonged to? You know, John Stennis, George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox,… The Dem…,the Democ…,the Democr…, oh, that’s right, the DEMOCRATIC Party. I had a momentary lapse there. Sorry.

Cool Breeze

Ok comrade. How about a link conforming this actually happened. If its fact its probably documented. Sorry but can't take your word for it.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

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The things I cited have been part of what I have read over the years & they are accepted history. The 1960 Mississippi delegation at the DNC took exception to Sammy's presence. There was some kind of settlement over it.

The other matters also are part of history. Nixon did serve as Ike's point man when southern segregationists in the Democratic Solid South resisted civil right efforts. RFK did call the judge, also history.

Sorry, I can't take your word either since you provided no links yourself. And please, don't refer to me as comrade. I am not your comrade in any sense of the word.

Cool Breeze

Here's a link although one isn't needed! http://www.theroot.com/blogs/journalisms/2013/11/why_black_americans_loved_president_john_f_kennedy.html Comrade!

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

And because you cite it, I choose not to believe it.

Cool Breeze

That's on you!

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

Since there's not much I can do to stop you from calling me Comrade despite my request, I'll just ask you which you prefer, Führer, Commissar, Don or Dog Breath (from your icon Snoopy). If you don't indicate a preference, I'll either select one or rotate them or maybe come up with another. Maybe I should eliminate Commissar though since you may regard it as a compliment. (You see, two can play this game.)

Cool Breeze

Feel Free Sir! You cannot offend me! If you don't believe me consult Wolf Schitte and American I***t! They are masters of adhominem attacks!

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

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I was taught to respect people & one way was not to address them other than as they desired. You evidently missed that lesson so I'll just consider the source. The respect you give others is a reflection of your own self-respect. You have none for anyone else.

Cool Breeze

When you and your associates actually practice what you preach. I will consider it. Lol

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

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Typical for a liberal. I don't hold you responsible for what your associates say, don't hold me responsible for what my associates say.

Cool Breeze

Hypocrite! Then cease using the all inclusive term liberals.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

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Liberal is what you are. I am a libertarian and you can include me in your use of the term. What's the matter, ashamed of being a liberal? Or do you prefer the current favored term progressive? Or what term do you prefer?