re: #68 Charles

Had to respond to Weigel’s post.

A weird post from Dave Weigel, defending Barbour: Haley Barbour and the Citizens Councils.

Barbour was speaking to a writer for the Weekly Standard, hardly the kind of person who would ask him to “atone for Jim Crow.” And in fact, Barbour wasn’t even asked about the Citizens’ Councils; he volunteered his defense of one of the most overtly racist organizations that has ever existed in the United States, all on his own.

Again, he was talking to the Weekly Standard, not The Nation.

They could have avoided being “told” they were on the wrong side of the civil rights movement by not being on the wrong side of the civil rights movement.

It is mysterious, though, that he or they would feel defensive. Republicans tell me all the time about how Jim Crow was all the Democrat’s fault, so why doesn’t Barbour want to step forward and spotlight one of his party’s greatest moments?

No sarc, but a bit of a pointed question, if I may.