Jeppie Barbour, Haley's Brother, Bemoaned Blacks 'Not Listenin' To White People Like They Used To'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/jeppie-brother-haley-barbour-brother_n_799441.html

Flashback: Citizens Councils Touted 'Racial Integrity,' 'Christian Love And Segregation'

Here is a Council newspaper from 1956, based in Jackson, Mississippi (which is roughly 40 miles from Barbour's hometown of Yazoo City).

The paper includes such headlines as:

"Christian Love And Segregation";

"Council Movement Spreads As Nation Reacts to Danger";

"Negroes Taking Over"; "

Baptists Rap Mixing" (note: In 1950's American English, "rap" in this context meant to harshly criticize, similar to "blast" in a headline now);

"Rape In Germany," warning of alleged rapes of German women by African-American soldiers;

"Lady Veteran Raps Hospital Mixology"; and "Enemy Made Large Gains In 1955."

Haley Barbour's Account Of Civil Rights Era In Mississippi Assailed By NAACP, Historians
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/haley-barbour-civil-rights_n_799365.html

Cut it out! It's people who cry "racism" keeping racism alive. So Barbour doesn't remember it being that bad. That's HIS perspective based on his experiences. Does that make him a racist? No. The civil war is long over. It was what it was, and you can't change what it was. My family didn't own slaves, and I've never owned a slave, therefore I feel NO compulsion to issue apologies to a black population who have never been slaves either. It's really past time for everyone to move beyond the whole racism farce and accept each person on his or her own merits instead of obsessing about skin color, sexuality, or other characteristics that really aren't relevant. Things may not be perfect, but they have improved and continue to do so. Liberals need to stop throwing the race card (that's seriously getting silly), and conservatives need to stop being uptight.

KKK, White Citizen's Council. Tomato, TomAtoe, Potato, PotAtoe, it was the same thing. My family was from the Delta area of Mississippi (not too far from Yazoo City) also and remembers it was really really bad for Blacks. Mississippi was probably the most violently racist and oppressive of the southern states. And they adamantly adhered to Jim Crow and oppression of Blacks. I guess it all matters what end of the rope you're on.

This story sheds light on why they are still so many disparities of justices based on race in ole' Miss.

The White Citizens' Council (WCC)—subsequently known as the Citizens' Councils of America after 1956,^[1][2] which is how the group referred to itself,^[3]—was an American white supremacist organization formed in 1954. With about 60,000 members,^[2] mostly in the South, the group was well known for its opposition to racial integration. Its issues involved the protection of "European-American heritage" from those of other ethnicities.^[4]

The first known chapter of the WCC was founded by fourteen people in the Delta town of Indianola, Mississippi on July 11, 1954. The prime instigator was Robert "Tut" Patterson, a plantation manager and the former captain of the Mississippi State University football team. Additional chapters soon appeared in other communities.

.... from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Citizens%27_Council

Heck, instead of wondering whther he is a racist we could ask him about why his state lags the rest of the nation and large portions of the civilized world in education, income, access to decent healthcare, economic opportunities, dropout rates, etc...he would bring MS to the rest of the country and then we can all be the low cost labor supplier to the rest of the world like his state does now

"Barbour walks back comments on civil rights era".....

(MSNBC's intended meaning)... Start hating him, America !!!... Hurry, we're planting the early seed for you to start hating him, now !!!.... Goodness, Mr Barbour could NEVER be qualified to be president because he's walking back his comment... and heaven knows ANYONE who walks back his/her comments IS DEFINITELY NOT presidential material....

THANK GOODNESS WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO NEVER WALKS BACK ANYTHING !

America is sickened by your constant double-standards, deceit and viscious hatred, MSNBC !

What the heck, here is the whole article:

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The White Citizens' Council (WCC)—subsequently known as the Citizens' Councils of America after 1956,^[1][2] which is how the group referred to itself,^[3]—was an American white supremacist organization formed in 1954. With about 60,000 members,^[2] mostly in the South, the group was well known for its opposition to racial integration. Its issues involved the protection of "European-American heritage" from those of other ethnicities.^[4]

By the 1970s, the influence of the WCC had waned considerably. The successor organization to the White Citizens' Council is the Council of Conservative Citizens,^[2] founded in 1988.

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• 1 Formation and early years of the movement
• 2 Influence of the councils
• 3 Resistance to desegregation
• 4 Decline of the movement
• 5 References
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• 6 See also
• 7 External links

[edit] Formation and early years of the movement

The first known chapter of the WCC was founded by fourteen people in the Delta town of Indianola, Mississippi on July 11, 1954. The prime instigator was Robert "Tut" Patterson, a plantation manager and the former captain of the Mississippi State University football team. Additional chapters soon appeared in other communities.

In Louisiana, leaders of the original Citizen's Council included State Senator and gubernatorial candidate William Rainach, future U.S. Representative Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., publisher Ned Touchstone, and Judge Leander Perez, considered the political boss of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes south of New Orleans.

The formation of the WCC was partly a response to the assertive activities of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), a grassroots civil organization organized by T. R. M. Howard of the all-black town Mound Bayou, Mississippi in 1951. Mound Bayou was only forty miles from Indianola, Mississippi. Although as an adult Patterson was opposed to such groups, in boyhood in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Patterson was a friend of Aaron Henry, an official in the RCNL and the future head of the Mississippi NAACP. ^[5]

Within a few months, the WCC had attracted members and new chapters developed beyond Mississippi into the rest of the Deep South. It often had the support of the leading citizens of many communities, including business, civic and sometimes religious leaders. Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, the WCC met openly and was seen by many as being "reputable"; in most communities there was little or no stigma associated with being a member of the WCC. Also unlike the Klan, its tactics did not often involve direct violence or terrorism, but rather economic reprisal.

[edit] Influence of the councils

African Americans who were seen as being too supportive of desegregation, voting rights, or other perceived threats to whites' supremacy found themselves and their family members unemployed in many instances; whites who supported civil rights for African Americans were not immune from finding this happening to them as well. Members of the Citizens' Council were sometimes Klansmen, and the more influential the Citizens' Council member, the more influence he had with the Klan. In fact, the WCC was even referred to during the civil rights era as "an uptown Klan," "a white collar Klan," "a button-down Klan," and "a country club Klan." The rationale for these nicknames was that it appeared that sheets and hoods had been discarded and replaced by suits and ties. Much like the Klan, WCC members held documented white supremacist views and involved themselves in racist activities. They more often held leadership in civic and political organizations, however, which enabled them to legitimize discriminatory practices aimed at non-whites.

[edit] Resistance to desegregation

The movement grew as activism and Federal enforcement of racial desegregation became more intense, probably peaking in the early 1960s. Many small Southern towns put up signs at city limits that proclaimed "The White Citizens' Council of (city name) Welcomes You".

As school desegregation increased, in some communities "council schools," sponsored by the WCC, were set up for white children. Derisively referred to by some as "segregation academies," some exist even today, although they have generally assumed other sponsorship and most have been forced to integrate, at least in theory, in order to maintain the tax-exempt status afforded to non-profit private schools, which is granted only to those that maintain racial and ethnic nondiscrimination.

[edit] Decline of the movement

By the 1970s, as white Southerners began to accept desegregation as a permanent aspect of life, the influence of the WCCs began to wane. The attitude of most white Southerners changed as well. Also, the growing economic and political power of African Americans left few white business owners willing to be openly associated with a racist organization. A few such groups still exist, their names changed to something similar to Conservative Citizens' Council, or member chapters of a kind of successor organization, the Council of Conservative Citizens. In recent years, Republican politicians U.S. Senator Trent Lott and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, among other conservative leaders, received some negative publicity for addressing one such group.

Lott has addressed the Conservative Citizens Council at least five times.^[2] According to his uncle, former state Senator Arnie Watson, "Trent is an honorary member" of what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls "the incarnation of the infamous White Citizens Councils," the white supremacist groups that attempted to resist desegregation during the 1950s and 1960s.^[6]

Old Haley fu*ked up he'll be reminded of that misstatement during the primaries you betcha.

Another Republican re-writing history! Is it that Republicans don't know history or are just lying to get votes?

Sounds like InTheMiddle (a Black man) doesn't think is was that bad ..either.  Or maybe defending Barbour's stupid comments is not that bad.  Speaking of indefenseable, Gov. Barbour's meets the criteria.

I don't think Barbour is racist. I think Barbour is a product of his upbringing and environment which allows him to be easily and mistakenly cast as such. What he is, is a political animal that knows how to get things done through the still existent good 'ol Boy network of American governance.

After Katrina, instead of whining and wringing his hands like the local leaders in La. he got on the phone and started calling in favors from his nationally connected cohorts to make things happen.

So in the spirit of perpetual election cycles and the money generated from all things controversial in said election cycles, let the fun begin.

Barbour is a dark horse presidential nominee if only because he speaks with a southern drawl that makes him sound stupid or racist no matter what comes out of his mouth. Grand fodder for the muckrakers. Truth is he is a cagey political operative and a force to be reckoned with and the media are going to make as much hay as they can off presenting him as a buffoon.

He is no Sarah Palin folks, Fall for this ploy at your own peril.

Mr. Barbour has the same problem that a lot of others do. He just doesn't get it. The rampant racist activities that once existed in parts of the country have also skewed the thinking of many from those regions. If there were no Klan meetings or lynchings in an area, the locals think that means racism didn't exist.

Barbour may not be the openly hateful racist of yesterday, but he's still a product of that environment. Yes, he and others cleaned up their acts and stopped openly practicing racist behavior, but the underlying beliefs and views of many, really hasn't changed. If you listen to any of these guys long enough, it manages to show through. What it boils down to is abiding by the laws prohibiting racist acts, but still maintaining racist beliefs. You can change people's behaviors with laws, but changing their minds isn't so easy.

This is a guy who has visions of becoming President. This was not just a case of saying something stupid. It's a case of having the wrong character to be the leader of the country. His character may still work in Mississippi, where he is unfortunately representative of a lot of people there, but it's not what our country is about. Simply abiding by laws against racism, doesn't make you non-racist. If you can't understand that, you don't get it either.

Look in the mirror first.  We all have different perspectives and different realities of memory.  I know white racist and black racist, there's no difference.  I believe that Mr. Barbour is a product of his environment.  The question we all must answer is "What does it mean to be American"...  If someone attacks this country we are all one.

I think Barbour's perspective is valid due to his background, which does not mean he's a racist.

That said, as a public *servant* his job is to understand his consituents view - not just his own.

He's guilty of not empathizing with other's perspective. That and the fact that his age is telling on him. We don't need an antiquated mindset to lead a country of not only diverse cultures, but perspectives.

Actually I think it's Ku Klux Klan.

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett is an excellent novel dealing with racial relations in Mississippi 1962-65. Ms. Stockett grew up in Jackson, Mississippi & used it as background for the complex interpersonal relationships among white women & "the help" - as everyone called their household maids.

I don't know the author but highly recommend it to open minds (regardless of race, gender or age) about the history of our nation at that time.

OMG! Do you really think a young boy would remember what it was like back then. Why is it that when someone tells the truth of what he felt or knew about a period of time, he has to change it to fit today's "political correctness". What a bunch of crap. I for one , am tired of you all!! We just have to think just like you want us to or else...well, Pfffffftttt on you.

I can't say Haley Barbour is a racist. He was talking about something from his youth, ie., his perspective, his remembrance of events in his town during that period. He stated the Citizen Council in his hometown would have run the KKK out of town. That actually sounds non-racist to me. It might have been naive on his part, perhaps he should know better now, but I don't see the racism.

Sometimes we slip and say what we actually think instead of what we want others to think of us

I think he was right the first time...miscegenist crybabies-deal with it.

Mr Barbour mis-spoke about an era in his past that I am sure he is not proud of and certainly his action since in service to the people of Mississippi have been more then above board.

Politicians often speak without thinking and then walk back

For example, President Obama's assertion that the police officers in Boston acted stupidly (without having any facts) and then his walk back to both sides could have acted differently to come to a different outcome and ultimately the beer summit

Clearly, Barbour employs no black advisors or has any black friends. I can't think of any educated black person--with parents and grandparents--who would have encouraged him to promote the White Citizens' Council or laud Mississippi at any time during the civil rights era. The fact that he dropped "White" from Citizens' Council suggests a deliberate effort to sugarcoat the truth.

For those of you too young for a memory of that time, Mississippi was the scariest state in the nation for black people and a deadly challenge for civil rights workers who went there to register blacks to vote. Mississippi law enforcement would lynch you, castrate the men, then throw the body parts in the river. It was hard for whites who weren't racist to act like they weren't because they'd be targeted for violence and retribution as well. You cluck your tonque over radical jihadists beheading Americans in the mideast? Terrorism was just as bad in the south, most notably in Mississippi.

When I was a kid, my family would drive from Chicago to the south to visit relatives every summer. Like everyone else, we packed our own food because we weren't allowed in the restaurants or public facilities. My father always topped off right before he got to the MS state line so he would not have to stop in that state. To this day, I have never visited Mississippi. I know it has changed, but the memories are still too fresh to make the state inviting to me.

Haley would have done better just apologizing for the experience that many African Americans suffered during that time and assured people that he did not support the views of the past. No one can argue with that.

YazooCity did keep the Klan out. But not because they were on any moral high ground. They didn't want the black folks who did all the work to be run off. When I lived there, it was said out loud more than once.

This is all about nothing except when it's by a white....if a black speaks carelessly about race it's OK because we live in a politically correct society which is ridiculous

Love how the left loves to categorize this as just another example of how the Republican Party is filled with nothing but racists. It is amazing that these are the same people that made Senator Byrd, a former active member of the KKK, the longest serving member of the Senate. Never heard a word against him from any of you left wingers even though he, like many other democrats, filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act; yes it was democrates not republicans.

I still remain amazed at how the Democrats have been able to re-write history, and how easily their members have been brainwashed into beliving that it is they who are the defenders of the minorities. It was 18 Democratic Senators and only 1 Repuclican (ONLY ONE) that tried to filibuster this legisaltion and yet somehow the democratic party has rewritten history to have everyone believe they are the party of equality and unity.