"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:40:38 -0500, "Vito" said:

Carpet baggers often used ex slaves to elect local negros whom
they could control ... much like JFKs latter day civil rights leaders
did.

Not sure I follow you here. You're saying that the Northern firebrands got
the less militant Southern civil rights leaders thrown out and replaced by
the firebrands' puppets imported from the North? That one's a new one to
me,
but I wasn't there at the time.

After the war of yankee aggression rebels (most southern whites) were barred
from office. Northern "Carpetbaggers" rallied recently freed slaves to elect
locals they could control. These locals slapped big taxes on property then
when the rebs couldn't pay, sold it at bargain rates to the carpetbaggers.
The Souths answer was the KKK but 2 wrongs don't make right. That evolved
into the Jim Crow situation and Dixicrats found in the 1950s.

Similarly, JFK encouraged northern college students to go south and get
disenfranchised blacks to elect locals more attuned to his/LBJs adjenda.

Most of the firebrands (Malcom x, H.Rap Brown, et al) went to jail or died.
The peaceful (ie controllable) ones went to congress.