 Lester Maddox, the former restaurant owner cum racist, died today in Atlanta, Georgia; he was 87. Maddox was a failure as governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971, serving one term. Constitutionally prohibited from succeeding himself (although he tried to get away with ignoring the state's Constitution), he thereafter served as the state's lieutenant governor to "Jimmy" Carter, the peanut farmer with the peanut-sized brain who succeeded Maddox and, subsequently in 1977, himself became known as one of America's biggest failures as the worst and most inept U.S. president up to that time. (Fellow party member bilious "blowjob" clinton, president from 1993 to 2000, is now universally acknowledged as the worst U.S. president of all time.)
However, it is as a symbol of segregationist defiance for which Maddox will be remembered. He was nationally known for his outspoken opposition to integration. Resisting the public accommodations section of the federal Civil Rights act by refusing to serve blacks, he chose to sell his restaurant rather than give in to integration. Pick handles, which he later sold as souvenirs, became his trademark after some of his restaurant customers armed themselves with the weapons to bar blacks from entering. He once said, "As well as a constitutional human right to associate with whomever you please, there should be a corresponding right to disassociate if you please." Thanks to the June 23, 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, racism is now not only legal throughout the United States, it is encouraged, but only if it is done cleverly.
So, in the end, even if wicked and wrong, Maddox, as a representative of the immorally racist South following the Confederate defeat in America's Civil War, was "right" all along.
The most interesting thing about the reporting of Maddox's death today, which has been omnipresent in the news, is something that the liberal press en masse has conveniently forgotten to mention, something that became synonymous with racism in the bigoted post-Civil War South and which continues throughout the country to this day, something which POINT -- The Way addressed in COUNTRY FAIR: Ready, Set, RACE:
Lester Maddox was a democrat!
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