Skip to main content

Pete Seegar, who sang it like it was--one of the major voices raised against one of the biggest blunders this nation ever got into, the Vietnam Debacle.

 

https://www.google.com/search?...s_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

 

Pete Seeger2 - 6-16-07 Photo by Anthony Pepitone.jpg

I yam what I yam and that's all I yam--but it is enough!

Last edited by Contendah
Original Post

Replies sorted oldest to newest

Originally Posted by direstraits:

A woman, deaf and blind from childhood, unable to experience the horrors of the 20th century, dependent upon friends for his news may be excused much.  The rest of us, not so much!Helen

_____________________________

Keller died in 1968 at the age of 88.  By my reckoning, that means she spent 68 adult years living in the United States, extending through the invention of heavier-than-air-flight,  two world wars, the Great Depression, the rise of Soviet Russia, and the Vietnam Absurdity, all in the 20th Century.

 

One of her critics, who absurdly linked her socialist views to her disability (much like your cheap shot, above) learned how skilfully Ms. Keller was able to express her scorn.  (See bold blue highlights below),.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

 

<<<Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical socialist and a birth control supporter. In 1915 she and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920 she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller traveled to 40 some-odd countries with Sullivan, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Keller met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham BellCharlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. Keller and Twain were both considered radicals at the beginning of the 20th century, and as a consequence, their political views have been forgotten or glossed over in popular perception.[22]

Keller was a member of the Socialist Party and actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921. She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency.

 

Newspaper columnists who had praised her courage and intelligence before she expressed her socialist views now called attention to her disabilities. The editor of the Brooklyn Eagle wrote that her "mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her development." Keller responded to that editor, referring to having met him before he knew of her political views:

"At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him." 

Add Reply

Post

Untitled Document
×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×