John Kerry is sponsoring a Senate resolution honoring W.E.B. DuBois, a black intellectual who help found the NAACP. The resolution is co-sponsored by Sen. Ted(I need a drink) Kennedy & Sen. Levin.
Dubois (Due-Boyss) ,author of books about race relations, is a contentious choice for this honor. He renounced his U.S. citizenship, joined the Communist party & was thrown out of the NAACP twice. His little gems of wisdom include the following:
North Korea: "the North Koreans are fighting exactly the things for which Americans fought in 1776."
Stalin: a "great" and "courageous" man, "attacked and slandered as few men of power have been." He called the crackdown on religion behind the Iron Curtain "the greatest gift of the Russian Revolution to the modern world."
Nazi Germany: "a nation at work after a nightmare of unemployment; and the results of this work are shown not simply by private profits, but by houses for the poor; new roads; an end of strikes and labor troubles; widespread industrial and unemployment insurance; the guarding of public and private health; great celebrations, organizations for old and young, new songs, new ideals, a new state, a new race." No mention of the concentration camps.
Awards: The Soviet Union awarded W.E.B. Du Bois the Lenin Peace Prize. Maoist China staged a national holiday in his honor in 1959.
Communism: "the only way of human life" and predicted that the free market was "doomed to self-destruction."
Race relations: "Absolutely segregate the races and sections of the world," the author of The Souls of Black Folk boasted in 1933: "I fight Segregation with Segregation." It was these statements which caused the NAACP to expel him.
Why Kerry & his clan would seek to honor DuBois is a mystery. Especially after the drubbing the Democrats took in the '04 elections. You would think they would get smart & clean up the image of the Democrats as a bunch of radical libnuts. But no, they only exacerbate the problem. This is why the Democrats are being quickly marginalized on the national scene.
....from sea to shining sea