ACCORDING TO this morning’s LA Times, The "Magical History Tour" bus may roll back into Huntington Beach's Fourth of July parade. ¶ Parade organizers had snubbed the 1967 Volkswagen bus, which honors the Orange County lawsuit that desegregated California schools, because it lacked "entertainment value," although the U.S. Postal Service has deemed the lawsuit worthy of a commemorative stamp. ¶ But after a flurry of media attention, organizers on Tuesday told filmmaker Sandra Robbie, who proposed the entry, that they wanted to steer her bus back into the Independence Day parade, billed as the largest in the western United States, with 250,000 people expected to watch. ¶ …Pat Stier, who chairs the board that oversees the parade, said organizers also wanted the bus to mesh with the 300 or so other entries. ¶ "I said, 'Can you make it more patriotic and put some music on it and make it more fun?' " ¶ … "She's got a great cause," Stier said. "We just have to make it a fun great cause."Yeah, can you make it more patriotic and ... more fun?
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How 'about they put bikinis on the Mendez family? Red, white and blue ones...the desegretation dancers they can call them...
surfboards, give them surfboards.
It's not somebody's "cause." It's our communities history!
That such history has to struggle for inclusion in this parade doesn't say much for HB.
I guy with red, white, and blue sparkin' out of his ass would be both entertaining and patriotic. For me, that is now the iconic image of the HB Indy Day Parade. "This is who we are."
Achieving equality is certainly noble, but celebrating a lawsuit? And doing it with a 60s type VW bus that is associated with the drug induced low-life hippies counter-culture is just un-American.
Isn't the VW bus from germany?
5:55, please never say anything that stupid again.
It's only stupid to those who lack the ability to understand, 8:23. Sorry to hear you fall into that category. Were you brain-damaged at birth?
5:55--
Do please think before you write.
By your logic, we should not celebrate Brown vs. Board of Ed. either. That is absurd.
Imagine not celebrating legal milestones--such as issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation or, say, the declaration of "independence" or the passage, more than ten years later, of the Constitution.
I don't know how old you are, 5:55 (I can guess), but those of us old enough to know understand that VW buses are symbolic of more than just hippies. To an extent, they symbolize the rebellious youth culture of the 60s. One aspect of that culture was embrace, not only of the anti-war movement, but also of the Civil Rights movement, which, contrary to public perception, was more a 60s than a 50s phenomenon.
Is this ignoramous really unaware that many instances of social progress--concerning our civil liberties, civil rights, voting rights, etc.--were the result of litigation?
One can only assume that 5:55 learns his history from Fox News. It sure ain't from history books.
Learn some facts before you open your big mouth, 5:55!
Dred Scott was a slave who sued to gain his freedom.
Remember?
Why the hell not celebrate that?
Who are these MORONS who write to your blog? Why don't they just listen to the radio, where total ignorance of history and reality is par for the course?
1:33 says "Dred Scott was a slave who sued to gain his freedom.
Remember?
Why the hell not celebrate that?
Who are these MORONS who write to your blog?"
Well, 1:33 let's see now. Dred Scott lost. Seems to me that a big war, not the Dred Scott case, is what should be celebrated. Seems to me we also know who the "MORONS" are and it's folks like 1:33. Probably has a bumper sticker on his VW: "War is not the Answer" or "Bushitler" or "Make love not war" or some such liberal drivel.
3:21
Now let's see if I understand this. People have written in to demonstrate amply that your position--that litigation is ipso facto unworthy of celebration--is aburd and that it reflects a profound ignorance of history.
You don't respond to this. No, you point out that "Dred Scott lost," as though that were a powerful retort. It is a retort to nothing anyone has said.
Are you saying that, since Scott lost his case, we have no reason to celebrate him? My God, sir, you really are a moron.
Why do you bother to write to this blog? Surely you know that it is written by and for educated people.
Please move on.
6:08,
Do not discriminate against the logically challenged. As educators you have to include everyone, and educate them.
Tashunkewitko thinks educators are the logically challenged - all have heads up ass!
3:21. Ever been in a war? Ever been shot at? Ever had to kill someone? If your answer is No I suggest you keep your mouth shut.
Yes, yes, and yes, 10:11. So now what? Do we meet in front of the flag pole at high noon? Go fuck youself!
The troll is being fed. Please don't feed the troll.
Cohen, you're sexist pig - I am not a "troll" I am a trollop!
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