BCT Editorial – 6/29/05

This page was last updated on June 29, 2005.

Big tent?; Editorial; Beaver County Times; June 29, 2005.

The Times doesn’t get originality points for this editorial. It’s a slimmed down version of a June 21^st Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial entitled “Non-apologists.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject editorial.

“Some Republican senators apparently haven’t gotten the message that the GOP is trying to attract more black Americans to its ranks.”

[RWC] Does the Times believe you need to apologize for something you didn’t do to attract black voters?

“Since June 13, the Senate has had before it a resolution apologizing for that chamber not standing up to the lynchings that took place between 1882 and 1968.

“In those years, nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in the first half of the 20th century, only to be filibustered by Southern senators who were Democrats. Between 1882 and 1968, an estimated 4,743 people, mainly blacks in the South, were lynched.

“As of Friday, eight Republican senators - Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Thad Cochran and Trent Lott of Mississippi, John Cornyn of Texas, Michael Enzi and Craig Thomas of Wyoming, Judd Gregg and John Sununu of New Hampshire - had not signed it.”

[RWC] The Times published an editorial on this topic on June 16^th (“Long overdue”). Since that editorial, the author apparently learned the obstructionists were Democrats and they used the beloved filibuster in their efforts.

For the rest of my critique, see the points I made in my critique of the PG’s “Non-apologists.”