From an apparently-not-online column by Larry A. McClellan, in today's The Star:
Charles Lindbergh, in an article in the Reader's Digest in the 1930s, wrote that the ability of whites to fly was "one of the priceless possessions which permit the White race to live well in a pressing sea of Yellow, Black and Brown."
The Star article is actually about aviation history in Robbins, but bastard I am I decided to focus on the quote instead. Which is from an article titled "Aviation, Geography and Race," I found out from a helpful post at Stormfront.org. Thanks, kids!
Anyway, guess who the main terminal at Minneapolis St. Paul airport is named for? No, go on, guess.
But I'm sure Lucky Lindy disavowed his racist beliefs and all that good shit at some point.
Our civilization depends on peace among Western nations, and therefore on united strength, for Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection. We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.
He just sounds like an early warblogger in this particular article, is all.
I mean, Minnesotans would never go around naming stuff after an unrepentant. . . sorry, can't even finish typing that.
No reason to act like it only happens in Minnesota, after all. Isn't there a move to get something named after the late President Reagan in every state?
Wait, Reagan is dead, right?
And if not, why the fuck not?
I read this post yesterday and wanted so badly to comment, but all I could do was sit with my mouth agape. I'm still not over it. I tried to order my thoughts into a cogent response, but all I came up with is a mishmash of my notes for a seminar on racism in American cinema, and you've written it all better so.
Blah blah multicultural rainbow colored polyglot family on both sides trumping the Mayflower stock blah wtf blah honestly wft is the motivation behind that sort of proclamation blah.
Your posts get me worked up, better than espresso.
apropos of "why the fuck not":
i guess jodie foster's army (JFA) must have broken up or something.
see that sunday nyt mag thing about bush jr. actually being reagan jr.? with that scary photo-morph from one face to the other?
couldn't finish it. actually the whole sunday paper was a goddamn waste of trees.
my boss refuses to call national airport "reagan", which he has to fly in and out of frequently. (apparently driving in and out of there is a nightmare...strangely apt). showing his true liberal colors there...
Reagan won't die until you immerse him in running water, sever his head with a grave diggger's shovel, or drive a stake through his heart. Jeez, you do watch that Buffy show don't you?
r@d@r: This is apart from the point of your post (oooh alliteration) but JFA is actually touring. This frightens me for some reason. I wish I still had my "headshot" t-shirt.
At least your airport isn't named after GHW Bush.
Related point: It's going to be kind of hard not to name public buildings after unrepentant racists unless we really limit the field of historical figures we name them after.
Or we could just go back to naming airports after cities. I was fine with "Houston Intercontinental", myself.
You realize that comment made me look up the origin of the name O'Hare Field, right?
I know nothing of Butch (snicker), but a quick Google on Col. McCormick brought up In the Shadow of Citizen McCormick:
Which brings us nicely full circle.
Can you tell I'm avoiding that other thread, and the Trackback links to it?
That McCormick link is one ugly story. It's kind of hard to manage unsurprised and dumbfounded at the same time, but I think that's the best description I can give for my reaction.
Look on the bright side: it's probably only a decade or two until I'll be flying out of GalleryFurniture.com International Airport. There's money in them thar namin' rights!
Grade-A ignoring is what most of that thread deserves. Especially the trackback links, the opening lines of which tell you that they're mostly useful to help you know where not to go.
I think if you look into Lindy, you'll find that he got into right much trouble for finding that Hitler was a really cool guy. How soon we forget.
travelertrish, whom are you suggesting "easily forgot?"
The folks who named a terminal after him or Aaron and those here reminding folks of his history?
Reagan came bearing the gift of CASINO to my tribe, and for that - i gotta say thanks Ronnie!
plus there was those spittin image puppets of him. priceless.
Shit, the whole fucking airport in San Diego is named after that racist bastard. Anyone looking for a cause might want to take this one up...
hey. Dunno where in the us u are- im from uk.
Just to say promise me you'll do what i do and light a joint/ take a shot of whiskey when that dodery old fascist reagan FINALLY dies.
Personally i thinkhe's gotta go thru a whole loada Karma fucking him in the ass first.