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Article: Jerry Falwell's racist past
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- Chicago Defender
- Article date:
- May 24, 2007
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When people die, even the racist ones, there is an inexplicable rush to trumpet the good in that person, even where none exists from a public policy perspective. The most recent example is Jerry Falwell, one of the godfathers of the religious right.
Like many Southern White ministers, Falwell didn't sit on the sidelines at the outset of the modern civil rights movement, he joined the opposition.
"Decades before the forces that now make up the Christian right declared their culture war, Falwell was a rabid segregationist who rallied against the civil rights movement from the pulpit of the abandoned backwater bottling plant he converted into Thomas Road Baptist Church," Max Blumenthal writes ...