tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post3406931563597272086..comments2023-09-30T09:41:52.224-07:00Comments on The Well Spoken Negro's Salon: Keep Giving Rustin His DueUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-19288129444932679292011-08-29T12:50:29.277-07:002011-08-29T12:50:29.277-07:00Anon 3: I chuckled when I read your single senten...Anon 3: I chuckled when I read your single sentence comment, dismissiveness fully in tact. There are many things that can be said of many people folks call heroes. Rustin's contributions to this country simply cannot be reduced down to his short time with the Communist Party. If I followed your example, then I could dismiss Thomas Jefferson as a slave holding racist, but I don't do that. I could dismiss MLK as an adulterer, but I don't do that. Might I suggest you consider whomever you admire, and read his/her biography or autobiography, and let me know if your heroes can be reduced to a singular characteristic, specifically a negative one, and feel that everything else that he/she had done should be dismissed out of hat.hscfreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15248588351369527519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-59409044211230039752011-08-28T05:03:39.701-07:002011-08-28T05:03:39.701-07:00He was a communist.He was a communist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-19774241487933050062011-08-25T08:45:51.248-07:002011-08-25T08:45:51.248-07:00Anon #2: Rustin was arrested for hooking up with ...Anon #2: Rustin was arrested for hooking up with a guy in the back seat of a car back in the 50s, something Strom Thurmond introduced into the Congressional Record as a way to discredit both Rustin and the March on Washington. I've never heard of a child molestation charge against him, and considering the tactics of the FBI at that point, if that were the case, we definitely would have heard about that. And Rustin definitely ruffled the feathers of all those religious black folks who led the CRM, and tried to use his orientation to diminish his influence on MLK.hscfreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15248588351369527519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-51281620754334663762011-08-25T07:30:15.071-07:002011-08-25T07:30:15.071-07:00Yes, Rustin's courage was astounding. Wasn'...Yes, Rustin's courage was astounding. Wasn't there something about child molestation, though? But I'm wondering if this was real, or fabricated by bigots (even black bigots)in an effort to smear him (?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-79207610313540276412011-08-25T06:54:49.282-07:002011-08-25T06:54:49.282-07:00As gay equality becomes more prevalent, hopefully ...As gay equality becomes more prevalent, hopefully all people can celebrate the man who made no apologies.<br /><br />I'm just sayin'...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com