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Tuesday, June 18, 2002

I guess it pays to know who your friends are.
From Mary Orndorff of The Birmingham News:

[...] The Palestine Media Watch calls Hilliard one of a handful of congressmen with "the moral and political courage to stand up" to pro-Israel sentiment in Congress."

Hilliard and 20 others last month voted against a resolution supporting Israel and condemning the Palestinian suicide bombings. [...]

The article also quotes Earl's fraternity friends:

[...] "We want to make sure we have his voice representing our interests and the interests of the disadvantaged people in the 7th Congressional District and throughout the country," said Elvin Dowling, chief of staff for the general president of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Hilliard joined the 95-year-old fraternity while an undergraduate at Morehouse College. The e-mailed message to several thousand members is a "nationwide call to arms" and includes endorsements from the fraternity's general president, Harry E. Johnson Sr. of Houston, and former New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial. Their message calls Hilliard "a full-time civil rights activist" and a "foot-soldier" of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement.

You know, at one time, Birmingham was called "Bombingham" because of the numerous Ku Klux Klan dynamite bomb attacks on the black residents of this city. I guess if the Kluxers got on a busload of black people and blew it up, they would have been much more noble, eh, Earl?

posted by Terry at 9:20:00 AM

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