The LuLac Edition #5, 156, August 21st, 2024

 

MAYBE I’M AMAZED

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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION MUSINGS

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..but not really that the Democratic bench is way deep as far as electoral talent goes. It is almost an embarrassment of riches with people like Governor Andy Bishar, Senator Rafael Warnock , our Governor Josh and Alexandra Ocacio Cortez taking the stage and showing the stuff they had. 

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that there was so much enthusiasm from the crowd the proceedings lasted longer than necessary. But the Dems are fired up and ready to work.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……but not really that the ovations given to Jesse Jackson and the late Shirley Chisom were warranted. That action was a reminder of the heritage of the Democratic party with minorities.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……but not really that America saw the love and support of a real loving family.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that not many people know of the recognition of the black Mississippi delegation for delegates not being seated in 1964 is an important part of history. You might have heard the name of Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer was a former sharecropper and a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a racially integrated group that challenged the seating of an all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1964 DNC.

Her televised testimony to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, mesmerized the nation and shone light on the violence inflicted on Hamer and others as they worked to secure rights that were supposed to be guaranteed by the Constitution. In late August 1964, 68 members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party — made up of maids, ministers, farmers, painters, mechanics, and schoolteachers — took on President Lyndon B. Johnson and the entire Democratic Party. They demanded the segregationist Mississippi delegates to the Democratic National Convention not be seated and that, instead, they be seated as the only truly delegates.

The convention was a seminal moment for the Southern FreedoMovement, clarifying the limits of ruling-class acceptance of the social and economic vision of the Black Liberation Movement. The struggle at the convention in 1964 shaped the contours of the approaches on how to challenge, gain and exercise power that would rock the country in the late ‘60s and 70’s including at the 1968 Democratic convention.

Revisiting how this movement of poor and working people from Mississippi took on the elite clique that ran the country, to transform their own futures, holds numerous lessons for movements of poor and working people looking to do the same today.  (PBS News Hour)

MAYBE I’M AMAZED….that even Fox News carried the convention but not without the usual suspects taking potshots at the Democratic speakers. Make no mistake, the changing of the ticket has the right ring grasping for straws.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that Tim Walz’ wife Gwen is constantly having “Holy carp” moments as she watches as events unfold right before her eyes. The summer started off with their family sailing on the calm seas but now the family from Minnesota is cast into history. 

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……..that  the food staple used by the Nebraska born Walz family was Runza. A runza (also called a bierock, krautburger, or kraut pirok) is a yeast dough bread pocket with a filling consisting of ground beef, cabbage or sauerkraut, onions, and seasonings.Runzas can be baked into various shapes such as a half-moon, a rectangle, a round (bun), a square, or a triangle. The runzas sold by the Runza restaurant chain are rectangular while many of the bierocks sold in Kansas are round buns.The runza is a regional cuisine of Nebraska, with some commentators calling it "as Nebraskan as Cornhusker football."  It is served by the Nebraska Society of Washington, D.C.,and the Nebraska Society of New York at their Taste of Nebraska events and was chosen to represent the state at Flavored Nation, an event serving iconic dishes from all fifty states. Here’s a photo of the one Mrs. LuLac made the other day.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……that Delaware Senator and long time Biden friend Chris Coons was once a Reagan supporter.