M2RB: Elvis Presley
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?
We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?
We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds
In The Summer Of 1963, Governor Romney Participated In
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Freedom Marches” In Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
In 1963, George Romney
gave the Keynote Address at the conference that sparked the Martin Luther King
“Freedom Marches” in Detroit.
“The establishment of these human
relations groups came in the wake of several major events (besides the
embarrassing racist practices of such suburbs as Dearborn), which took place in
1963 and helped galvanize interracial support and cooperation for integrated
housing. The first event was the Metropolitan Conference on Open Occupancy held
in Detroit in January 1963. The second event was the Martin Luther King
‘Freedom’ March in June of the same year, the spinoffs of which were several
Detroit NAACP-sponsored interracial marches into Detroit suburbs to dramatize
the need for black housing. … Governor George Romney gave the keynote
speech at this conference, in which he pledged to use the power of the state to
achieve housing equality in Michigan.”
- Joe T. Darden, Detroit, Race and Uneven Development, 1987, p. 132
In their 1967 book, Stephen Hess and David Broder wrote that
George Romney “Marched With Martin Luther
King Through The Exclusive Grosse Point Suburb Of Detroit”:
“He
has marched with Martin Luther King through the exclusive Grosse Pointe suburb
of Detroit and he is on record in support of full-coverage Federal open-housing
legislation.”
-Stephen Hess and David Broder, The Republican Establishment: The Present
And Future Of The G.O.P., 1967, p. 107
Detroit Free Press:
“With
Gov. Romney a surprise arrival and marching in the front row, more than 500 N*groes and whites staged
a peaceful antidiscrimination parade up Grosse Pointe’s Kercheval Avenue
Saturday. … ‘the elimination of human inequalities and injustices is our urgent
and critical domestic problem,’ the governor said. … [Detroit NAACP President
Edward M.] Turner told reporters, ‘I think it is very significant that Governor
Romney is here. We are very surprised.’ Romney said, ‘If they want me to lead the
parade, I’ll be glad to.’”
- “Romney
Joins Protest March Of 500 In Grosse Pointe,” Detroit Free Press, 06.29.63
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to graduate student Laura L
Leichliter (center) and Michigan's First Lady Mrs Lenore Romney on
9 March 1966.
Governor Romney Marched In July 1963 In An NAACP-Sponsored
March Through Grosse Pointe.
“The next couple of NAACP marches into
the suburbs were more pleasant. Both Grosse Pointe and Royal Oak Township
welcomed the interracial marchers. Close to 500 black and white marchers,
including many Grosse Pointers, marched in ‘the Pointes’ that July. Governor
George Romney made a surprise appearance in his shirt sleeves and joined the
parade leaders.”
- Joe T. Darden, Detroit, Race and Uneven Development, 1987, p. 132
In 1967, George Romney Was Praised At A National Civil
Rights Rally For His Leadership:
“Michigan
Gov. George Romney walked into a N*gro Civil Rights rally in the heart of
Atlanta to the chants of ‘We Want Romney’ and to hear protests from N*groes about city schools. ‘They
had invited me to come and I was interested in hearing things that would give
me an insight into Atlanta,’ the Michigan Republican said. Led by Hosea
Williams, a top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the all-N*gro rally broke
into shouts and song when Romney arrived. ‘We’re tired of Lyndon Baines
Johnson,’ Williams said from a pulpit in the Flipper Temple AME Church as
Romney sat in a front row pew. ‘Johnson is sending black boys to Vietnam to die
for a freedom that never existed,’ Williams said. Pointing to Romney, Williams
brought the crowd of 200 to its feet when he said, ‘He may be the fella with a
little backbone.’ Williams said Romney could be ‘the next President if he acts
right.’.”
- “Romney
Praised At Civil Rights Rally In Atlanta,” The Chicago Defender,” 09.30.67
Shirley Basore, 72, says
she was sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich.,
back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights —
right past the window.
With the cape still around
her neck, Basore went outside and joined the parade.
“They were hand in hand,”
recalled Basore, a former high-school English teacher. “They led the march. We
all swung our hands, and they held their hands up above everybody else’s.”
She remembered the late
governor as “extremely handsome.”
Until this week, that was
just a vivid memory for a sweet retiree who now lives in Pompano Beach, Fla.
But Basore’s memory became
important this week when news accounts questioned the recollections of the late
Michigan governor’s son, Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate and
former Massachusetts governor.
News stories suggested
that Romney was exaggerating. It turns out that he may not have attended the
Grosse Pointe march, but it certainly happened.
The campaign posted
citations quoting one author as writing that “George Romney made a surprise
appearance in his shirt sleeves and joined the parade leaders.”
Stephen Hess and David S.
Broder also wrote about the march in their 1967 book, “The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the G.O.P.”
Basore said she was very
angry about how the issue has been covered on cable television.
“This very arrogant guy on
TV questioned Mitt Romney, and I marched with them,” Basore said. “I hope that
the campaign demands an apology. I want him to publicly apologize to me. That
was a personal insult, and an insult to Mitt Romney.”
Basore said she called the
campaign, and the campaign supplied her contact information.
Another witness, Ashby
Richardson, 64, of Massachusetts gave the campaign a similar account.
“I’m just appalled that the news picks this
stuff up and say it didn’t happen,” Richardson, now a data-collection
consultant, said by phone. “The press is being disingenuous in terms of
reporting what actually happened. I remember it vividly. I was only 15 or 20
feet from where both of them were.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7524.html
Witness, 71, recalls Romney-MLK march
Shirley Basore, 71, called the Palm
Beach Politics Blog to raise a fuss about how Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney has been treated lately in cable television
newscasts.
Basore shared a story Monday that she’s been telling national political news reporters.
It’s a tale of how she was sitting in a beauty salon in suburban
Grosse Pointe, Mich., in 1963 when a crowd gathered and she discovered
that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that state’s then-governor, George
Romney, were marching for civil rights.
When Basore saw the popular governor and civil-rights leader marching, she unhesitatingly joined the parade.
“Their hands were in the air, and they took up the entire street,”
Basore recalled. “I was getting my hair done, and I still had on a bib
but I ran out and shook hands with the both of them. It’s true. They
were there.”
As for George Romney, Mitt Romney’s father, Basore says: “He was a very handsome, educated, smooth man.”
Until this month, Basore figured her story was just a fading memory
for the former high-school English teacher, who now lives in Pompano
Beach in Broward County.
But the story has taken on more importance this month with news
accounts questioning Mitt Romney’s accuracy in telling the story of his
father’s march with King.
News stories last week suggested that Romney exaggerated, and that he
may not have personally witnessed the march. Some reports even
suggested, Basore says, that the march may not have occurred. Romney and
his campaign staff have insisted that the march transpired and was an
important civil-rights development in Michigan. It’s a point on which
Basore agrees.
“I remember the whole thing, like it were yesterday,” Basore says,
adding that she so liked George Romney, she’s sure that his son would
make a good president. A long-time Republican, Basore said she’s
planning to vote for Romney in the Jan. 29 Florida presidential primary.
“King
spoke positively about the possible [presidential] candidacies of
republicans George Romney, Charles Percy, and Nelson Rockefeller.”
- David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross:
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Pulitzer-Prize Biography Winner, 1986, p 575
George Romney Attended King’s Funeral In 1968.
“Vice President Hubert
Humphrey represented the White House. Senator and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy; Mrs.
John F. Kennedy; Governor and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller of New York; the mayor of
New York City, John V Lindsay; and Michigan’s governor, George Romney, were
present.”
-Octavia Vivian, Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King, 2006, p 99
George Romney Joined Other Prominent Americans In Attending
King’s Funeral
“Inside was the greatest
galaxy of prominent national figures there had ever been in Atlanta at one
time: Robert Kennedy, George Romney, Mayor Carl Stokes of Cleveland, Nixon,
Rockefeller, Harry Belafonte, and an endless array of others equally as
famous. Coretta Scott King, sitting with
her family front and center in front of the casket, looked lovely and
courageous and dignified in a black mourning veil.”
- Franklin Miller Garrett, Atlanta and
Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1987, p 517
After King’s Assassination, George Romney
Declared An Official Period Of Mourning, Ordered All Flags To Be Flown At Half
Staff And Said King’s Death Was “A Great National Tragedy
“On April 4, 1968, Martin
Luther King Jr. was assassinated as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis,
Tenn., where he had gone to lead a civil rights march. The following day, Michigan Gov. George
Romney declared an official period of mourning for King. The period extended
through King’s funeral. Romney ordered all flags on public buildings to be
flown at half-staff and asked that the same be done on private buildings. Gov.
Romney, in an official statement, said: “The assassination of Martin Luther
King is a great national tragedy. At a time when we need aggressive nonviolent
leadership to peacefully achieve equal rights, equal opportunities and equal
responsibilities for all, his leadership will be grievously missed.”
- “Rearview Mirror: Detroit Reacts To King’s Assassination,” The
Detroit News, 04.0407
This is what would make Martin Luther King, Jr, disgusted today:
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much baby
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?
We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds
So, if an old friend I know
Drops by to say hello
Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?
Here we go again
Asking where I've been
You can't see these tears are real
I'm crying
We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And be can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds
Oh let our love survive
Or dry the tears from your eyes
Let's don't let a good thing die
When honey, you know
I've never lied to you
Mmm yeah, yeah
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