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Sen. Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948 as an open
segregationist and has never repudiated his racist stance.
Because Sen. Trent Lott praised the 100-year-old Thurmond at
his birthday party on Dec. 5, Lott wound up losing the post of
Senate majority leader, and everyone in the U.S. and awake in
December became acquainted with Thurmond's racist record.
The picture shown above is that of a C-17 Globemaster III, a
U.S. Air Force cargo plane destined to soon carry heavy
equipment to the Persian/Arabian Gulf for use in a U.S. war of
aggression against Iraq. It will help kill hundreds of
thousands of Middle Eastern people. It will be part of an
enterprise that leads to the death of U.S. troops, a
disproportionate number of whom will be young people of
color.
This is not just any C-17, but the 100th to "roll off the
assembly line," as the story in Air Force Link News put it.
(http://www.af.mil/news/Dec2002/121202250.shtml) And, on Dec.
12, a week after Thurmond's birthday, this plane was christened
the "Spirit of Strom Thurmond" in a ceremony at Andrews Air
Force Base in Maryland. Thurmond was there as the C-17's name,
painted over the crew door, was unveiled.
"It's a great honor that both the name and the spirit of a
great American resides with this airplane," said Air Force
Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper that day.
No further comment is needed. --John Catalinotto
Reprinted from the Jan. 9, 2003, issue of
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