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If Alabama Bridges Could Talk by Bob Miller
In the rough and tumble of Alabama
politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. Karl Rove in a successful series of campaigns to get
Republicans elected to Alabama's state courts.
Karl Rove and Richard Shelby are both considered American patriots in my home
state of Alabama. That's not surprising since inbreeding has reduced the brains of Alabama
voters to the extent they believed the racist George C. Wallace was none other than Jesus
Christ who had returned to save them from Satan who was responsible for their incest and
bigotry.
Talk about hypocrisy. When I was growing up in Florence, Alabama, you couldn't
have found a home that didn't have a picture of George C. Wallace and the Last Supper in
it. After dragging some black guy behind their pickup truck or throwing him off a bridge,
they'd come home to supper and sit under this picture and say a prayer asking for more
blacks to put to work in their cotton fields and to use for target practice.
I'll never forget fishing under the O'Neal Bridge and watching as some guys threw
a young black man off of it. He hit the water and skipped like a flat rock. I started up
our little Johnson outboard motor to go to the area where the guy had hit. My stepfather
asked, "What do think you're doing? You mess with this, and tomorrow you'll be thrown
off of some bridge." To my stepfather's credit, he thought it was okay for blacks to
play professional sports, "Just so long as they stay in their place." I asked
what place was that, but he didn't bother to say. A few days later, a deputy sheriff on
hearing about this KKK event advised me, using many of the same words that my stepfather
had used absent of any concern for my welfare, to avoid becoming known as a, "Nigger
lover".
Bob Miller was shot down twice in Vietnam (1968 and 1969). He was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. Miller is a 100% service connected disabled
veteran. Miller ran for a seat in the US Senate in 1992.
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