Comments on: From Sidney Poitier’s Cold, Dead Hands http://www.liberadio.com/2008/04/07/from-sydney-poitiers-cold-dead-hands/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:27:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Martin Kennedy http://www.liberadio.com/2008/04/07/from-sydney-poitiers-cold-dead-hands/#comment-96536 Martin Kennedy Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:51:02 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/2008/04/07/from-sydney-poitiers-cold-dead-hands/#comment-96536 Wow, what Kleinheider says... though I'm not nearly as cynical as Klondike. Sidney Poitier played the refined, dignified black man, a non-threatening black - To Sir with Love, Guess who'd Coming to Dinner, Lilies of the Field - the NRA would have been salivating to get some one like him as a spokesman. Maybe I am just as cyncical. Wow, what Kleinheider says… though I’m not nearly as cynical as Klondike. Sidney Poitier played the refined, dignified black man, a non-threatening black - To Sir with Love, Guess who’d Coming to Dinner, Lilies of the Field - the NRA would have been salivating to get some one like him as a spokesman.

Maybe I am just as cyncical.

]]> By: Kleinheider http://www.liberadio.com/2008/04/07/from-sydney-poitiers-cold-dead-hands/#comment-96008 Kleinheider Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:45:39 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/2008/04/07/from-sydney-poitiers-cold-dead-hands/#comment-96008 I don't understand. Are you saying that if Poitier had made the exact same journey as Heston he would not have been accepted by the NRA on racial grounds? The Right loves tokens. Loves them. The NRA would not for one second have hesitated to embrace Poitier as its token spokesman if he was even slightly down with the cause. I don’t understand. Are you saying that if Poitier had made the exact same journey as Heston he would not have been accepted by the NRA on racial grounds?

The Right loves tokens. Loves them. The NRA would not for one second have hesitated to embrace Poitier as its token spokesman if he was even slightly down with the cause.

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