Why has this been ignored by the main stream Media?
Sunday, Aug. 3, 2003 3:17 p.m. EDT
Hillary: I'm Grateful I Grew up in 'White Suburbs'
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she was "very grateful" to have to grown up in "the 1950s white suburbs."
Contending that conservatives wanted to roll back the civil rights movement, Sen. Clinton told the American Constitution Society in Washington, D.C., that she was trying to figure out "what is that golden age that they want to go back to."
Then, in a remark reminiscent of Sen. Trent Lott's praise last year for the segregationist presidential campaign of the late Strom Thurmond, the former first lady asked if conservatives meant to take the country "back to the 1950s white suburbs for family life, which I grew up in and write about in my book – and am very grateful for."
Despite expressing gratitude for the all-white surroundings of her Park Ridge, Chicago, youth, Sen. Clinton told the ACS that her hometown "didn't exactly describe the universal experience in America."
She said it was a time "before Brown v. Board, when people were told that in this country we should to try to integrate our schools."
Though Sen. Clinton's comments were televised on C-SPAN, her praise for the "white suburbs" of her youth has so far gone unreported by the mainstream press.
The former first lady's full remarks on the topic went like this:
"There are just a lot of things that happened in the 20th century that some people apparently just couldn't get over. So, starting in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s – and with greater acceleration and commitment in the '70s until the current time – there has been a commitment to trying to go back to some golden age.
"Walter Dellinger and I were talking about a panel that will be held tomorrow to try to figure out exactly what was that golden age that they want to go back to.
"You know, is it back to the 1950s white suburbs for family life, which I grew up in and write about in my book – and am very grateful for – but didn't exactly describe the universal experience in America?
"Is it back before Brown v. Board, when people were told in this country we should try to integrate our schools and provide equal opportunity in fact, not just in theory?
"Is back before the New Deal and many of the changes that actually saved capitalism in the eyes of many historians?
"Is it back to before the Progressive era, when children were told that they could no longer work in factories and immigrants were being given the rights and tools to assume a roll in American society?
"Is it back to crony capitalism and the robber baron area [sic]? I don't know. I think it's a combination of all of that." [End of Excerpt]
All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.
