Remembering Julian Bond
 Horace Julian Bond January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015 |
Early on, he was central to the civil rights movement which I didn't know much about. Regardless, his calm demeanor even when relating anger got my attention and I quickly learned who he was and tried to understand that which he was about.
His appearance on Saturday Night Live further galvanized my respect for him as he play acted with Garrett Morris a hilarious racially oriented spoof which likewise stuck with me for years thereafter.
Mr Bond was an American sociopolitical activist who led factions of the Civil Rights Movement back in the 1960s. He was subsequently a politician, professor and writer.
Attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which was frequently on the news of that era.
In 1971 he helped found the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, and served as its first president for nearly a decade likely the only leftist mistake he made in his life.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has subsequently become an instrument of leftist extremists funded with offshore bank accounts allowing them to escape taxes as they interfere in anything and everything that strikes their fancy.
He served four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives as well as six terms in the Georgia State Senate.
He was also chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) a promoter of all political things blackish.
I've always admired muckrakers. Julian Bond was a muckraker extraordinaire who made his case by conducting himself with tact and poise commanding a presence few others have ever been capable of rising toward.