Don't forget that Alabama also honored Helen Keller on their State Quarter a while back.

They just wanted to get that "free public education" guy outta there.

It's just a shame that Keller didn't live long enough to see this.

So.... this means that Steve likes Hellen Keller because she is a socialist and a Marxist?

Good to see the transparency.

So we can all agree that President Obama is a socialist. Glad we had this meeting.

There truly is beauty and profundity here, the more you think about this very paradoxical and uncharacteristic gesture by the state of Alabama.

As a former southern cracker, I appreciate such blind acorn discoveries -- such broke clock 2 times true incidents -- when they happen.

Too often in America this is how Keller is remembered, as a little girl. Once she stops being a child and a symbol of wholesome perseverance she is forgotten. Most Americans do not know anything that was not covered in The Miracle Worker so I doubt this statue will cause much controversy. Especially when those likely to be most upset never bothered to learn what tea bagging is.

The thing is, to the present day right, Jabez Curry, despite his Confederate service, is regarded as an evil figure, for his involvement in establishing the public school system:

http://www.amazon.com/Destroying-Republic-Jabez-Curry-Re-education/dp/0875864015

Helen Keller was a Wobbly.

http://knowyourgovernment.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/william-big-bill-haywood-labor-agitator/

That's nothing, we have a statue of the "Father of Gynecology" on the Capitol Grounds, right down from the statue of Jefferson Davis.

For the irony deprived, her hometown, Tuscumbia, has an annual Hellen Keller festival which usually involves showing the movie The Miracle Worker.

Oh yeah, she was also a founding member of the ACLU

Whoa there lugubrious rodeo cowboy

Has Glenn Beck heard about this? Has he launched a boycott against Alabama yet?

Nah. Alabama is a cash cow for Murdoch.
If this was Vermont, there would be a ton of mooing...
Murdoch's people know when and where to milk the hate.

It's just a shame that Keller didn't live long enough to see this.

BillfromPA, I hope that's a joke. . .

and neill, mentioning 'blind' and 'acorn'in the same sentence is SURE to draw Glenn Beck's attention to this post. . .

All I can figure is that the alternative to Ms. Keller was rather darker.

"So, one of the most conservative states in the union has unveiled a statue in the Capitol honoring one of the most famous American socialists in history.

Has Glenn Beck heard about this? Has he launched a boycott against Alabama yet?"

Keep in mind you are describing the type of person who extolls the virtue of the Pledge of Allegiance, while never acknowledging it was written by a Christian Socialist.

Then use this as a teaching moment, because there's no way in fucking hell most people know Keller's radicalism. She's a neutered figure whose personal history was completely whitewashed and homogenized for public consumption -- a Pat Tillman of past times.

It is hilarious though that they decided to axe the liberal Confederate who advocated public eduction and not the one who remains, a pig named Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler, a guy who got steamrolled by Sherman during his march, helped undermine Reconstruction, volunteered for the Spanish-American War and then commanded a brigade in the Philippines. It's almost impossible to fight for so many shitty causes in one life.

"So, one of the most conservative states in the union has unveiled a statue in the Capitol honoring one of the most famous American socialists in history.

Has Glenn Beck heard about this? Has he launched a boycott against Alabama yet?"

Beck's gonna just throw a shit-fit when someone tells him the guy who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy, was a Christian Socialist, who, despite being a Baptist minister, delibrately omitted the mention of God from the pledge (it was revised in the 1950s),

I'm just amazed that one of the two statues
is not of Bear Bryant. It is from Alabama after all.

Heck, why not BOTH statues?

Better a statue of Coach Bryant than Joe Wheeler. G
Roll Tide!

Not to mention that Helen Keller was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (the "Wobblies") and helped to found the ACLU!

Beck will have an aneurysm, to be sure.

and two other people beat me to my comment. read comments before posting, read comments before posting... :)

But Beck will still have an aneurysm.

Is it true that Arkansas' statues are a pair of garden gnomes?

I didn't know about the socialist part. I was assuming it was an anti-abortion thing. You know, severe handicaps are no reason to deny life to any fetus because look what they can accomplish.

I didn't know about the socialist part. I was assuming it was an anti-abortion thing.

Probably not:
http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=193&SubTopicID=20&DocumentID=1097

I was assuming it was an anti-abortion thing. You know, severe handicaps are no reason to deny life to any fetus because look what they can accomplish.

Oh, she was fine when she was born. Scarlet fever got her.

But your comment made me guffaw anyway.

So, one of the most conservative states in the union has unveiled a statue in the Capitol honoring one of the most famous American socialists in history.

Which just goes to prove the all the Beckazoids, teabaggers' and rightwing shrieking (not limited to people from Alabama, of course) about "the evils of socialism" are coming from people who don't have the faintest clue as to what it is they're talking about.

i backed into that pun about "blind acorns" with my own (mental) blindness.

Thank goodness it was Helen Keller who taught us that one can see quite well even without functioning eyes -- she did, better than me.

And if Beck is drawn to this story -- great! it will add to his repugnance, hopefully eventuating his rejection.

(A joke from my comedic repertoire at age 10):

How did Helen Keller burn her fingers?

By trying to read a waffle iron.

Alabama also honored Helen Keller on their State Quarter a while back.

Only the third actual woman ever to appear on a US coin, joining Susan B Anthony and Sacagawea.

Already being aware of Ms. Keller's political activities, I was surprised to see her on the quarter. This just adds to it.

Helen Keller was also a mystical Christian, following the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. I'm sure some of her socialist leanings came from this radical Christian affinity.

She wrote about it in the book "Light in my Darkness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_in_my_Darkness

You'd have to be blind to be a socialist

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