How on earth did a guy with this history ever get to be President of the United States? How is it that the media did not trot this out and make it a major part of his biography during the 1976 campaign? How is it that his fellow candidates for the nomination -- including Teddy Kennedy in 1980 -- failed to bring this matter up? And how on earth does one of the most disgusting pieces of excrement who defiled the Oval Office dare to lecture America on racism after his own history of perpetuating racism and segregation?

When Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, to become a peanut farmer after serving in the Navy, he became a member of the Sumter County School Board, which did not implement the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Instead, the board continued to segregate school children on the streets of Carter’s hometown.

As Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU’s Voting Project, relates in his book A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia, Carter’s board tried to stop the construction of a new “Elementary Negro School” in 1956. Local white citizens had complained that the school would be “too close” to a white school. As a result, “the children, both colored and white, would have to travel the same streets and roads in order to reach their respective schools.” The prospect of black and white children commingling on the streets on their way to school was apparently so horrible to Carter that he requested that the state school board stop construction of the black school until a new site could be found. The state board turned down Carter’s request because of “the staggering cost.” Carter and the rest of the Sumter County School Board then reassured parents at a meeting on October 5, 1956, that the board “would do everything in its power to minimize simultaneous traffic between white and colored students in route to and from school.”

I've long noted that it was the Democrats who kept African-Americans subjected to various forms of oppression for decades after the Civil War. I've noted that the worst racist to ever occupy the White House was Democrat icon Woodrow Wilson. I've even noted that a pathetic old Kluxer named Robert Byrd still defiles the Senate with his presence, proclaimed a statesman by the Democrats. But now we find that there has been a systematic cover up of the fact that Jimmy Carter was not only not a force for ending Jim Crow in Georgia, but was in fact one of those committed to massive resistance of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Racist? Look in the mirror, Jimmy!