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| Source:The Birch Swingers- U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Democrat, New York) perhaps in 1966. |
Source:FreeState MD
“Bobby Kennedy’s Day of Affirmation speech set to the soundtrack of the Social Network & Gladiator. The Day of Affirmation speech was a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy to National Union of South African Students members at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 6, 1966. Kennedy, who was then a U.S. Senator from New York, gave the speech two years before his 1968 presidential campaign, which came to an end when Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles.
Considered to be one of his greatest speeches, the Day of Affirmation Address, coupled with Ted Kennedy’s eulogy for Bobby, offer precious words of wisdom decades after their initial utterance.”
From The Birch Swingers
Senator Robert F. Kennedy giving a great, liberal democratic speech. And I should explain what I mean by that.
A lot of Bobby Kennedy’s supporters are quite frankly, Hippiecrats. People who I like to call limousine liberals. Those are folks who talk like hippie-leftists, who like to blame America, blame the rich, (while leaving themselves out, of course) as well as people that they like to call “white people”, or people they would call white men, or just white males, or even white boys, (except of course themselves) for everything that they think is wrong with America and the rest of the world. When the fact is, the so-called limousine liberals, are just as liberal as everyone else, who love American capitalism and liberal democracy. Meaning they’re real Liberals, not faux-leftists.
What Senator Kennedy was doing here, (I guess in 1966) was making the case for liberal democracy. And not just for European-Americans, or in this case Afrikaans , who are European-South Africans, but for everybody. And why everyone is entitled to live in freedom. Regardless of their racial or ethnic background.
This wasn’t some new-left, revolutionary, hippie speech, calling for the fall of America and “taking down the man” and calling that liberalism, which of course it isn’t.
