Whitewashing the racist/anti-Catholic legacy of Justice Hugo Black: That is apparently the full-time job of Steve Suitts–author of the recently published "Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution," founder of the Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, and third-rate hack.
In the July 18th edition of the Fulton County Daily Report, which is not currently available online, Suitts penned a pathetic hit piece against Judge William H. Pryor, Jr., entitled "Misjudging Hugo Black: Pryor restraint needed." But before I begin my point-by-point rejoinder, allow me to provide some background information that will help place Suitts’s piece in its proper context.
On the evening of August 11, 1921, Edwin Stephenson, a Methodist minister, shot and killed Father James Coyle, a Catholic priest, for marrying his daughter to a Puerto Rican that Stephenson believed was a "ni**er." Stephenson was also apparently upset with Father Coyle for playing a significant role in his daughter’s decision to convert to Catholicism.
Oh, and you’re not going to read the rest of this one? Sure….
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