TheDemocrats tweeted an Obama quote to commemorate the “Little Rock Nine”—nine black students who enrolled in a public high school in defiance of then Governor Orval Faubus. They forgot to mention one little detail though.<\/p>\n\n\n
Celebrating the nine brave African-American teenagers who walked into a Little Rock high school 57 years ago today. pic.twitter.com\/oGX9TSsmBU<\/a><\/p>\n — The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n .@TheDemocrats<\/a> and Obama forgot one small detail here. It was a DEMOCRAT Governor these brave kids defied. https:\/\/t.co\/fKfv00MxjN<\/a><\/p>\n — Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @KatMcKinley<\/a> Exactly!<\/p>\n — Andrew Christiansen (@ar_christiansen) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n And the selfie. RT@KatMcKinley<\/a> @TheDemocrats<\/a> and Obama forgot one small detail here. It was a DEMOCRAT Governor these brave kids defied.<\/p>\n — Meerrettich (@dustopian) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Yeah, it’s surprising there isn’t a staged picture of Obama at the high school in Little Rock. There must not be any good golf courses in Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n Have @TheDemocrats<\/a> become The Audacity of Dopes?
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, center of the Little Rock Nine controversy was a DEMOCRAT.<\/p>\n — Soquel by the Creek (@SoquelCreek) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Glad @TheDemocrats<\/a> are finally coming around to the Republican position since it was a Republican who ensured it against the threats of Dems<\/p>\n — Bread N. Circus (@BreadNCircusUSA) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @TheDemocrats<\/a>: Okay, cool. Did y'all forget it was @TheDemocrats<\/a> that were trying to block the #LittleRockNine<\/a> from getting that education?<\/p>\n — Jeff Yeah! (@JeffOutLoud) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n #LOL<\/a> @TheDemocrats<\/a>
Indeed DEM. Gov. Orval Faubus ordered Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling.<\/p>\n — Tom T. (@VRWCTexan) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @TheDemocrats<\/a> @KennettDems<\/a> Amazing how some folks try to "pretend" that Party roles haven't COMPLETELY reversed. DEMS once behaved like #GOP<\/a><\/p>\n — Deuce (@NUPEsupreme) September 25, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Hmmm…we must have missed the stories about Republicans using the armed forces to segregate schools.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/25\/democrats-forgot-one-small-detail-while-remembering-the-little-rock-nine\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JohnBermont\/status\/515274536321683456 TheDemocrats tweeted an Obama quote to commemorate the “Little Rock Nine”—nine black students who enrolled in a public high school in defiance of then Governor Orval Faubus. They forgot to mention one little detail though. Celebrating the nine brave African-American teenagers who walked into a Little Rock high school 57 years ago today. pic.twitter.com\/oGX9TSsmBU … Continue reading Dems ‘forgot one small detail’ while remembering the Little Rock Nine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[182,181],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-african-american-teenagers","tag-little-rock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/14249224373416-little-rock-nine.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}