I once wrote of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Montgomery, Ala. headquarters, after having beheld it with mine own eyes in 2005 for the first and probably only time in my life, taking its tacky measure, that it looked like some gawdy museum of post-modern art that one would find in Yonkers, and that it was wholly out of place in a city like Montgomery that has a lot of graceful older public architecture.
As their current stilted metal trailer was built in the mid-to-late 1990s to replace its former smaller building across the street which it sets, the older building was being converted at the time to a civil rights museum, which will get fewer visitors in one year than the Grand Canyon gets in one hour, I also floated a theory that Dees, Potok, Beirich, Cohen and Co. chose that sort of design in order to show off, as to say “screw you Montgomery.” Any state capital city is generally going to be more liberal than the rest of the state, and so it is with Montgomery. But even there, the SPLC doesn’t exactly have the respect of their civic elite, even its daily newspaper. You gotta think that the SPLC knows it.
Curiously, the building for the Alabama Chapter of the National Education Association is in the same square block as the Poverty Palace. I could just imagine that there’s a conveyor belt wheedling propaganda from south to north.
Steve Sailer today has echoed some very familiar thoughts. It’s either a matter of great minds think alike, or he just happened to get the summer 2005 issue of the Citizens Informer.
