#blacklisting

Yes. He was really blacklisted. His label pulled his music from radio when it was getting too successful, refused to send his records to radio even when it was requested, never gave him proper promotion, sent him on a promo tour of measly little UK radio stations and had every single DJ spend the whole interview asking Louis about Eleanor and Freddie, I mean… the indignities were endless.

But that’s just one aspect of why Louis’ career was stalled. It’s complex and layered and we probably don’t even know more than 2% of what went on.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury: Welcome to Modern Day McCarthyism

This video is well worth watching! It is about H.R.8706 - Dismantle DEI Act of 2024, which Stansbury refers to as "just the start of the President-Elect's purge."

PARTIAL VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

REP. MELANIE STANSBURY: But what is particularly peculiar about this massive bill that's been introduced--and I want to note that the co-sponsor of this bill or this primary sponsor of this bill in the Senate is Mr. J.D. Vance our vice president-elect—is it literally, as the title says, is about dismantling diversity equity and inclusion programs in the federal government. It revokes executive orders, it amends the Civil Rights Act, and it amends other parts of the federal code that protect our federal employees. And then it has this peculiar section that the ranking member talked about, which is actually essentially creating lists of federal employees and contractors that would never be eligible to work for the federal government again. Now we have a word for that in common parlance. We call it “blacklisting.” And blacklisting comes from the 1950s, when here in this House of Representatives there was a Committee on Unamerican Affairs that was convened under Joe McCarthy. The purpose of that was to purge the federal government, and to accuse federal employees, and blacklist them from future federal employment. So I'd like to say: Welcome to the New House Committee on Unamerican Affairs and to the New McCarthyism because we have arrived here today! [emphasis added]

Laurence Tribe: Excellent!

The Weavers—from left to right, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Fred Hellerman—gave a concert on December 26, 1952, that was broadcast on WNYC. The clip above is the final number. Their message of peace and unity did not please HUAC, and they were blacklisted for the rest of the decade.

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