Talk:Wade Watts

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As far as Wade Watts being unknown,

Civil Rights leader Wade Watts served as both the Oklahoma State President 1968 to 1984 of the N.A.A.C.P and Executive Director of the NAACP.

The late Wade Watts also worked along with leaders such as Thurgood Marshall and was the uncle of Congressman J.C. Watts. He is also an author see http://www.impactcommunications.net/books.htm

His nephew Congressman J.C. Watts also quotes him on several occasions as a great civil rights leader, in his response to the president from his book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060194367/002-5836707-1356025?v=glance&n=283155

http://www.starbittrune.com/watts.html :

"I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and from my uncle, Wade Watts, to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character does count, and that character is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking."

He was also a former member of President Lyndon Johnson's civil rights commission and a close personal friend of Martin Luther King. For his contribution to black people a street was named after him: "Wade Watts Ave McAlester" in Okalahoma. He was very well respected both civil rights and church circles http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r104:H01FE5-10:

Need we any more verifications? Nick. Potters house 07:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

No, but we need these in the article not on the talk page. Gwernol 13:01, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Watts and Johnny Lee Clary

Pending undeletion of the Johnny Lee Clary article, I suggest we summarize the relationship between Clary and Rev. Watts here. How about the 'kiss the chicken' story. I swear I heard that in a previous century.... --Uncle Ed 15:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Much Thanks

Thank you for making this article. I have been off the net for a few days and it is a joy to see that someone has been working in it. Cheers - Nick. Potters house 07:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Interesting retorts

• "I don't eat Negroes." (after hearing, "We don't serve Negroes")
• Kissed a piece of chicken (after hearing, "I'm going to do to you what you do to that chicken.")

The Chicken Kissing Story Proven True

Johnny Lee Clary's story about Wade Watts kissing a chicken is NOT a fake. The above statement that Clary is somehow the "sole source" is not true. Watts himself tells it and verifies it. [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejOWchwQxvw ( 5:20 ) ]] Whether Watts knew Dick Gregory and about the incident he writes about is unknown and could have been where he got the idea to handle Clary and the Klan if he did, but to say Clary's story is fake is just and slanderous accusation with no proof. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejOWchwQxvw ( 5:20 )<ref> ReaganRebel(talk) 07:31, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

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