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Owner59 -> RE: Racism alive and doing well in the south (7/27/2011 7:29:16 PM)
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ORIGINAL: whipher1
yes but remember your history lession
http://gopcapitalist.tripod.com/democratrecord.htmlquote:
ORIGINAL:
Democrat Senators organized the record Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Included among the organizers were several prominent and well known liberal Democrat standard bearers including:
- Robert Byrd, current senator from West Virginia
- J. William Fulbright, Arkansas senator and political mentor of Bill Clinton
- Albert Gore Sr., Tennessee senator, father and political mentor of Al Gore. Gore Jr. has been known to lie about his father's opposition to the Civil Rights Act.
- Sam Ervin, North Carolina senator of Watergate hearings fame
- Richard Russell, famed Georgia senator and later President Pro Tempore
The complete list of the 21 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes Senators:
- Hill and Sparkman of Alabama
- Fulbright and McClellan of Arkansas
- Holland and Smathers of Florida
- Russell and Talmadge of Georgia
- Ellender and Long of Louisiana
- Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi
- Ervin and Jordan of North Carolina
- Johnston and Thurmond of South Carolina
- Gore Sr. and Walters of Tennessee
- H. Byrd and Robertson of Virginia
- R. Byrd of West Virginia
Fightdirecto
I do love the “false equivalency” arguments (taking two different things and claiming they are exactly the same to justify an action or position):
Senator Robert Byrd, when a young man, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Despite the fact that he publically renounced the Klan and it’s doctrines and worked for civil rights for most of his later life, because he had once been a Klansman and later became a leader of the Democratic Party - all Democrats are white supremacist racists and are in 2011 (to quote popeye1250 from Page 2 of this discussion) “The Party of the Klan”?
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War over a hundred years ago. Despite the fact that many white supremacist racists left the Democratic Party in 1948, formed the Dixiecrat Party and later joined the Republican Party and achieved positions of leadership within the Republican Party (i.e. Strom Thurmond) – all 2011 Republicans are totally unprejudiced and unbiased and love all Americans who are Black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered, openly kinky, non-Protestant Christian or atheist?
Anti-Bush protestors called President Bush and Vice-President Cheney “Nazis” - so calling President Obama a “Kenyan”, a “baboon”, a “closet Muslim” and a "half-White usurper of the Presidency" is acceptable?
The late writer Molly Ivans called President George Bush “Shrub” - so calling President Barack Obama “Obumma” is acceptable?
It is a documented historic fact that, in the 1920s, the state of Indiana had the largest membership of Ku Klux Klansman in the United States – but does that mean that the Klansmen who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 killing several black children are somehow not as guilty of murder - because the bombing wasn’t in Indiana?
In Jasper Texas a Black man, James Byrd, Jr., was dragged behind a truck by three White Men and died – but that’s okay because some Black man in Harlem called a White man a “honkey” last week?
History lesson part II.
This is why Thurmond and other "dems" left the democratic party.
And what party did they join?
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