And yet it was Republicans who overwhelmingly passed the Civil Rights Act, vs. the Democrats who tried to defeat it.
But it's okay that Robert KKK Byrd is still a democrat U.S. Senator.
And go back even further to the late 1860's, it was the Republicans that had every constitutional or Natural Right restored by law to Blacks but by the end of the next Democrat regime all 23 laws were overturned. The Democrats have and always will be the true racists, the ones that through promises and rhetoric keep more people oppressed than military might ever could.
"And yet it was Republicans who overwhelmingly passed the Civil Rights Act, vs. the Democrats who tried to defeat it."
I'd be careful about that statement. The dixiecrats voted against the civil rights act. The Dixiecrats then overwhelming switched party in protest. So the majority of of those who ovted agianst that (the left's keeps pointing out Strom Thurmond) are now republicans.
Like the Democrats should talk with former Klansmen Sen. Byrd as a member.
If we can purge the racists out of our party then we have a shot at the black vote. But as long as we're idealizing Thurmond, its a lost cause. The vast majority of republicans are not rasicts but the left likes to use the fringe to paint us all as racists.
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Yeah...and I can't believe Cal Thomas let Neal Gabler get by with saying just the opposite on Newswatch last week. Cal started to rebut him and then got sidetracked. Gabler was just wrong.