Posted on 07/18/2013 3:10:58 PM PDT by onyx
Addressing the annual NAACP convention in Orlando, Fla., Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that opponents of Obamacare are the same kind of people who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Her comments on Tuesday came one day before the Republican-led House votes to delay key provisions of the law.
“The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing health disparities since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was also enacted,” Sebelius said. “That significance hits especially close to home. My father was a congressman from Cincinnati who voted for each of those critical civil rights laws, and who represented a district near where the late Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lived and preached.
“The same arguments against change, the same fear and misinformation that opponents used then are the same ones opponents are spreading now. ‘This won’t work,’ ‘Slow down,’ ‘Let’s wait,’ they say.
“But history shows that upholding our founding principles demands continuous work toward a more perfect union…And it requires the kind of work that the NAACP has done for more than a century to move us forward.
“You showed it in the fight against lynching and the fight for desegregation. You showed it by ensuring inalienable rights are secured in the courtroom and at the ballot box. And you showed it by supporting a health law 100 years in the making.
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All I can say to the Stick Woman (bone skinny and brittle looking) is ah, shut up!
I’m very independent in politics I don’t belong to a party I think both sides have some good and bad ideas. But the Democrats calling Republicans racist is really getting pathetic. Whenever the Republicans oppose something the Democrats call them racist. I wonder if this nut realizes the Republicans opposed nationalized healthcare when Bill & Hillary touted it in the 90’s and they were white. Republicans oppose Obama and the Democrats not cause of race but cause of ideology duh. These Democrats seem to think Republicans should kiss Obama’s feet and approve every one of his policies. Have they forgotten this is politics?
I bet Democrats think since Obama is black then all white people should feel “white guilt” and give him lee way and if you don’t your a racist.
You’re precisely right.
RATs probably do think that, and they should feel "white guilt"...Republicans have nothing to feel guilty about and should be shouting it from the rooftops.
It doesn’t matter what color your ears are, it’s what’s between them that counts.
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