Posted on 04/02/2010 12:53:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I still say that anybody who makes this statement is racist.
Racist little article, isn’t it ?
Voting for color - as one in every 2 people seemed to do two years ago, is racist as hell. His guarded walk to the inauguration and his vote are both because of skin color.
Pay no attention to the article. A butler for 8 presidents and he is STILL not smart enough to vote based on merits.
Agreed. And why is it that whenever the media does one of those “human interest” pieces on an elderly black person, the first thing they always ask him about is how excited he must feel about the “historic” election of Barack Obama?
Tears in his eyes at being used as a political symbol? Didn’t he notice that all of those Jim Crow politicians who governed during his years under segregation were Democrats? ALL of them?
Sounds like a classy and respectful man for not selling his stories about the presidents even though he could have likely used the cash.
Who am I missing?
“Democrats? ALL of them?”
Nom not all of them as there were Southern Republicans who opposed the Civil Rights Acts.
Not sure why you think he could use the cash. I’m sure he had a nice salary, benefits, bonuses, etc.
I suppose “all” is a bit sweeping. But there weren’t a whole lot of Republican politicians in office down South until the Dems switched over to the other side.
Everyone needs cash.
There were a few Republicans in the South and they did not support civil rights.
Thats not to say he did not keep journals. Hopefully he did.
God bless his soul.
OK. Name one Southern Republican Senator that opposed the Civil Rights legislation. I will make this easy for you. There weren’t any. Period. There not even any Southern Republican political office holders at the time. From Virginia to Texas, it was all Dems all the time.
John Tower-Texas.
RIP.
I grew up in the segregated South, and a couple of parents in our elementary school were pointed out because they VOTED Republican. Straight ticket.
I cannot remember a single Republican congressman in the Deep South from the late 1950s through the Civil Rights Act. Admittedly I don't know every politician in the South, but I'm pretty sure there were none in Georgia or Alabama. About the only thing I can think of is maybe a lone Pubbie in Atlanta or Charleston . . . maybe . . . but I doubt it and I'm sure I would have heard about it, because my parents marched at Selma.
But he was the ONLY Republican anywhere in the South in his first term. So your statement 'there were a few Republicans in the South' is inaccurate. There was one. And he wasn't from the Deep South.
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