TLK Valentine
I've already read the books you want burned.
- Apr 15, 2012
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This is the most absurd point we hear so much from the Right. As if the Democrat party of the 21st century is the exact same as the one that held control in the South during the 19th century. It is utterly maddening.
And how does it not matter now? Had they no practiced their own form of apartheid would the south have/be better off? Would race relations be better today without Jim Crow?No one stumbles over racist Southern Democrats, it's a fact of history. What's hilarious is pretending as if that matters now.
Thank you for repudiating reparations......I think most people understand, the racism someone perpetuates today is far more important than the racism of people that no longer exist.
Could you please take the time in your busy schedule to post the article/section where racism is enshrined as a permanent fixture in the Constitution? While you are at it could you also post the article/section where slavery is mentioned at all?......I am afraid I might have missed something.....My favorite is watching people embrace the Confederacy arguing it has nothing to do with racism, while doing mental gymnastics to say the Democrats—you know, the people that made up the Confederacy—were racists, but not the failed state they created that enshrined racism as a permanent fixture of its Constitution.
Who?......African-Americans?......wow, what an acknowledgement.......They love the "Democrats' flag," but not the Democrats? Yep, they keep dancing.
And how does it not matter now? Had they no practiced their own form of apartheid would the south have/be better off? Would race relations be better today without Jim Crow?
Good grief. SM was talking about the failed state of the confederacy and its constitution.....Could you please take the time in your busy schedule to post the article/section where racism is enshrined as a permanent fixture in the Constitution? While you are at it could you also post the article/section where slavery is mentioned at all?......I am afraid I might have missed something...
You are right, I did miss that. Thanks for pointing it out......mea culpa.....Good grief. SM was talking about the failed state of the confederacy and its constitution.
Yes you missed something plain as day,
This was 50-60 years ago ...Actually most didn't, they stayed democrats.....Wallace, Byrd, Bull Connor, Sen. J. William Fulbright, Joe Biden....the list is extensive...... Strom Thurmond was an exception. LBJ was the biggest racist president since Woodrow Wilson.
Hannity: Dems have 'zero credibility' on race issue after George Wallace, Robert Byrd, Al Gore Sr.
Thank God BLM is not a political party ...Any organization that stands for a particular race is not going to win anything. Take BLM for example.
Thank God BLM is not a political party ...
That's why I referred to it as an organization. Political parties listen to organizations, such as BLM.
Nonetheless they are the parents of racism and Jim Crow......a legacy I have no intention of letting them forget about......especially when they try to throw the race card at white republicans.......
The parents want to disown the child --
Speaking of Strom Thurmond...
(James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician, military officer, and attorney who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Thurmond was a member of the Democratic Party until 1964 when he joined the Republican Party for the remainder of his legislative career.)
Speaking of Strom Thurmond...
(James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician, military officer, and attorney who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Thurmond was a member of the Democratic Party until 1964 when he joined the Republican Party for the remainder of his legislative career.)
Now do Robert Byrd.
in 1952, he announced "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in [the KKK]
He not only apologized for his past actions, he also championed civil rights afterwards. I figure that should stand for something.Did he magically change his convictions which led him to join the KKK in the first place? After all, a tiger can't change his stripes.
He not only apologized for his past actions, he also championed civil rights afterwards. I figure that should stand for something.
^^^LBJ said that.Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.
“I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County . . . The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union.”
Did he magically change his convictions which led him to join the KKK in the first place? After all, a tiger can't change his stripes.
Who dismissed it?And it's just dismissed that Byrd used racial slurs on Fox News as late as 2008...are we then to overlook that?
No, but it was elected GOP officials that made pictures of the White House with a watermelon patch when President Obama came into office. It was a GOP mailer that depicted President Obama with racist stereotypes. It was a GOP voter ID law that was struck down in NC because they specifically targeted African Americans with surgical precision. Or how about the Trump state campaign chair that called Michelle Obama a gorilla. Or how about the unpopular one-term president who used birtherism to launch his political career. Birtherism is racism. And let's not forget people that worked for that failed administration being unabashed white supremacists.
Really, the racism that runs in the modern GOP has a long history. I know, bring up the Democratic Party and the Confederacy, as if that is relevant in today's day and age. Last I checked, it wasn't Democrats clamoring to wave a failed, traitorous 19th century battle standard in the 21st century.
He not only apologized for his past actions, he also championed civil rights afterwards. I figure that should stand for something.
I just find it so odd that there is all this reaching back to the 1950s to talk about racism when we have racism here and now, and it's not isolated.
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