Racist e-mails reveal ugly side of Republicanism

[Afro-European]

An e-mail sent by a Republican aide, entitled Historical Keepsake Photo, features portraits of the first 43 American presidents in a variety of dignified and statesmanlike poses. The succession of white faces, however, comes to an abrupt halt in the final and 44th panel which displays just a pair of cartoon eyeballs set against an entirely dark background.
Little more than six months since the US elected its first black president and Barack Obama declared “change has come to America”, hopes that the country is finally overcoming a racist past are being tempered by evidence that parts of it — sections of the Republican Party in particular — remain aghast at the notion of a black First Family.
While most of the country shifted towards Democrats in November, a striking swath, stretching from rural western Pennsylvania, extending southwest through Appalachia and encompassing most of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, swung against Mr Obama. Sherri Goforth, who works as a legislative assistant for the Republican leadership in the Tennessee state senate, was given a written reprimand this week but allowed to keep her job after being identified as having sent out the e-mail with the presidential portraits.
Asked if she understood that the depiction of Mr Obama was offensive, Ms Goforth was quoted as saying she regretted sending it to the wrong e-mail list. “I inadvertently hit the wrong button,” she said. “I’m very sick about it and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”
Nor was this the only such instance in recent weeks. The internet is providing glimpses of an unreconstructed underbelly of America, which, in turn, is being seized upon and presented in vivid detail by liberal websites such as Wonkette or the Daily Kos.
Earlier this month Diann Jones, a vice-chairman of the Collin County Republican Party in Texas, apologised for an e-mail that denounced plans for a tax on guns as “another terrific idea from the black house and its minions”. In February, Dean Grose, the mayor of Los Alamitos in California, sent an e-mail to a black businesswoman, depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons. Mr Grose said he had not meant to cause offence and that he was unaware of the stereotype that the African-American diet consisted of watermelon or fried chicken.
Carol Carter, a member of Florida’s state Republican committee, mused in an e-mail to colleagues in January on black people’s ability to travel to Mr Obama’s inauguration when so many had drowned in Hurricane Katrina. “I’m confused,” she said. “How can 2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, DC in one day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days notice?” She was forced to resign but not before begging readers of the e-mail to show they had a “sense of humour”. The local Republican executive declared that Ms Carter “doesn’t have a racist bone in her body”.
The Republican Party earlier this year elected Michael Steele as its first black National Committee chairman . He has acknowledged, however, that the party’s difficulties with ethnic minority votes will not be solved easily because too many officials “don’t give a damn”. To them, he said, “outreach means let’s throw a cocktail party, find some black folks and Hispanics and women, wrap our arms around them — ‘See, look at us’. And then we go back to the same old, same old.”
One of his opponents during the contest was Chip Saltsman, the former Tennessee Republican chairman who sent friends a Christmas gift of songs by the satirist Paul Shanklin, including the track: “Barack the Magic Negro”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6515145.ece

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One Republican sent a mock photo of a White House watermelon garden

[Lau]

Oh no, they have a sense of humor, shame on them!! ;)

[Connaught Ranger]

This type of mentality, just proves there are idiots in all walks of life, regardless of politics, religion or race.

[Kilgor]

Oh no, they have a sense of humor, shame on them!! ;)

Just don''t make fun of Sarah Palin's daughter, mkay..

[XShipRider]

And we all know there is no ugly side to the Democrat Party. That is, unless you; stand on principle, have a value, believe in a God, actually speak to a conservative, own a large suburban home (exception Gore, of course), laugh at jokes about Gov Palin or her daughters, actually pay your taxes (see; appointees of President Obama), earn more than minimum wage, don't belong to a union, happen to be an average white male, believe in marriage between one man and one woman, vote with them 99.9% of the time but supported the war in Iraq (see; Lieberman, Sen. Joe), abhor abortion, et cetera.

All parties have members who are the ugly cousins.

[Lau]

Just don''t make fun of Sarah Palin's daughter, mkay..

Hypocrites, all of them!

[Invisigoth]

And we all know there is no ugly side to the Democrat Party. That is, unless you; stand on principle, have a value, believe in a God, actually speak to a conservative, own a large suburban home (exception Gore, of course), laugh at jokes about Gov Palin or her daughters, actually pay your taxes (see; appointees of President Obama), earn more than minimum wage, don't belong to a union, happen to be an average white male, believe in marriage between one man and one woman, vote with them 99.9% of the time but supported the war in Iraq (see; Lieberman, Sen. Joe), abhor abortion, et cetera.

All parties have members who are the ugly cousins.

I guess that makes it ok :)

[Geezah]

Oh no, they have a sense of humor, shame on them!! ;)

Probably the first and last time I will ever agree with you.

[filochard]

pfff the title of the article itself shows that the author is a moron. Ugly side of the US Republican party may be but "Republicanism" ?? Can't those journos learn a minimum of rigor ? that words have a meaning and aren't to be used because they have a nice sound or create good or bad sensations ?
Calling Republicanism a funny but tastless joke is a tastless joke and is not funny.

[Frutzel]

I laughed hard! But does that makes me racist?

[seraosha]

Remember the Bush monkey-face emails? Harhar, all good.
Try making the same monkey-face comparison with Obama...bingo, racist.

Hatchet piece, weak.

[Mackie]

Remember the Bush monkey-face emails? Harhar, all good.
Try making the same monkey-face comparison with Obama...bingo, racist.

Hatchet piece, weak.

The monkey was a traditional symbol of racism in the western world. Often used to discriminate Asians or Africans.
I guess it's a bit unfair to compare both situtation without the same background.
But there are still enough possibilities to bash Obama like Flies, telepromters, ... :)

The pic above is racism. It wasn't published by press, is not a caricature. Simply a political statement.

[RxOnco]

"You cannot go to a 7-11 unless you have a slight Indian accent."
-Senator Joe Biden

"Mahatma Gandhi ran a gas station down in St. Louis."
-Senator Hillary Clinton

[FullMetalJackass]

Hypocritical double standard of the left. Both sides partake in racism.

[FullMetalJackass]

"You cannot go to a 7-11 unless you have a slight Indian accent."
-Senator Joe Biden

"Mahatma Gandhi ran a gas station down in St. Louis."
-Senator Hillary Clinton


"African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said

[Eknytz]

The democratic party historically supported racial segregation and historically has had the support of the KKK.
In fact current democrat Robert Byrd joined the KKK in 1942.

Also the republican party was founded by abolitionists.

[brainplay]

Standard political tactic. Trying to push the Republican party as nothing but racist bible thumbers is nothing new. It cuts off alot of debate and puts them in awkward positions when trying to challenge various legislation. New Orleans is a perfect case study.

On a side note the first supposedly "racist" email sounds an awful lot like the motivational C-C-Combo Breaker posters that people were toting for a few days after the election or spamming. Kinda a double standard but hey...

[matthew.manhorn]

Remember the Bush monkey-face emails? Harhar, all good.
Try making the same monkey-face comparison with Obama...bingo, racist.

Hatchet piece, weak.

Because blacks have been insulted by "ape insults" through centuries. It's like the term "white power" itself doesn't have any derogatory meaning, but the people who chant that slogan happen to be the KKK who stained the reputation of that term. The same applies to "Sieg Heil".

[Eknytz]

Because blacks have been insulted by "ape insults" through centuries. It's like the term "white power" itself doesn't have any derogatory meaning, but the people who chant that slogan happen to be the KKK who stained the reputation of that term. The same applies to "Sieg Heil".
Still doesn't matter it's a double standard.

[LineDoggie]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6515145.ece

Yup, so they castigate an entire party over this, yet not a word over the Democrats having the ONLY Serving member of the Senate who not only was a Cross Burning Klansman, a man who helped to Terrorize Blacks, But a Kleegle & Exhalted Cyclops, and who used the word N*gger as recently as 2001. Would any European Party allow a former Gestapo member hold office?

Heres a Nugget of Byrd explaining why he wouldnt serve his country

"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
-Robert Byrd to Senator Thomas Bilbo(D-MS) in 1944

"The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia,"
-Robert Byrd 1946


I wont even continue on to Woodrow Wilson, a Rabid Racist who actually re-segregated the US Civil Service

[RxOnco]

"You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here."
-DNC Chairman Howard Dean addressing the Congressional Black Caucus

[Mr.K]

Oh no, they have a sense of humor, shame on them!! ;)

Race jokes are a form of a very questionable sense of humor. Especially in a country where slavery was present, and people didn't have the same rights because of their skin color.

[Lau]

Race jokes are a form of a very questionable sense of humor. Especially in a country where slavery was present, and people didn't have the same rights because of their skin color.

Slavery has been present in all nations one way or the other.

Racial jokes, even when they are about Negritoes, are funny. jokes about Xanthochroi, Esquimaux, Australoids and last but not least, JEWS! can also be quit hilarious! rofl

[b0sco]

http://i42.tinypic.com/n7f4.jpg

Chikkinz. Racist.

[Geezah]

Acts of Bigotry by Prominent Democrats and Leftists:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Franklin Roosevelt, the long time hero and standard bearer of the Democrat Party, headed up and implemented one of the most horrible racist policies of the 20th Century – the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. Roosevelt unilaterally and knowingly enacted Japanese Internment through the use of presidential Executive Orders 9066 and 9102 during the early years of the war. These orders single-handedly led to the imprisonment of an estimated 120,000 law abiding Americans of Japanese ancestry, the overwhelming majority of them natural born second and third generation American citizens. Countless innocents lost their property, fortunes, and, in the case of an unfortunate few, even their lives as a result of Roosevelt's internment camps, camps that have been accurately described as America's concentration camps. Perhaps most telling about the racist nature of Roosevelt's order was his clearly expressed intention to apply it almost entirely to Japanese Americans, even though America was also at war with Germany and Italy. In 1943, Roosevelt wrote regarding concerns of German and Italian Americans that they t0o would share in the fate of the interned Japanese Americans, noting that "no collective evacuation of German and Italian aliens is contemplated at this time." Despite this assertion, Roosevelt did exhibit his personal fears about Italian and German Americans, and in his typical racist form he used an ethnic stereotype to make his point. Expressing about his position on German and Italian Americans during World War II, Roosevelt stated “I don’t care so much about the Italians, they are a lot of opera singers, but the Germans are different. They may be dangerous.”

Roosevelt also appointed two notorious segregationists to the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina segregationist Democrat Jimmy Byrnes to the court. Roosevelt later made Byrnes a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname “assistant president.” Byrnes was Roosevelt’s second choice behind Harry Truman for the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also appointed segregationist Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the court. Black was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan with a notorious record of racism himself.

Hugo Black: A former Democrat Senator from Alabama and liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by FDR, Hugo Black had a lengthy history of hate group activism. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's and gained his legal fame defending Klansmen under prosecution for racial murders. In one prominent case, Black provided legal representation to Klansman Edwin Stephenson for the hate-induced murder of a Catholic priest in Birmingham. A jury composed of several Klan members acquited Stephenson of the murder, reportedly after Black expressed Klan gestures to the jury during the trial. In 1926 Black sought and won election as a Democrat to the United States Senate after campaigning heavily to Klan membership. He is said to have told one Klan audience "I desire to impress upon you as representatives of the real Anglo-Saxon sentiment that must and will control the destinies of the stars and stripes, that I want your counsel." In the Senate Black became a stauch supporter of the liberal New Deal initiatives of FDR and a solid opponent of civil rights legislation, including a filibuster of an anti-lynching measure. Black led the push for several New Deal programs and was a key participant in FDR's court packing scandal. Roosevelt appointed Black, a loyal ally, to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the Senate confirmation of Black's nomination, the issue of his strong Klan affiliations caused a public controversy over his appointment. Following the confirmation Roosevelt claimed ignorance of Black's Klan past, though this claim was dubious at best. Black's first Senate election, which occurred with Klan support, had been covered nationally a decade earlier in 1926. Black's Klan affiliations were a well known part of his political background and recieved heavy coverage in the newspapers at the time of his appointment. On the court, Black became a liberal stalwart. He also continued his career of supporting racism by authoring the opinion in favor of FDR's Japanese internment program in the infamous Korematsu ruling.

Senator Robert Byrd, D-WV: Byrd is a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and is currently the only national elected official with a history in the Klan, a well known hate group. Byrd was extremely active in the Klan and rose to the rank of “Kleagle,” an official Klan membership recruiter. Byrd once stated that he joined the Klan because it was effective in "promoting traditional American values" (Source). Byrd's choice of words speak volumes about his bigotry considering the fact that the Klan is a notorious hate group, and the racist "values" it promotes are anything but American. One of the earliest criticisms of Byrd's Klan ties came in 1952 when he was running for Congress. Byrd responded by claiming that he had left the Klan in 1943 while noting that "(d)uring the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." Byrd was lying, however, as he engaged in correspondence with a Klan Imperial Wizard long after he claims to have ended his ties with the hate group.

In a letter to the Klan leadership (Source) dated 3 years after he purported to have ended his ties with them, Byrd wrote "I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd continued his racist diatribe "It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union" and followed with a request for assistance from the hate group's leadership in "rebuilding the Klan in the realm" of West Virginia.

Byrd's racism extends far beyond his Klan membership. In a letter he wrote on the subject of desegregating the armed forces, Byrd escalated his racist rhetoric to an appalling level. In the letter, Byrd vowed that he would never fight in an integrated armed services noting "(r)ather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds" (Source).

Byrd's racist opinions have shown their ugly face in his behavior in the Senate. Byrd led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, according to the United States Senate's own website, filibustered the legislation to the bitter end appearing as one of the last opponents to the act before a coalition of civil rights proponents led by Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen invoked cloture so that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could pass. At the time, Byrd was in the the midst of a 14 hour and 13 minute filibuster diatribe against the key civil rights measure (Source). Throughout the 1960's, Byrd was was one of the staunchest opponents to civil rights in the U.S. Senate. Byrd’s racist history drew attention recently when he went on national television and repeatedly used the n-word, one of the most vicious racial slurs in existence, in an appearance on national television. Byrd uttered the slur on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow on March 5, 2001. Despite the appalling nature of the remark, it went largely ignored by the mainstream media and the self appointed "civil rights" leadership. Whereas a similar remark by anyone other than a leading Democrat Senator would assuredly prompt the likes of Jesse Jackson to assemble protest rallies demanding resignations, the Jackson crowd was eerily quiet following Byrd's remarks, issuing only low key suggestions that Byrd should avoid making such bigoted remarks.

In a sickening recognition of Byrd's appalling political career, the national Democrat party has done nothing but embrace the West Virginia senator with leadership roles and practically every honor imaginable. To this very day the Democrats call former Klansman turned U.S. Senator Robert Byrd the "conscience of the Senate." They have embraced him as their party's central pillar in all ways possible. Byrd has been reelected more times than any other Democrat senator, has served as a Democrat in Congress, a Democrat State Senator in West Virginia, and a Democrat State Delegate in West Virginia. Democrats have made repeatedly elected Byrd into their national party leadership and into the U.S. Senate leadership. He became secretary of the Senate Democrat Caucus in 1967, and Senate Democrat Whip in 1971. The Democrats elected former Klansman Byrd as their Senate Majority Leader from 1977-1980 and as their Senate Minority Leader from 1981-1986. Byrd was again elected Democrat Majority Leader from 1987-1988. Democrats made Byrd the chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee and President Pro Tempore of the Senate from 1989 until the Republicans won control of the Senate in November 1994. Following the defection of Jim Jeffords in June 2001, the Democrats again made Byrd the chairman of the Appropriations Committee and elected him to the highest ranking office in the Senate: the President Pro Tempore, a position which also put this former Klansman 4th in line for the presidency. Byrd lost his position when Republicans retook the Senate in late 2002, but continues to serve as one of the highest ranking members of the Democrat Senate leadership today.

Senator Ernest Hollings, D-SC: Hollings is liberal Democrat Senator from South Carolina who is also notorious for his use of racial slurs. He rose out of the Democrat Party's segregationist wing in the 1960's as governor of South Carolina. While in office as governor, Hollings personally led the opposition to lunch counter integration in his state. The New York Times reported on March 17, 1960 that then-governor Hollings "warned today that South Carolina would not permit 'explosive' manifestations in connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter services." According to the article, Hollings gave a speech in which he "challenged President Eisenhower's contention that minorities had the right to engage in certain types of demonstrations" against segregation. In the speech Hollings described the Republican president as "confused" and asserted that Eisenhower had done "great damage to peace and good order" by supporting the rights of minorities to protest segregation at the lunch counters.

Governor Hollings' support for segregation continued throughout his term and included his attendance at a July 23, 1961 meeting of segregationist Democrats to organize their opposition to the civil rights movement. Hollings was one of four governors in attendence, all of them Democrats. The others included rabid segregationists Orval Faubus of Arkansas and Ross Barnett of Mississippi. The New York Times reported on the meeting, noting that among the strategies discussed were using the segregationist White Citizens Council organization to mobilize political opposition to desegregation.

In more recent years Hollings, a senior Democrat senator, has made disparaging racial remarks and slurs against minorities. Senator Hollings, who was a contender for his party's presidential nomination in 1984, blamed his defeat in the primaries by using a racial slur against Hispanics. After losing the Iowa Straw Poll, Hollings stated "You had wetbacks from California that came in here for Cranston," referring to one of his opponents, Alan Cranston. A few years later Hollings reportedly used the slur "darkies" to derogatorily refer to blacks. He also once disparagingly referred to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition as the "Blackbow Coalition," and called former Senator Howard Metzenbaum, who is Jewish, "the Senator from B'nai B'rith." Hollings gained international criticism for his remarks about the African Delegation to the 1993 Geneva GATT conference, where he crudely remarked "you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." Hollings was also the Governor of South Carolina who raised the confederate flag over the state capitol in the early 1960's in what was considered at the time to be an act of defiance to civil rights. The press ignored Hollings and his role in the flag issue at the same time the political correctness police were smearing George W. Bush during his campaign after Bush correctly remarked that the flag was a state issue to be decided upon by South Carolina and not the national government.

Jesse Jackson: Jackson was the featured prime time speaker at the 2000 Democrat Convention. Jackson has a history of using anti-Semitic slurs and derogatorily calling New York City “Hymietown.” Jackson, a prominent self proclaimed "civil rights leader," is himself guilty of the same bigotry he dishonestly purports to oppose.

Dan Rather: Rather, the well known television anchor for CBS, is also a liberal Democrat who has spoken at fundraisers for the Democrat party in the past. The notoriously left wing reporter appeared on the Don Imus radio show on July 19, 2001 where he was interviewed about his long term refusal to cover the Gary Condit (D-CA) scandal involving an affair with a missing intern despite the scandal's national prominence. Rather noted on the air that CBS had basically forced him to cover the story that was on every other network and on the front page of all the major newspapers, all this after Rather avoided it for months. Rather stated on the air, refering to CBS, that "they got the Buckwheats" and made him cover the Condit scandal. The term "Buckwheat" is considered an offensive racial stereotype that stems from an easily frightened black character named "Buckwheat" on the Little Rascals comedies. It is widely regarded as a racial epithet and has long been condemned as an offensive stereotype by several civil rights organizations. In several past incidents (see here and here) the use of the epithet "Buckwheat" has recieved condemnation by the NAACP, Al Sharpton and other left wing organizations. These left wing organizations and personalities have demanded that other media personalities be fired over using the epithet, and even staged a protest at a school over the mere allegation that the racist stereotype had been used by a teacher. Yet these same liberal groups have, to date, remained completely silent now that one of their own, Dan Rather, is guilty of using the same offensive racial stereotype they have condemned elsewhere on a national radio show. It's just more proof of how the left wingers who cry the loudest with accusations of racism against others turn a blind eye when somebody of their own left wing ideology is the undeniable culprit of a blatantly racist act or statement!

Cragg Hines: Hines is one of the most rabidly partisan DC based Democrat editorial columnists to work for a major newspaper, and he makes no attempts to hide it. To Hines, pro-lifers are "neanderthals," as is often the case with those who differ in opinion with him. Ironically, Hines, a columnist who regularly touts himself as an enlightened progressive, is also known for racial remarks and religious intolerance. He attacked Senator Jesse Helms in an August 26, 2001 editorial with not only the usual liberal name calling, but also with a racial epithet. Hines used the racial slur "cracker" to attack Helms. He used the epithet not only within the article's text, but he even included it in the piece's title. In a sense of heavy irony, Hines' article accused Helms of bigotry for, among other things, opposing liberal policies like affirmative action. He didn't seem to object to himself for his own bigotted language in the same article. Hines has also drawn heavy criticism from Catholics including a letter to the editor from the former President of the U.S. Catholic Bishop's Conference for his seemingly agenda-driven criticisms of Catholicism and its religious leaders, often based on little or no historical evidence, which he has expressed in numerous editorial columns.

Al Sharpton: Sharpton, a perrenial Democrat candidate and one of the rumored candidates for the Democrat's 2004 presidential nomination, has a notorious racist past. Sharpton was a central figure who fanned the 1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob shouting anti-semetic slurs murdered an innocent Jewish man. Sharpton also incited a 1995 protest of a Jewish owned store in Harlem where protesters used several anti-semetic slurs. During the protests, a Sharpton lieutenant called the store's owner a "bloodsucker" and declared an intent to "loot the Jews." A member of the protest mob later set fire to the store, resulting in the death of seven (source).

Representative **** Gephardt, D-MO: Gephardt, the former Democrat Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke before the Metro South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization, during his early years as a congressman. Newsmax.com further reported that Gephardt had openly asked the group for an endorsement of his candidacy during one of his many visits with the organization. Gephardt has long avoided questions about his past affiliation with this group.

Andrew Cuomo: Cuomo, Bill Clinton's former Housing Secretary and a prominent Democrat political player in New York, was tape recorded using racially inflamatory rhetoric to build opposition to a potential Democrat primary opponent while speaking to a Democrat group. Cuomo stated that voting for his rival for the New York Democrat gubernatorial nomination Carl McCall, who is black, would create a "racial contract" between Black and Hispanic Democrats "and that can't happen." Upon initial reports, Cuomo denied the statement but later a tape recording surfaced. Cuomo later dropped out of the race for governor (source).

Lee P. Brown: Brown, Bill Clinton's former drug czar and Democrat mayor of Houston, engaged in racist campaigning designed to suppress Hispanic voter turnout during his 2001 reelection bid. Brown faced challenger Orlando Sanchez, a Hispanic Republican who drew heavy support from the Hispanic community during the general election. Two weeks prior to the runoff, Brown's campaign printed racist signs designed to intimidate Hispanic voters. The signs featured a photograph of Sanchez and the words "Anti-Hispanic." The signs drew harsh criticism from Hispanic leaders as their message was designed to intimidate and confuse Hispanic voters. Around the same time the signs were being used, Brown supporter and city councilman Carol Alvarado made a series of racially charged attacks on Sanchez, implying a desire to see the supression of Hispanic voter turnout in the runoff. Brown staffers also went on record claiming that Sanchez was not a true Hispanic. The racist anti-Hispanic undertones of Brown's reelection bid were so great that liberal Democrat city councilman John Castillo, himself Hispanic, retracted his endorsement of Brown in disgust and became a Sanchez supporter in the final week of the campaign. Following the harsh condemnation of the racist signs and tactics, Brown purported that his campaign was removing them even though many still lingered around Houston up until the election. When election day came along, Brown placed more of the racist signs at polling places, despite his claim to have stopped using them. The large campaign billboard style election day signs featured, in Spanish, the word "Danger!" on them followed by Sanchez's name with a large red circle and slash through it. The signs identified the Brown campaign as their owner on the bottom. Brown's racially charged reelection effort barely squeeked by Sanchez on election day, winning 51% to 49% following a series of racially motivated advertisements in which the Brown campaign appealed to the fear of black voters by invoking images of the gruesome lynching death of James Byrd, Jr. and by attempting to pit them against Hispanics. While Brown had the audacity to declare himself a mayor for all people and all ethnicities at his victory party, many in Houston fear the racial wounds inflicted by his campaign will take years to heal.

Mary Frances Berry: Berry is the Democrat chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). She purports herself to be an "independent" in her political affiliation in order to hold her job on the civil rights commission where partisan membership may not exceed 4 for either party, but is in fact a dedicated liberal Democrat who openly supported Al Gore for president and has given a total of $20,000 in personal contributions to the Democrat Party, Al Gore for President, and other Democrat candidates over the last decade. Berry is an open racist who is affiliated with the far-left Pacifica radio network, a group with ties to black nationalist causes. Berry once stated "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them," indicating that she believes the USCCR should only look out for civil rights violations against persons of certain select skin colors.

Billy McKinney: Former Democrat State Representative Billy McKinney of Georgia, who is also the father of former Democrat congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the same state. During his daughter's failed 2002 reelection bid, McKinney appeared on television where he blamed his daughter's difficulties on a Jewish conspiracy. McKinney unleashed a string of anti-semitic sentiments, stating "This is all about the Jews" and spelling out "J-E-W-S." McKinney lost his own seat in a runoff a few weeks later.

The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan: Aside from the multiple Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of 1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning.

Link (http://members.tripod.com/~GOPcapitalist/democratrecord.html)

Oh, and MLK was a Republican!

[Gleipnir]

Hmm... a very shallow piece.
Racism has nothing to do with Republicanism, but everything to do with the poor judgment of individuals.
What's funny is how everyone is jumping to prove how democrats are racists too.
Racism shouldn't be blamed on party affiliation. By either side.
It's cheap and look desperate.

[Mackie]

Link (http://members.tripod.com/%7EGOPcapitalist/democratrecord.html)

Oh, and MLK was a Republican!

Why so defensive Geezah? I thought it's only fun.

[Geezah]

Hmm... a very shallow piece.
Racism has nothing to do with Republicanism, but everything to do with the poor judgment of individuals.
What's funny is how everyone is jumping to prove how democrats are racists too.
Racism shouldn't be blamed on party affiliation. By either side.
It's cheap and look desperate.

Not at all, when you have the likes of Billiary Clinton refering to Republicans as the original plantation owners it warrants a response.
The fact that the Democrats do not call for Byrd to be thrown out or condem the actions of some of their party members says alot about who they are.
Until Obama, there had been no black member of the Democrat party that had held any position of power, this cannot be said of the Republicans.

[JKD]

Hmm... a very shallow piece.
Racism has nothing to do with Republicanism, but everything to do with the poor judgment of individuals.
What's funny is how everyone is jumping to prove how democrats are racists too.
Racism shouldn't be blamed on party affiliation. By either side.
It's cheap and look desperate.

X2. There are individual racist idiots of all political stripes.

The "See, the other side is racist too!" response is kind of funny though.

[LineDoggie]

X2. There are individual racist idiots of all political stripes.

The "See, the other side is racist too!" response is kind of funny though. Quite a Bit of difference between an idiotic e-Mail and being a Cross Burner though. Though I suppose some consider them equivalent in their minds

[JKD]

Quite a Bit of difference between an idiotic e-Mail and being a Cross Burner though. Though I suppose some consider them equivalent in their minds

I'm not at all defending Byrd. But Byrd's own racism does not make these emails any less racist.

[ronnieraygun]

Quite a Bit of difference between an idiotic e-Mail and being a Cross Burner though. Though I suppose some consider them equivalent in their minds

Yeah. Good point. It amazes me how individuals get into a position of relative authority or visibility and forget to choose their words with just a modicum of restraint. That being said, you're right. Despite the fact that some would disagree, a questionable email or comment or thought is NOT the same as an ACTION. We all know plenty of people including ourselves who say disagreeable things from time to time but we're not about to go on a pogrom.
A lot of country-fried Republicrats say stuff like this with their sense of humor tailored to their local constituent's tastes - they think that no one is listening when someone is. A lot of urban multi-culti politicos have said the same type of stuff, they think that everyone is listening when no one is. Either way, I'm probably not going to care what Billy Bob says nor will I care what Lakesha says. I'm pretty sure the watermelon card is old news and was posted on here before, btw.

[brainplay]

X2. There are individual racist idiots of all political stripes.

The "See, the other side is racist too!" response is kind of funny though.

The problem here is that your situational awareness has hit rock bottom.

"Racist idiots of all stripes" is reinforced by "see the other side is racist too". You would think that the first statement would be enough but the average dip**** here can't fathom that and requires something like Geezah's informative post to drive the point home.

Its a double standard that has to be reinforced constantly or risk losing the political firepower it can wield. Its an even more important trump card to hold onto while our inept president is still in office.

You want to see some real racism for lulz? Visit 4chan.

[Afro-European]

I've never undrestood this sh!t:More Blacks have occupied higher positions in republican administrations than in dem. ones. Yet the GOP is still seen as the "racist" party. *Sigh*.

[Gleipnir]

Yeah... by the opposition, by Democrats.

[JKD]

The problem here is that your situational awareness has hit rock bottom.
I'm well aware of the situation, champ.


"Racist idiots of all stripes" is reinforced by "see the other side is racist too". You would think that the first statement would be enough but the average dip**** here can't fathom that and requires something like Geezah's informative post to drive the point home.
I disagree. I think anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows there are racists to be found in all political parties.


Its a double standard that has to be reinforced constantly or risk losing the political firepower it can wield. Its an even more important trump card to hold onto while our inept president is still in office.

You want to see some real racism for lulz? Visit 4chan.

Ultimately I find the initial article to be at fault. Trying to pin these emails on the "ugly side Repubilcanism". But if I were still a Republican my response to this article would be something along the lines of "These fvcknuckles are a disgrace and obviously a minority within the party and don't speak for the rest of us." rather than the predictable "Hey, look at these racist Democrats!" approach.

[Xaito]

If some people get worked up over jokes that must mean there's not much real racism left for them to criticize - or maybe they have their priorities wrong.

[Geezah]

X2. There are individual racist idiots of all political stripes.

The "See, the other side is racist too!" response is kind of funny though.

It's not the "see the other side is racist too",it's the "what the hell, the Democrat party is full of hardcore bigots, why not do a piece on them. Oh, that's right, the left wing media only focus's on the Right and Republicans"!

It's a shame the Democrat party voted against the civil rights act............

[JKD]

It's not the "see the other side is racist too",it's the "what the hell, the Democrat party is full of hardcore bigots, why not do a piece on them. Oh, that's right, the left wing media only focus's on the Right and Republicans"!
Yeah, but that really just plays into the perception that the Republicans have become a bunch of whiners with a highly overdeveloped sense of victimization and think everything's unfair and everyone is always out to get 'em. Even though, granted, in this case the article is pretty darn stupid and biased. It doesn't changed the fact that these racist emails were sent. Just disown them and move on.


It's a shame the Democrat party voted against the civil rights act............

They voted in favor of it and it was signed by a Democratic president. Southern Democrats voted against it.

[seraosha]

So do you think President Obama being black means that the political cartoons will have to depict him in a different manner than our previous presidents have been portrayed? No monkey jokes, or stereotypes, or anything that could be remotely construed as being intolerant, out of fear of being labeled a racist?

Am I the only one that sees this as hideously unbalanced?

[deagle]

thats appallingly disgraceful.

[click]

So do you think President Obama being black means that the political cartoons will have to depict him in a different manner than our previous presidents have been portrayed? No monkey jokes, or stereotypes, or anything that could be remotely construed as being intolerant, out of fear of being labeled a racist?

Am I the only one that sees this as hideously unbalanced?

I get where you're coming from, and totally agree.

[ronnieraygun]

So do you think President Obama being black means that the political cartoons will have to depict him in a different manner than our previous presidents have been portrayed? No monkey jokes, or stereotypes, or anything that could be remotely construed as being intolerant, out of fear of being labeled a racist?



Why, yes. Corporatizing the media means sanitizing all opinion so that nothing is offensive to anyone. Racism is the be-all, end-all of accusations in American public discourse for some time now. Mainstream media avoids anything resembling it to a fault, and if you're not mainstream media, you're a lunatic or Midwesterner, or both.

p-)

[SoftLion]

"....ugly side of Republicanism"

Give me a ****ing break - way to piss away your credibility before I can even get to the "content"

[WKD]

The monkey was a traditional symbol of racism in the western world. Often used to discriminate Asians or Africans.
I guess it's a bit unfair to compare both situtation without the same background.
But there are still enough possibilities to bash Obama like Flies, telepromters, ... :)

The pic above is racism. It wasn't published by press, is not a caricature. Simply a political statement.

The pic above was created by a bunch of internet malcontents; the first time I saw it was on 4chan. The established press does not have a monopoly on caricature nor satire. And if a Republican in public office was dumb enough to get caught posting it around, well that's the kind of comedy you just can't buy.

[Fargin]

No big deal.

I don't mind a few edgy jokes among good friends, but ffs don't sign your name and forward them in e-mails and act all butthurt, when it takes on a life of it's own and eventually is forwarded to someone, who spots an oppotunity to make you appologize in public.

[XShipRider]

Never put anything in e-mail you don't want to land on the boss's, or in this case - media's, desk.

[IMTT]

I guess this it the biggest MOST HORRIBLE crisis of the day to draw attention away from real issues. Palin, Kennedy, McCain, Bush, Frank, this idiot that moron, swine flu, GUNS IN mEXICO yad yad yad. How about focus on the economy, national security, individuals rights and a list of important issues. WHO CARES! Cry me a river and make me believe this really matters. The clock is ticking get to work on real issues instead of Gitmo, a list of cr-p 6 feet deep, gay marrage and abortion. Shut up and get to work there are bad people out there from both parties, every party and the club down the street that will say and do bad things. Grow up and get back to work, stop being a victim. "CHANGE" lets see what you got!

[Marshall]

Obsessively interested in politics despite not being old enough vote, letsroll9115sfg was an active member of intellectually stimulating militarypictures dot com forum. He abruptly stopped writing his 800 word annotated retort to a user who seemed to be implying that ACU was "good enough" (when anyone worth their salt knows that the Crye Multicam is a far superior camouflage uniform) when a fellow forum member, possibly a Michelle Malkin fan, alerted him to a newspaper article that featured the utterly preposterous notion that members of the Republican party might be racist.

What a typically cheap and partisan attack typical of those crypto-socialist Democrats, letsroll9115sfg thought to himself. If he didn't reply to such blatant MSM trolling, what would stand between Obama and his ilk selling out the greatest country on Earth to the terrorists and the commies? No, not today. The terrorists and the communists would have to take his mother's Chevy Suburban and his bedroom full of Walmart wares from his cold, dead, Cheeto stained fingers.

With the guile of an HK-416 equipped Special Forces soldier carrying out counter-insurgency warfare and the analytical acumen of an MQ-9 sensor suite operator, he began to construct his argument. Such assertions of racism present in modern day Republicans, he reasoned, was merely a petty partisan position that underlined the liberal media's disdain for his personal beliefs. He began to write, sounding out the words in his head as he did so. 'To say that someone is racist because of their party affiliation, is of course nonsense.'

Concise, to the point and entirely consistent from an ideological level. He marveled at his nearly finished work before adding the pièce de résistance to his near-effortless retort to yet more liberal nonsense: 'Furthermore, DEMICRATS R RACEIST 2!'

Perfect. Like a well trained fencer parrying the blows of an amateur sword swinger, letsroll9115sfg had found gaps in this argument large enough to park a TUSK upgraded M1A2 in. With that affront to his honour settled, he could get back to the business of the day: Debating what equipment was to appear in Modern Warfare 2 and doing his best to ignore that disquieting, unintelligible feeling that seemed to rise from within him whenever he looked at those photos of taut, lean BUD/s candidates doing squat thrusts.

Unf.

[Geezah]

Yeah, but that really just plays into the perception that the Republicans have become a bunch of whiners with a highly overdeveloped sense of victimization and think everything's unfair and everyone is always out to get 'em. Even though, granted, in this case the article is pretty darn stupid and biased. It doesn't changed the fact that these racist emails were sent. Just disown them and move on.

Jokes I don't mind but when it is blatant rascism on the part of the Democrats and they get a pass from the media(and in some cases those same members of the media part take) it gets a little old.

Face it, the Democrats have never left their base which has a large rascist following.



They voted in favor of it and it was signed by a Democratic president. Southern Democrats voted against it.


Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Movement:

A little known fact of history involves the heavy opposition to the civil rights movement by several prominent Democrats. Similar historical neglect is given to the important role Republicans played in supporting the civil rights movement. A calculation of 26 major civil rights votes from 1933 through the 1960's civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked by the left wing Democrats for obvious reasons. In some cases, the Democrats have told flat out lies about their shameful record during the civil rights movement.

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

Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Act was substantial enough to literally split the party in two. A whopping 40% of the House Democrats VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it. Republican support in the Senate was even higher. Similar trends occurred with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was supported by 82% of House Republicans and 94% of Senate Republicans. The same Democrat standard bearers took their normal racists stances, this time with Senator Fulbright leading the opposition effort.

It took the hard work of Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Republican Whip Thomas Kuchel to pass the Civil Rights Act (Dirksen was presented a civil rights accomplishment award for the year by the head of the NAACP in recognition of his efforts). Upon breaking the Democrat filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republican Dirksen took to the Senate floor and exclaimed "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!" Sadly, Democrats and revisionist historians have all but forgotten (and intentionally so) that it was Republican Dirksen, not the divided Democrats, who made the Civil Rights Act a reality. Dirksen also broke the Democrat filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act that was signed by Republican President Eisenhower.

Outside of Congress, the three most notorious opponents of school integration were all Democrats:
- Orval Faubus, Democrat Governor of Arkansas and one of Bill Clinton's political heroes
- George Wallace, Democrat Governor of Alabama
- Lester Maddox, Democrat Governor of Georgia

The most famous of the school desegregation standoffs involved Governor Faubus. Democrat Faubus used police and state forces to block the integration of a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The standoff was settled and the school was integrated only after the intervention of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Even the Democrat Party organization resisted integration and refused to allow minority participation for decades. Exclusion of minorities was the general rule of the Democrat Party of many states for decades, especially in Texas. This racist policy reached its peak under the New Deal in the southern and western states, often known as the New Deal Coalition region of FDR. The Supreme Court in Nixon v. Herndon declared the practice of "white primaries" unconstitutional in 1927 after states had passed laws barring Blacks from participating in Democrat primaries. But the Democrat Parties did not yield to the Court’s order. After Nixon v. Herndon, Democrats simply made rules within the party's individual executive committees to bar minorities from participating, which were struck down in Nixon v. Condon in 1932. The Democrats, in typical racist fashion, responded by using state parties to pass rules barring blacks from participation. This decision was upheld in Grovey v. Townsend, which was not overturned until 1944 by Smith v. Allwright. The Texas Democrats responded with their usual ploys and turned to what was known as the "Jaybird system" which used private Democrat clubs to hold white-only votes on a slate of candidates, which were then transferred to the Democrat party itself and put on their primary ballot as the only choices. Terry v. Adams overturned the Jaybird system, prompting the Democrats to institute blocks of unit rule voting procedures as well as the infamous literacy tests and other Jim Crow regulations to specifically block minorities from participating in their primaries. In the end, it took 4 direct Supreme Court orders to end the Democrat's "white primary" system, and after that it took countless additional orders, several acts of Congress, and a constitutional amendment to tear down the Jim Crow codes that preserved the Democrat's white primary for decades beyond the final Supreme Court order ruling it officially unconstitutional.

Hispanics in South Texas were treated especially poorly by the Democrat Party, which relied heavily on a system of political bosses to coerce and intimidate Hispanics into voting for Democrat primary candidates of choice. Though coercion is illegal, this system, known as the Patron system, is still in use to this day by local Democrat parties in some heavy Hispanic communities of the southwest.

Link (http://members.tripod.com/~GOPcapitalist/democratrecord.html)

[JKD]

Jokes I don't mind but when it is blatant rascism on the part of the Democrats and they get a pass from the media(and in some cases those same members of the media part take) it gets a little old.

Face it, the Democrats have never left their base which has a large rascist following.
What do you base that on? Who in their base do you see as racist?




Link (http://members.tripod.com/~GOPcapitalist/democratrecord.html)


Originally Posted by Geezah
It's a shame the Democrat party voted against the civil rights act
If you want to change that from "the Democratic party voted..." to "a minority of the Democratic party voted...", I'll agree with you. Hell, it looks like they got more Southern votes than the GOP.

Vote totals

Totals are in "Yea-Nay" format:

The original House version: 290-130 (69%-31%)
The Senate version: 73-27 (73%-27%)
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289-126 (70%-30%)

By party

The original House version:[9]
Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)

The Senate version:[9]
Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[9]
Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)

By party and region

Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.

The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%)
Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)
Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%)
Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%)

The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%) (only Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%) (this was Senator John Tower of Texas)
Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%) (only Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia opposed the measure)
Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%) (Senators Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Edwin L. Mechem of New Mexico, Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming, and Norris H. Cotton of New Hampshire opposed the measure)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

[Geezah]

Upon breaking the Democrat filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republican Dirksen took to the Senate floor and exclaimed "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!" Sadly, Democrats and revisionist historians have all but forgotten (and intentionally so) that it was Republican Dirksen, not the divided Democrats, who made the Civil Rights Act a reality. Dirksen also broke the Democrat filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act that was signed by Republican President Eisenhower.

..................

[JKD]

Look at the vote, dude. Look at the numbers.

Again, if you want to change your statement to "a minority of the Democratic party voted...", I'll agree with you.

[LineDoggie]

Some seem to have forgotton with all this monkey caricture talk that besides President Bush being likened to one, the Irish were regularly depicted as apes in Media throughout the USA from the 1800's and up to WWI.

[Marshall]

Some seem to have forgotton with all this monkey caricture talk that besides President Bush being likened to one, the Irish were regularly depicted as apes in Media throughout the USA from the 1800's and up to WWI.

I think you're right. Connotations associated with words, symbols and depictions never change over time.

[Geezah]

Look at the vote, dude. Look at the numbers.


A calculation of 26 major civil rights votes from 1933 through the 1960's civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked by the left wing Democrats for obvious reasons. In some cases, the Democrats have told flat out lies about their shameful record during the civil rights movement.

I have and I know which party favours civil rights!

[Hollis]

I have and I know which party favours civil rights!


That was because of the good ole Dixiecrats. 70's seem to shift all of that.

[JKD]

I have and I know which party favours civil rights!

So you stand by this statement:


Originally Posted by Geezah
It's a shame the Democrat party voted against the civil rights act............

even after I posted this?


Totals are in "Yea-Nay" format:
...

The original House version:[9]
Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)

The Senate version:[9]
Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[9]
Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)

Now while I'll admit math has never been my strongest point, it sure looks like more Dems voted for it than against it

[Geezah]

Now while I'll admit math has never been my strongest point, it sure looks like more Dems voted for it than against it



A calculation of 26 major civil rights votes from 1933 through the 1960's civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked by the left wing Democrats for obvious reasons. In some cases, the Democrats have told flat out lies about their shameful record during the civil rights movement.

..................

[Hot Lips]

The thing I find most troubling about these threads is time spent attempting to justify racism. "They said it, so I can too" rather than seeking to take the high road and not do it.

I think most of us have had our less than stellar moments in life, myself included. It's not about political parties, but what kind of person you are.

In the end no one is really comparing the left to the right, but racism to racism.

[JKD]

It's a shame the Democrat party voted against the civil rights act............

The Civil Rights Act. You didn't say "26 major civil rights votes". You wrote The Civil Rights Act. And I provided the numbers that proved that statement to be false.

Which part of your own statement are you unable to understand?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64text.htm

[Geezah]

The Civil Rights Act. You didn't say "26 major civil rights votes". You wrote The Civil Rights Act. And I provided the numbers that proved that statement to be false.

The Democrats organized a filibuster but it was shot down for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As a minority(as you put it) of racist Democrats, were the majority of the time unable to reign in their own party members?

No matter what, the Democrats have a less than stellar record concerning rights for minorities.

[California Joe]

Whatever you guys all have to tell yourselves to justify your opinions is OK with me, but for f*ckssakes try to step back once in awhile and look in the mirror. Sure the article is lame but quoting sh*t from 1944?