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Wednesday, July 09, 2003Try to RememberThe old song is running through my head, after reading this on Greg Hlatky's Borzoi Blog. Really, apart from his 24 hour and 18 minute filbuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act, Thurmond's biggest mistake was his apostasy in becoming a Republican in 1964. Had he remained a Democrat he might have benefited from the historical amnesia with respect to their dismal civil rights records that venerated Southern Democrats enjoy. Revered Foreign Relations chairman and Vietnam skeptic J. William Fulbright was a firm segregationist as was Watergate icon Sam Ervin. Current Lefty darling Robert Byrd was a KKK member. Claude Pepper participated in the filibuster of the 1938 anti-lynching act. In campaigns for his House seat, Sam Rayburn spoke out against equal treatment for blacks. Lyndon Johnson's maiden speech to the Senate was in opposition to a civil rights bill.From here And the black leadership just keeps buying in to the Democratic BS, probably because the phrase "Democratic BS" actually stands for "Democratic Buying Slaves". And that's the way I see it. -- posted by Chuck at Wednesday, July 09, 2003 | E-mail | Permalink | Main | 0 comments
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