NAACP demands DOJ, Secret Service investigate rodeo clown/Obama incident

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Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The sad thing is, the current Republican Party totally embraces racism and racists. If you say you are a conservative/republican, people think you are a racist. Also, if you are a racist, the conservative/republican party openly welcomes you.
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Hi Harry. Could you give us your source?

Seriously? It is amazing how many people are not familiar with what is fairly recent history.

Okay, folks, for the "Democrats were members of the KKK and are the real racists" crowd, here is a brief outline of the facts (off the top of my head, so forgive any errors).

After the Civil War, northern carpetbaggers who were largely Republican (remember who was the ruling part of the time) went to the South and achieved political authority. In reaction to this, southern whites largely became Democrats. Many, if not most of those whites were racist and proceeded to make life difficult -- particularly where voting was concerned -- for southern blacks.

Post World War II, there were a number of efforts to end racial discrimination such as desegregating the military and ending poll taxes. These efforts were primarily led by Democrats and supported by moderate Republicans. In reaction, white southern Democrats began leaving the Party. The best example of this was Strom Thurmond, who established the Dixiecrat Party and ran for President.

As the civil rights movement grew, both parties were split between supporters and opponents of the movement. White southern Democrats either evolved in their views to become either supportive or at least tolerant of the civil rights movement, or left the Party. For example, Robert Byrd joined in a filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but voted in favor of the the Civli Rights Act of 1968. In contrast, the aforementioned Strom Thurmond conducted the longest filibuster in history in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and then left the Democratic Party after passage of the 1964 act to become a Republican.

Prior to the civil rights movement, the Democratic Party had become so pervasive among white southerners and after 1964 the migration of white southerners to the Republican Party so common, it is hard to find any southern Republican from the late 60s until recently who hadn't been a Democrat previously. In addition to Thurmond, Jesse Helms had once been a Democrat. Even the sainted Ronald Reagan had originally been a Democrat. These guys like to say that they didn't change, the Democratic Party changed. What they don't say is that what changed was the Party's position on civil rights.

Republicans attempted to capitalize on the disaffection with the Democratic Party's stance on civil rights among white southerners. Nixon pursued the "southern strategy" which has now become the foundation of Republican politics. As much as some Republicans would like to wish otherwise, there is no separating race from this strategy. You see today in southern efforts to gerrymander minorities, implement hurdles to voting, and take other steps to mitigate minority political power.

The result of the above is that today, Republicans trying to burnish their "anti-racist" credentials have to point to dead white men such as Abraham Lincoln and Robert Byrd. Democrats need only point to Rand Paul who quite recently said that he would have voted against the civil right act or a host of southern governors who are currently signing bills aimed at reducing voting among minorities.

Enjoy:

http://www.everythingiknowiswrong.com/2005/02/history_of_the_.html

"Many, perhaps even most, ordinary Democrats and Republicans have no idea of the relative histories of their parties. They know only what has been fed to them by a media intent on showing Democrats in only the best light, and by a school system even more biased.

Democrats believe that their party has always been the "party of civil rights"; that theirs was the side that fought against slavery, and for equal rights, citizenship, and the right of blacks to vote, even women's suffrage. In fact, they have been on the wrong side of every single one of these civil rights issues, and more--much more."

Any idiot knows that the racists fled to the Republican Party where they were welcomed as part of the Southern Strategy. You know, the only thing that keeps the Republucan Party alive today. Your source picks a very apt name for his website.

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So what you're saying is the Republican party is full of racists?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what you're saying is the Republican party is full of racists?

Not full, but let's face it the GOP is the party where most of them end up, unless they are Neo Nazis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
So what you're saying is the Republican party is full of racists?


Not full, but let's face it the GOP is the party where most of them end up, unless they are Neo Nazis.

That is interesting. I come from a long line of Democrats and I am the only one who is not a racist.

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---and I am a Republican.

[Anonymous]

Your anecdote does not disprove the statistical reality. This has been studied and posted to DCUM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So what you're saying is the Republican party is full of racists?

Not full, but let's face it the GOP is the party where most of them end up, unless they are Neo Nazis.

Define racist. I think that's where the problems lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So what you're saying is the Republican party is full of racists?


Not full, but let's face it the GOP is the party where most of them end up, unless they are Neo Nazis.

That is interesting. I come from a long line of Democrats and I am the only one who is not a racist.

The liberal way of defining racist is essentially not supporting everything done by non-white people. Take voter ID. It makes perfect sense for people to have to present an ID to be able to vote, showing they are indeed eligible to vote. By setting that parameter, Republicans are considered racist because we don't want "brown people" to vote. We're fine with brown people voting who are eligible to vote, but aren't fine with brown people who are ineligible to vote. Apply that same statement to white people, black people, etc. etc. You're either legally eligible or you are not, and voter ID is a great way of proving that you are.

Logic matters not when you are called a racist. The very use of the term is designed to try and intimidate and influence, which is why it's used so frequently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So what you're saying is the Republican party is full of racists?


Not full, but let's face it the GOP is the party where most of them end up, unless they are Neo Nazis.

That is interesting. I come from a long line of Democrats and I am the only one who is not a racist.

The liberal way of defining racist is essentially not supporting everything done by non-white people. Take voter ID. It makes perfect sense for people to have to present an ID to be able to vote, showing they are indeed eligible to vote. By setting that parameter, Republicans are considered racist because we don't want "brown people" to vote. We're fine with brown people voting who are eligible to vote, but aren't fine with brown people who are ineligible to vote. Apply that same statement to white people, black people, etc. etc. You're either legally eligible or you are not, and voter ID is a great way of proving that you are.

Logic matters not when you are called a racist. The very use of the term is designed to try and intimidate and influence, which is why it's used so frequently.

The problem is that your own people told us this. So we don't have to pretend that there could be 100 reasons and liberals jumped to the wrong conclusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So what you're saying is the Republican party is full of racists?


Not full, but let's face it the GOP is the party where most of them end up, unless they are Neo Nazis.

That is interesting. I come from a long line of Democrats and I am the only one who is not a racist.

The liberal way of defining racist is essentially not supporting everything done by non-white people. Take voter ID. It makes perfect sense for people to have to present an ID to be able to vote, showing they are indeed eligible to vote. By setting that parameter, Republicans are considered racist because we don't want "brown people" to vote. We're fine with brown people voting who are eligible to vote, but aren't fine with brown people who are ineligible to vote. Apply that same statement to white people, black people, etc. etc. You're either legally eligible or you are not, and voter ID is a great way of proving that you are.

Logic matters not when you are called a racist. The very use of the term is designed to try and intimidate and influence, which is why it's used so frequently.

The problem is that your own people told us this. So we don't have to pretend that there could be 100 reasons and liberals jumped to the wrong conclusion.

Show me where a prominent republican politician said they want to take the vote away from all non-whites, legal citizens or not. Please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So what you're saying is the Republican party is full of racists?


Not full, but let's face it the GOP is the party where most of them end up, unless they are Neo Nazis.

That is interesting. I come from a long line of Democrats and I am the only one who is not a racist.

The liberal way of defining racist is essentially not supporting everything done by non-white people. Take voter ID. It makes perfect sense for people to have to present an ID to be able to vote, showing they are indeed eligible to vote. By setting that parameter, Republicans are considered racist because we don't want "brown people" to vote. We're fine with brown people voting who are eligible to vote, but aren't fine with brown people who are ineligible to vote. Apply that same statement to white people, black people, etc. etc. You're either legally eligible or you are not, and voter ID is a great way of proving that you are.

Logic matters not when you are called a racist. The very use of the term is designed to try and intimidate and influence, which is why it's used so frequently.

The problem is that your own people told us this. So we don't have to pretend that there could be 100 reasons and liberals jumped to the wrong conclusion.

Show me where a prominent republican politician said they want to take the vote away from all non-whites, legal citizens or not. Please.

Ok Florida GOP Chair should be good enough.


http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/early-voting-curbs-called-power-play/nTFDy/

[Anonymous]

Those two Republicans are hardly authoritative sources. Christ is mad at the Republicans because Rubio beat him for the nomination. The other guy is a crook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those two Republicans are hardly authoritative sources. Christ is mad at the Republicans because Rubio beat him for the nomination. The other guy is a crook.

The fact that your party leaders are crooks is an odd defense. Usually when crooks admit crimes , we believe them.

Ok next up Bob Ehrlichs campaign manager. Actual conviction.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-12-06/local/35287901_1_robocall-case-julius-henson-davitt

[Anonymous]

Gee, thought there wasn't any voter fraud.........

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gee, thought there wasn't any voter fraud.........

ehrlichs campaign head is guilty of voter suppression.

But it's interesting your responses: do far I can't believe the Florida GOP head because he's a crook, and the fact that the MD governors campaign is convicted of vote suppression merely validates conservative belief in voter fraud.

Is there anything which would ever cause you to admit that there is a problem in the GOP?

Because it appears tgat neither confessions, convictions, or the startling inability to attract the black vote actually prove anything to you. Does Jesus need to come down from the clouds and etch it on a slab of granite? And if he did would you tell me he is a closet Muslim?