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Maybe, until 1964. After that it's been R=Racist nonstop.
oh you are saying that after they voted in the civil rights law, they turned racist?.. that is funny, if that was the case, why would they of bothered in the first place?
And even if that was so, the dems have equaled racist from the beginning of the party, until present day.
oh you are saying that after they voted in the civil rights law, they turned racist?.. that is funny, if that was the case, why would they of bothered in the first place?
And even if that was so, the dems have equaled racist from the beginning of the party, until present day.
Uh, no. What would happen if you opened a history book? Would you see the right wing hater-fantasy bubble for the miserable trap that it is, and escape?
Uh, no. What would happen if you opened a history book?
You'd see that the Democrat supported unions have historically and still currently discriminate against blacks.
That's one reason why conservatives like Charleston Heston were marching in Selma with blacks. Some of the best actors, actresses, script-writers, make-up artists, set designers, electricians, camera operators, wardrobe designers and others were blacks, but they couldn't work, because they weren't allowed in the union.
You'd see that the Democrat supported unions have historically and still currently discriminate against blacks.
That's one reason why conservatives like Charleston Heston were marching in Selma with blacks. Some of the best actors, actresses, script-writers, make-up artists, set designers, electricians, camera operators, wardrobe designers and others were blacks, but they couldn't work, because they weren't allowed in the union.
Personal merit means nothing to liberals.
Charleston Heston, I've been there.
I dont know, Mircea, I think you've got the wrong Charleston. The one who joined Brando's group at Selma -- oops, he couldnt quite make it there on that particular date actually -- appears to have campaigned for Adlai Stevenson and then Kennedy.
[Charleston] went on, famously, to participate in the 1963 March on Washington, after Martin Luther King, Jr., persuaded Hollywood craft guilds to open their ranks to black workers. In response, a committee calling itself the Arts Group was formed at Brando’s home. Heston, who referred to King as “a 20th Century Moses for his people,” was elected its chair.
The original group numbered only 10 artists, including Heston, Brando, Curtis, Lancaster and Mel Ferrer, but quickly attracted such leading actors as Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Debbie Reynolds, Sidney Poitier, Kirk Douglas and Judy Garland.
The Washington event would be Heston’s last civil rights march, although he considered joining King for the culmination of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965, but was prevented by schedule constraints. The actor would for the rest of his life claim a role in the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
From that also we learn,
In 1960, Heston filled a vacancy in the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) leadership and moved up the ranks to its presidency in 1965, maintaining the conservative inner circle that had developed under the leadership of former SAG chief Ronald Reagan.
1965, the year he was marching at Selma? Not?
What to make of this?
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(It's nice to know Charlton Heston was pro-integration, though. I dont think he was ever suspected of being a racist.)
According to pp. 74-76 at the [http://books.google.com/books?id=1tu...alse]biography of Heston[/url] linked above, blacks themselves were working very hard to get those craft unions integrated, and Heston was hesitant to do much on his own that might ruffle waters.
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If I'm wrong, please enlighten me, but....
