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Why is it the Republicans support school vouchers while the Dems do not ?
Let parents obtain vouchers because with the vouchers comes CHOICE which is currently lacking in K-12 public education.
Why is it the Republicans support school vouchers while the Dems do not ?
Let parents obtain vouchers because with the vouchers comes CHOICE which is currently lacking in K-12 public education.
Lots of democrats do, however, elected democrats don't want to anger the teacher unions.
Think carefully about why alot of Blacks do not trust the Republican Party. I've asked you to think about that.
I honestly don't know.
I'm also quite confused about why Blacks so overwhelmingly support a president (Obama) who immediately ended the Washington, D.C. school voucher scholarship program, TRAPPING less fortunate Black children in the abysmally performing D.C. public schools, while sending his own two daughters to a pricey elite private school.
Apparently, Obama doesn't want people to know he's joining in the educational oppression. He sent Attorney General Eric Holder to tell the school voucher advocate group to pull the ad.
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Former D.C. Councilmember Kevin Chavous of D.C. Children First said October 16 that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder had recently approached him and told him to kill the ad.
I honestly don't know. It was the Republicans who supported Civil Rights while the Southern Democrats were in opposition. MLK Jr. was a Republican. Why Martin Luther King Was Republican
And why should those elite schools only be for the children of the rich? The Republicans support vouchers and greater access to those schools for all.
According to Dr. King's son, there is no evidence that Dr. King ever endorsed any Presidential candidate and there is no evidence that he voted Republican. Most members of Dr. King's family would disagree with you.
And something else. It was Lyndon B. Johnson who passed the Civil Rights Act, not Barry Goldwater. Barry Goldwater was against it. People pay much more attention to the President, not Congress.
According to Dr. King's son, there is no evidence that Dr. King ever endorsed any Presidential candidate and there is no evidence that he voted Republican. Most members of Dr. King's family would disagree with you.
And something else. It was Lyndon B. Johnson who passed the Civil Rights Act
Yes, that's what the article said. Did you not read it?
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Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans.
Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation.
Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King’s protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as “that ****** preacher.â€
...Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican.
Democrats rear their racist, oppressive heads yet again.
And something else. It was Lyndon B. Johnson who passed the Civil Rights Act, not Barry Goldwater. Barry Goldwater was against it. People pay much more attention to the President, not Congress.
No he didn't - he signed a bill that Congress passed.
Asa Philip Randolph, famous Black Republican, organized two major marches on Washington, D.C. in 1941 and 1963, which resulted in important advances in black civil rights. The 1963 march made Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into a national figure. Black Republican History | National Black Republican Association
Yes, that's what the article said. Did you not read it?
Democrats rear their racist, oppressive heads yet again.
Goldwater was against it as well, and he was a Republican. Johnson might have said some bad things, but he wasn't any better than Goldwater, and it was Johnson who was for the Civil Rights Act, not Goldwater. It was the Republican Party that started the Southern Strategy.
And you do know that Alveda King was basically discredited by the rest of her family.
And Barry Goldwater was against it. People pay more attention to the President than Congress.
I don't care about how Senator Goldwater voted on the bill - I was only correcting you when you claimed that President Johnson passed the act.
The only thing that he likely passed that day was some gas - unless he threw a football around on the White House lawn.
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