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"I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income." - Martin Luther King, Jr., Republican
What the OP fails to realize is that the tables turned way back in the middle of the last century:
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Southern Democrats were extremely racist. At the same time, Northern “liberal” Democrats and Republicans had already been working together to end discrimination and pushed for ending segregation.
See, in 1948, President Harry Truman made one of the boldest public moves by a Democrat towards Civil Rights for African Americans by creating the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, and ending discrimination in the military. At the Democratic National Convention in 1948 a call was made for civil rights—prompting at least 35 Southern delegates to walk out.
-- Allen Clifton
And Democrats didn't look back becoming the party of anti-racism, while the Republicans went from the party of racial progress to the party of racists, religious reactionaries, and egoistic greed-mongers.
Guess which of the two major parties these guys favor more often?
Good to see you found this....though what have Republicans done recently? I am sure is should be easy to find a modern day civil rights leader in the Republican party.
It's not a "deflection" to point out that of the 43 African-Americans currently serving in the House of Representatives, 43 are Democrats.
Unless, that is, you think history ended in 1964. You know, the year just prior to the one in which a Democratic President fought for, and won, the Civil Rights Act.
What the OP fails to realize is that the tables turned way back in the middle of the last century:
And Democrats didn't look back becoming the party of anti-racism, while the Republicans went from the party of racial progress to the party of racists, religious reactionaries, and egoistic greed-mongers.
Guess which of the two major parties these guys favor more often?
Oh, they know it. They just like to ignore it when it suits their purpose. Like now, for example, when their atrocious, racist posts about a dead black teenager are making their true character come through.
"I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income." - Martin Luther King, Jr., Republican
"It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
Just shows how facts and pictures can be manipulated. If the Republican party wants to return to the ideals of Dr. King Jr. I'm all for it. The current Republican party would be throwing King out of the party.
I am convinced that if we are to get on to the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin [applause], we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see than an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. [applause]
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, “This is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, “This is not just.” The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. [sustained applause]
It's not a "deflection" to point out that of the 43 African-Americans currently serving in the House of Representatives, 43 are Democrats.
Unless, that is, you think history ended in 1964. You know, the year just prior to the one in which a Democratic President fought for, and won, the Civil Rights Act.
true, but also note that the SAME president in 1964 that pushed for the civil rights act, was also the SAME person that as a senator in 1957 gutted the very same civil rights act that eisenhower, a republican, was pushing. had johnson not gutted the 1957 civil rights act, there would have been no need for the 1964 civil rights act. and the irony is that is was done FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES ONLY, not because johnson was some kind of civil rights hero, he in fact was a racist.
Well, it's nice that you put a progressive liberal of his time up there in Lincoln - good for you! I guess you aren't part of a Fox News flock?
Where is the picture of David Duke? Wait, here you go...
How do Repubicans vote on Affirmative Action? How does the KKK vote? Democrat? HAHA!
Do minorites in the US vote Republican? Why not?
How many minorites in Congress are R vs. D?
I think this post must have been put here to be funny...Bravo on an awesome string!
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