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Ya, Senator Byrd, Grand Dragon of the KKK... Racist to the bone.
Senator Byrd is left or right wing? I thought so!
You do know, MLK was a staunch Republican. JFK made a deal with MLK, to gain the black vote and only to gain the black voters. You have to ask, why was MLK and his father, both Republicans?
The civil right bill was composed by a majority of Republicans with Democrats apposing it.
For God's sake, you've been told many places in these message boards, if nowhere else, that the Dixiecrats swarmed like the rats they were to the Republican party in 1964 where they were welcomed with open arms and they and their descendants have never left. Read a history book or whatever you have to do to make this fact stick in your mind.
Oh, so it's a bad thing for small businesses and a good thing for big businesses.
You need to fleshout that argument.
You took my post out of context, I made no argument, I only stated facts - Dennys and the Waffle House are not small businesses. The context of the post you were responding to was referring to small businesses. There seems to be a theme developing, where you take post out of context.
IF a business chooses to discriminate in this day and age based upon race it would fail...it does not require the control of the central government to force it to happen.
Out of one side of your mouth you ask what does evidence of large and successful businesses engaging in a pattern of discrimination prove and then out of the other side of your mouth try to argue that such a pattern of discrimination would keep the same successful businesses from succeeding.
After watching a video of the Maddow interview, I think he did. Paul was trying to make a distinction between public and private businesses. A grocery store or a Woolworth lunch counter are public places, and cannot discriminate. Where as a private club, after all the civil rights bills, can still discriminate over who they admit as their members. Rachel never grasped the nuance between private and public businesses.
What is this "public businesses" thing you keep bleating on about?
He didn't say that businesses open to the public should not be allowed to discriminate, and that the law should prevent them from doing so.
He did spend a lot of time yammering about "institutional racism", although I would bet that he doesn't know what that really means. It was clear from his comments, though, that the distinction he makes is between governmental and non-governmental entities.
He claims that he supports the proposition that governmental bodies should not be allowed to discriminate. Taking him at his word for that, that still leaves the entire private sector that would, in his view of the world, be free to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, disability, and apparently every other characteristic that is now prohibited.
It has nothing to do with small or large businesses or anything else. He just doesn't think the law should stop a private business, whether it's my lemonade stand in my front yard or General Motors, from discriminating.
You took my post out of context, I made no argument, I only stated facts - Dennys and the Waffle House are not small businesses. The context of the post you were responding to was referring to small businesses. There seems to be a theme developing, where you take post out of context.
Okay, what's your opinion of big businesses discriminating?
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