Ravenwood - 03/15/05 07:45 AM
The GOP is finally starting to make inroads with black voters. But the core of the problem is perhaps one of the biggest shams in American politics.
"Republicans . . . are a group who opposed the civil rights movement and who African-Americans trust least," says David Bositis, political analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic StudiesActually, it was Republicans who pushed through the civil rights act. It was the party of Lincoln who supposedly "freed the slaves". Yet in today's society, most people seem to think that it was Democrats. Democrats are the party that filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They are the party of Robert 'KKK' Byrd, and George Wallace standing in the school house door. In fact, the Daschle/Reid Democrats continue to stand in the school house door by blocking the nominations of prominent minority judges like Janice Rogers-Brown and Miguel Estrada.
Call it the curse of Barry Goldwater.
Comments
Weird. That comment, the one you quoted, seems to be oddly slapped into the article at a random point. No comment of its error either. Very strange.
Posted by: Publius II at March 15, 2005 10:34 AMDon't forget one more famous racist Democrat - Al Gore - who famously voted against the civil rights act and opposed school segregation while his son lived in the Ritz and attended posh, elitist, private schools.
Posted by: countertop at March 15, 2005 3:50 PMOh yeah.. and Howard Dean with his "hotel staff" comments.
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