Quoted: Lyndon B Johnson was a democrat, his name is on the civil rights act, his senate was democrat controlled. Yeah looks like a republican signed it to me too. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/lj36.html
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Dearest
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Only 69 percent of Democratic Senators voted for the Act, but 82 percent of Republican Senators votd for it.
It gets better in the House, with a lowly 61 percent of Dems voting for the Act and 80 percent of the Republicans voting for it.
Al Gore's father was one of those who refused to support the Act that enforced the constitutional rights of blacks.
Democrat Bull Connor used dogs, clubs and hoses to violate black rights.
Do we need to discuss Wallace? Wallace entered politics as a segregationalist Democrat, running successfully for the governorship of Alabama. In his first inaugural speech, he pledged to fight for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever." In 1963, he stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama to block the admission of two black students, in
direct defiance of a Presidential desegregation order.
Remember the term Dixiecrat? Who do you think Jim Crowe was?
Trivia-
Name the card carrying Klansman in Congress today, and what party is he in?
Hint-In 1964 he filibustered the Civil Rights Act for more than 14 hours, one of the longest such delays in Senate history. Years later he voted against the Supreme Court nomination of Thurgood Marshall. He referred to the Klan as "an effective force in the struggle against communism and in the promotion of traditional American values."
BTW, care to guess which side has voted for more Civil Rights Legislation in the 20th Century? I dont think so.
Dont even fuckin go there, homey dont play that.