[Vision2020] Say What?

[keely emerinemix]

You are, of course, that the men listed below were all not Republicans.  They were hardly friends of justice, equality, and the expansion of civil rights to the disenfranchised.  And, yeah, they were all registered Democrats or Independents.  The Democrats, of the Blue Dog stripe, those who were "D" in registration only, were puppets for the entrenched bigotry of the old South and were hardly Democrats in the same vein as those who fought -- and perhaps not as strongly as they should have -- for civil rights.  I was careless in suggesting that only Democrats of that era cared about civil rights, yes.  But I still contend that those Blue Dogs not only followed the lead of the dominant GOP then, but also helped influence Reagan's "Southern Strategy" a decade or so later and modeled the Trent Lott-style of bigotry common now to the Republican Party.  

After all, when Klansman David Duke sought political legitimacy in the 1980s and 90s, not many were surprised that he aligned himself with the GOP, which was dipping into the sewer of racially divisive politics with Lee Atwater and Ralph Reed, Jr.  Only the politically uninformed would ever have wondered which of the two parties Duke would gravitate to.  I think that says something.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




From: lockshop at pull.twcbc.com
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com; thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:39:15 -0800











Disgraceful behavior of the GOP during the civil rights 
era?
 
What did Robert Byrd, Howard W. Smith, James O. Eastland, 
Albert Gore, Sr., J. William Fulbright, Jimmy Byrnes, Hugo Black, Ernest 
Hollings, Sam Ervin, Richard Russell, George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Lester 
Maddox, etc, etc, etc, all have in common? Heres a hint for the slow, the 
young, and those with an excess of sanctamony, it wasn't an R following 
their names.
 
40% of the House Democrats voted against the 
Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it. Republican support in 
the Senate was even higher. Pretending that Democracts were the only 
Americans with an interest in civil rights legislation is either a display of 
willfull ignorance or a blatant distortion of fact.
 
g

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  keely emerinemix 
  
  To: Tom Hansen ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:57 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
  
My, what a disgusting co-opting of Rosa Parks, about whose 
  position on gay marriage nothing is known whatsoever.  What is known, 
  though, is not only the disgraceful behavior of the GOP during the civil 
  rights era, but its current eagerness to appropriate heroes of equality and 
  justice in its fight against basic civil rights for lesbian and gay 
  people.

Which is something I think most of us could safely conclude Ms. 
  Parks would oppose.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




> 
  Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:05:25 -0800
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
> 
  
> "Rosa Parks did not move to the front of the bus to support 
  sodomy,"
> 
> - Congressional candidate Barb Davis White (R-MN), 
  on marriage equality.
> 
> 
  http://minnesotaindependent.com/55645/barb-davis-white-gay-marriage-rosa-parks
> 
  
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, 
  Idaho
> 
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  expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
  
> - Unknown
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