[Vision2020] Say What?

Thu Mar 4 15:55:34 PST 2010

"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."

Respectfully, I don't think you know what you are talking about. The 1964 civil rights act would not have passed were it not for the efforts of Republican senate minority leader Everett Dirksen and whip Thomas Kuchel. Dirksen was even presented with a civil rights accomplishment award by the head of the NAACP that year for his efforts. Dirkson also broke the filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act that was signed into law by Dwight Eisenhower, another evil member of the GOP.

The foolish notion that all democrats are rays of sunshine and any that aren't are under the pall of republican rain clouds is naive in the extreme. To claim that civil rights was the sole handiwork of either party is a fallacy and ignores those who worked the hardest to bring about change in race relations in this country, that being black Americans themselves.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: keely emerinemix 
  To: lockshop at pull.twcbc.com ; Tom Hansen ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:32 PM
  Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Say What?

  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

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  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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