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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. <br><br>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.<br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: lockshop@pull.twcbc.com<br>To: kjajmix1@msn.com; thansen@moscow.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?<br>Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:39:15 -0800<br><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Disgraceful behavior of the GOP during the civil rights
era?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">g</font></div></div>
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<a title="kjajmix1@msn.com" href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</a>
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="thansen@moscow.com" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</a> ; <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:57
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Say What?</div>
<div><br></div>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.<br><br>Which is something I think most of us could safely conclude Ms.
Parks would oppose.<br><br><font color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br>>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:05:25 -0800<br>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>>
To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?<br>>
<br>> "Rosa Parks did not move to the front of the bus to support
sodomy,"<br>> <br>> - Congressional candidate Barb Davis White (R-MN),
on marriage equality.<br>> <br>>
http://minnesotaindependent.com/55645/barb-davis-white-gay-marriage-rosa-parks<br>>
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