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Without question, Gary, the people who contributed most to the civil rights movement were those Black Americans, and secondarily their supporters in either party, who risked beatings and imprisonment in their fight to gain the kind of civil rights and protections previously available only to white men and women, and before that, white men. I didn't think that needed to be stated. Frankly, as I said before, neither party did as much as they could to further the cause.<br><br>However, it seems I was careless -- I repeat myself here -- in my history by failing to recognize that some of the biggest opponents of justice and equality were Blue Dog Democrats. They aligned with Republicans, except for the moderate Eastern Seaboard, Ivy League, and Eisenhower Republicans you name, to keep the racist status quo intact and were hardly representative of the Democrat Party that did, however imperfectly, work toward civil rights. The GOP men on your list did right. But they wouldn't last a minute in today's GOP, which, its name notwithstanding, is a far different, far uglier, far less-committed-to-justice-and-equality group than the Republicans you name, and for today's GOP to co-opt Rosa Parks, and for the Tea Party Nation to co-opt Rosa Parks, is disingenuous at best. My errors don't negate that, but I apologize for them just the same.<br><br>One other thing, Gary. I think a lot of Democrats are absolutely on the wrong course. Still, the hands-down winner in the bigotry sweepstakes of the last 50 years is the GOP. That too many Democrats-in-name-only have flocked to their side in decades past is despicable, but not surprising. Men in power, whatever their official party affiliation, rarely take perceived threats to their majority status lying down, and few Americans of any party or any race have shown the courage of Ms. Parks and her civil rights-era compatriots.<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 15:55:34 -0800<br><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">"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."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">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 <strong>minority</strong> 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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">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.</font></div>
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228); font: 10pt arial;"><b>From:</b>
<a title="kjajmix1@msn.com" href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</a>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a title="lockshop@pull.twcbc.com" href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com">lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</a> ; <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: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:32
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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 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>
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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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<a title="kjajmix1@msn.com" href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely
emerinemix</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><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: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:57
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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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