<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Give me a break! Neither party has done anything for the last 40 years on advancing civil rights except provide lip service. Both parties are completely different than they were in the 1960s and 1970s when Democrats were pro-segregation and Republicans were anti-war. </DIV>
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<DIV>Human rights advances now slowly go through the courts, not through elected chicken legislators that will not take a stand on anything unless it is to support someone or something shelling cash into their reelection coffers.</DIV>
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<DIV>You want to know an elected officials stand on any bill, just look at who gives them money. </DIV>
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<DIV>Your Friend,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold</DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 3/5/10, <SPAN>keely</SPAN> <SPAN><SPAN>emerinemix</SPAN></SPAN> <I><kjajmix1@msn.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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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 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 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="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: rgb(228,228,228)"><B>From:</B> <A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kjajmix1@msn.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lockshop@pull.twcbc.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lockshop@pull.twcbc.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com">lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</A> ; <A title=thansen@moscow.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
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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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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: rgb(228,228,228)"><B>From:</B> <A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kjajmix1@msn.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
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<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>>
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