Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He’s “terrified” Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down…

[Freewill]

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

MLK's father was a republican. Was he a racist?

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

"Conservative" and "racist" are pretty much synonymous nowadays. Which party is considered the conservative party? -- Republican, well Libertarians like Ron Paul are quite racist/bigoted too.

Plus, which party do you identify with? How about the others critical of John Lewis?

And you're a liberal, thus a liar.

 

[rightwinger]

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

"Conservative" and "racist" are pretty much synonymous nowadays. Which party is considered the conservative party? -- Republican, well Libertarians like Ron Paul are quite racist/bigoted too.

Plus, which party do you identify with? How about the others critical of John Lewis?

And you're a liberal, thus a liar.

You are a conservative, thus, by definition....a retard

 

[Ibentoken]

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

MLK's father was a republican. Was he a racist?

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

"Conservative" and "racist" are pretty much synonymous nowadays. Which party is considered the conservative party? -- Republican, well Libertarians like Ron Paul are quite racist/bigoted too.

Plus, which party do you identify with? How about the others critical of John Lewis?

You're very I'll.

 

[OODA_Loop]

Obama is doing a fine job tearing himself down.

 

[Ibentoken]

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

"Conservative" and "racist" are pretty much synonymous nowadays. Which party is considered the conservative party? -- Republican, well Libertarians like Ron Paul are quite racist/bigoted too.

Plus, which party do you identify with? How about the others critical of John Lewis?

And you're a liberal, thus a liar.

You are a conservative, thus, by definition....a retard

You lose.

 

[Ibentoken]

I love chewing up these nasty leftist lying trash.

What REALLY matters Unhyphenated America

 

[SmedlyButler]

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Bull Connor was a socialist, you drooling fucking moron.

Was he a "conservative" socialist, shit fer brains?

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

The thing that marked the Segregationists was that they represented the radical left of the party.Orval Faubus returned from WWI and joined the Communist Party, which his father was a leader in. He left the CPUSA and joined Roosevelt as a champion of the New Deal and was embraced by the party.

I realize that democrats are utterly without honor or integrity - but the attempt by the left to recast the segregationists are "conservative" is a level of outrageous lies that must be answered.

Racism and collectivism are natural partners, both deny the individual in favor of the group - where it is socialist democrats like Bull Connor demanding that people are no more than their skin color, or Barack Obama saying people are no more than the results of repression by EVIL WHITEY - it's all the same - the collectivist denial of the individual.

You might put a young Bull Connor in the "populist" camp along with many other conservatives (and liberals). You'd have a hard time devising a narrative that would support your Conner as socialist bullshit. Conner, like his fellow Right-wing populist Joseph McCarthy, was vehemently anti-communist;

"In 1948, Connor's officers arrested U.S. Senator from Idaho, Glen H. Taylor, the running mate of Progressive presidential candidate (and former Democratic Vice President) Henry Wallace. Taylor, who had attempted to speak to the Southern Negro Youth Congress, was arrested for violating Birmingham's segregation laws. Connor's concerted effort to enforce the law was sparked by the group's reported communist philosophy, with Connor noting at the time, "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies."

AND;

"A second run for Governor fell flat in 1954, but Connor remained a focal point of controversy that year by pushing through a new city ordinance in Birmingham that outlawed communism".

Those snippets are both from wikipedia. There's mountains of evidence to support the fact that Connor was just about as far from socialism as you can get. Including Connors own files. A treasure trove of these files are preserved in the Birmingham Public Library and are available on line through the Birmingham Public Library digital collections here. I've gone through them, I invite you to do the same and see if you can still hold on to that notion of Connor as socialist.

At that 1948 Democratic convention Connor was a delegate and led the Alabama delegation in it's walkout when the platform committee included a civil rights plank.

I can understand Republicans trying to distance themselves from the conservative racists who rally under their banner today, but you would be more honest by outing them instead of denying they exist and tortuously distorting and making a mockery of historical facts. Name calling and bizarre Orwellian manipulation of language does not an argument make, they just add to the aura of lunacy you folks have about you.

 

[Ibentoken]

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Bull Connor was a socialist, you drooling fucking moron.

Was he a "conservative" socialist, shit fer brains?

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

The thing that marked the Segregationists was that they represented the radical left of the party.Orval Faubus returned from WWI and joined the Communist Party, which his father was a leader in. He left the CPUSA and joined Roosevelt as a champion of the New Deal and was embraced by the party.

I realize that democrats are utterly without honor or integrity - but the attempt by the left to recast the segregationists are "conservative" is a level of outrageous lies that must be answered.

Racism and collectivism are natural partners, both deny the individual in favor of the group - where it is socialist democrats like Bull Connor demanding that people are no more than their skin color, or Barack Obama saying people are no more than the results of repression by EVIL WHITEY - it's all the same - the collectivist denial of the individual.

You might put a young Bull Connor in the "populist" camp along with many other conservatives (and liberals). You'd have a hard time devising a narrative that would support your Conner as socialist bullshit. Conner, like his fellow Right-wing populist Joseph McCarthy, was vehemently anti-communist;

"In 1948, Connor's officers arrested U.S. Senator from Idaho, Glen H. Taylor, the running mate of Progressive presidential candidate (and former Democratic Vice President) Henry Wallace. Taylor, who had attempted to speak to the Southern Negro Youth Congress, was arrested for violating Birmingham's segregation laws. Connor's concerted effort to enforce the law was sparked by the group's reported communist philosophy, with Connor noting at the time, "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies."

AND;

"A second run for Governor fell flat in 1954, but Connor remained a focal point of controversy that year by pushing through a new city ordinance in Birmingham that outlawed communism".

Those snippets are both from wikipedia. There's mountains of evidence to support the fact that Connor was just about as far from socialism as you can get. Including Connors own files. A treasure trove of these files are preserved in the Birmingham Public Library and are available on line through the Birmingham Public Library digital collections here. I've gone through them, I invite you to do the same and see if you can still hold on to that notion of Connor as socialist.

At that 1948 Democratic convention Connor was a delegate and led the Alabama delegation in it's walkout when the platform committee included a civil rights plank.

I can understand Republicans trying to distance themselves from the conservative racists who rally under their banner today, but you would be more honest by outing them instead of denying they exist and tortuously distorting and making a mockery of historical facts. Name calling and bizarre Orwellian manipulation of language does not an argument make, they just add to the aura of lunacy you folks have about you.

Give me a name. Who is a conservative racist?

 

[Freewill]

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Bull Connor was a socialist, you drooling fucking moron.

Was he a "conservative" socialist, shit fer brains?

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

The thing that marked the Segregationists was that they represented the radical left of the party.Orval Faubus returned from WWI and joined the Communist Party, which his father was a leader in. He left the CPUSA and joined Roosevelt as a champion of the New Deal and was embraced by the party.

I realize that democrats are utterly without honor or integrity - but the attempt by the left to recast the segregationists are "conservative" is a level of outrageous lies that must be answered.

Racism and collectivism are natural partners, both deny the individual in favor of the group - where it is socialist democrats like Bull Connor demanding that people are no more than their skin color, or Barack Obama saying people are no more than the results of repression by EVIL WHITEY - it's all the same - the collectivist denial of the individual.

You might put a young Bull Connor in the "populist" camp along with many other conservatives (and liberals). You'd have a hard time devising a narrative that would support your Conner as socialist bullshit. Conner, like his fellow Right-wing populist Joseph McCarthy, was vehemently anti-communist;

"In 1948, Connor's officers arrested U.S. Senator from Idaho, Glen H. Taylor, the running mate of Progressive presidential candidate (and former Democratic Vice President) Henry Wallace. Taylor, who had attempted to speak to the Southern Negro Youth Congress, was arrested for violating Birmingham's segregation laws. Connor's concerted effort to enforce the law was sparked by the group's reported communist philosophy, with Connor noting at the time, "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies."

AND;

"A second run for Governor fell flat in 1954, but Connor remained a focal point of controversy that year by pushing through a new city ordinance in Birmingham that outlawed communism".

Those snippets are both from wikipedia. There's mountains of evidence to support the fact that Connor was just about as far from socialism as you can get. Including Connors own files. A treasure trove of these files are preserved in the Birmingham Public Library and are available on line through the Birmingham Public Library digital collections here. I've gone through them, I invite you to do the same and see if you can still hold on to that notion of Connor as socialist.

At that 1948 Democratic convention Connor was a delegate and led the Alabama delegation in it's walkout when the platform committee included a civil rights plank.

I can understand Republicans trying to distance themselves from the conservative racists who rally under their banner today, but you would be more honest by outing them instead of denying they exist and tortuously distorting and making a mockery of historical facts. Name calling and bizarre Orwellian manipulation of language does not an argument make, they just add to the aura of lunacy you folks have about you.

Give me a name. Who is a conservative racist?

They'll give you names like George Wallace and Stom Thurmond.

Or in a year or two they will say these quotes are from Republicans who switched sides.

“You’re not a member of the Taliban, are you?”

“I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station? A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station”

“In about 18 months from now, hopefully [state Sen. Vincent Sheheen] will have sent Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from and this country can move forward.

“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking!”

“I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.”

“[Harry Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as a Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American with ‘no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’”

"They're going to put y'all back in chains,"

The left wing have been and always will be the party of racism. They use it as a political tool. They have lied so long the truth is foreign to them.

There indeed are racists in the Republican party as I know there are in the Democrat party. But those are what I will call social racists. The real problem is, what I will call, institutional racism which was and always will be in the democrat playbook.

 

[AtticusF]

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Bull Connor was a socialist, you drooling fucking moron.

Was he a "conservative" socialist, shit fer brains?

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

The thing that marked the Segregationists was that they represented the radical left of the party.Orval Faubus returned from WWI and joined the Communist Party, which his father was a leader in. He left the CPUSA and joined Roosevelt as a champion of the New Deal and was embraced by the party.

I realize that democrats are utterly without honor or integrity - but the attempt by the left to recast the segregationists are "conservative" is a level of outrageous lies that must be answered.

Racism and collectivism are natural partners, both deny the individual in favor of the group - where it is socialist democrats like Bull Connor demanding that people are no more than their skin color, or Barack Obama saying people are no more than the results of repression by EVIL WHITEY - it's all the same - the collectivist denial of the individual.

You might put a young Bull Connor in the "populist" camp along with many other conservatives (and liberals). You'd have a hard time devising a narrative that would support your Conner as socialist bullshit. Conner, like his fellow Right-wing populist Joseph McCarthy, was vehemently anti-communist;

"In 1948, Connor's officers arrested U.S. Senator from Idaho, Glen H. Taylor, the running mate of Progressive presidential candidate (and former Democratic Vice President) Henry Wallace. Taylor, who had attempted to speak to the Southern Negro Youth Congress, was arrested for violating Birmingham's segregation laws. Connor's concerted effort to enforce the law was sparked by the group's reported communist philosophy, with Connor noting at the time, "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies."

AND;

"A second run for Governor fell flat in 1954, but Connor remained a focal point of controversy that year by pushing through a new city ordinance in Birmingham that outlawed communism".

Those snippets are both from wikipedia. There's mountains of evidence to support the fact that Connor was just about as far from socialism as you can get. Including Connors own files. A treasure trove of these files are preserved in the Birmingham Public Library and are available on line through the Birmingham Public Library digital collections here. I've gone through them, I invite you to do the same and see if you can still hold on to that notion of Connor as socialist.

At that 1948 Democratic convention Connor was a delegate and led the Alabama delegation in it's walkout when the platform committee included a civil rights plank.

I can understand Republicans trying to distance themselves from the conservative racists who rally under their banner today, but you would be more honest by outing them instead of denying they exist and tortuously distorting and making a mockery of historical facts. Name calling and bizarre Orwellian manipulation of language does not an argument make, they just add to the aura of lunacy you folks have about you.

Give me a name. Who is a conservative racist?

They'll give you names like George Wallace and Stom Thurmond.

Or in a year or two they will say these quotes are from Republicans who switched sides.

“You’re not a member of the Taliban, are you?”

“I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station? A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station”

“In about 18 months from now, hopefully [state Sen. Vincent Sheheen] will have sent Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from and this country can move forward.

“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking!”

“I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.”

“[Harry Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as a Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American with ‘no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’”

"They're going to put y'all back in chains,"

The left wing have been and always will be the party of racism. They use it as a political tool. They have lied so long the truth is foreign to them.

There indeed are racists in the Republican party as I know there are in the Democrat party. But those are what I will call social racists. The real problem is, what I will call, institutional racism which was and always will be in the democrat playbook.

And then you have the outright hatred of minorities and anything that helps them posted here, and it's exclusively the right wingers.

 

[Ibentoken]

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Bull Connor was a socialist, you drooling fucking moron.

Was he a "conservative" socialist, shit fer brains?

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

The thing that marked the Segregationists was that they represented the radical left of the party.Orval Faubus returned from WWI and joined the Communist Party, which his father was a leader in. He left the CPUSA and joined Roosevelt as a champion of the New Deal and was embraced by the party.

I realize that democrats are utterly without honor or integrity - but the attempt by the left to recast the segregationists are "conservative" is a level of outrageous lies that must be answered.

Racism and collectivism are natural partners, both deny the individual in favor of the group - where it is socialist democrats like Bull Connor demanding that people are no more than their skin color, or Barack Obama saying people are no more than the results of repression by EVIL WHITEY - it's all the same - the collectivist denial of the individual.

You might put a young Bull Connor in the "populist" camp along with many other conservatives (and liberals). You'd have a hard time devising a narrative that would support your Conner as socialist bullshit. Conner, like his fellow Right-wing populist Joseph McCarthy, was vehemently anti-communist;

"In 1948, Connor's officers arrested U.S. Senator from Idaho, Glen H. Taylor, the running mate of Progressive presidential candidate (and former Democratic Vice President) Henry Wallace. Taylor, who had attempted to speak to the Southern Negro Youth Congress, was arrested for violating Birmingham's segregation laws. Connor's concerted effort to enforce the law was sparked by the group's reported communist philosophy, with Connor noting at the time, "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies."

AND;

"A second run for Governor fell flat in 1954, but Connor remained a focal point of controversy that year by pushing through a new city ordinance in Birmingham that outlawed communism".

Those snippets are both from wikipedia. There's mountains of evidence to support the fact that Connor was just about as far from socialism as you can get. Including Connors own files. A treasure trove of these files are preserved in the Birmingham Public Library and are available on line through the Birmingham Public Library digital collections here. I've gone through them, I invite you to do the same and see if you can still hold on to that notion of Connor as socialist.

At that 1948 Democratic convention Connor was a delegate and led the Alabama delegation in it's walkout when the platform committee included a civil rights plank.

I can understand Republicans trying to distance themselves from the conservative racists who rally under their banner today, but you would be more honest by outing them instead of denying they exist and tortuously distorting and making a mockery of historical facts. Name calling and bizarre Orwellian manipulation of language does not an argument make, they just add to the aura of lunacy you folks have about you.

Give me a name. Who is a conservative racist?

They'll give you names like George Wallace and Stom Thurmond.

Or in a year or two they will say these quotes are from Republicans who switched sides.

“You’re not a member of the Taliban, are you?”

“I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station? A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station”

“In about 18 months from now, hopefully [state Sen. Vincent Sheheen] will have sent Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from and this country can move forward.

“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking!”

“I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.”

“[Harry Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as a Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American with ‘no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’”

"They're going to put y'all back in chains,"

The left wing have been and always will be the party of racism. They use it as a political tool. They have lied so long the truth is foreign to them.

There indeed are racists in the Republican party as I know there are in the Democrat party. But those are what I will call social racists. The real problem is, what I will call, institutional racism which was and always will be in the democrat playbook.

And then you have the outright hatred of minorities and anything that helps them posted here, and it's exclusively the right wingers.

Give me a few names of racist right wingers

 

[Political Junky]

Felt the same way about conservative racists back in the 1960s, long before Maher was around. You guys ain't changed a bit, same old hatred and denial of being racist.

This worthless soul used to run for office when I was growing up, he claimed he wasn't a racist right up till they convicted him of bombing a Black church in Birmingham.

Oh?

Which "conservatives" were these, shit fer brains?

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

More liberal horseshit. Dixiecrats never left the Democrat party. Never.

Nope, it's right on. If you deny it, you're ignorant of history.
When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 he said he'd lost the South.

 

[Stephanie]

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

MLK's father was a republican. Was he a racist?

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

"Conservative" and "racist" are pretty much synonymous nowadays. Which party is considered the conservative party? -- Republican, well Libertarians like Ron Paul are quite racist/bigoted too.

Plus, which party do you identify with? How about the others critical of John Lewis?

omg, hear that folks, you can't be "critical" of Lewis or you be a racist
you,re not the judge and jury of people. You liberals have become nothing but race hustling bullies. And you're just a babbling idiot

 

[Stephanie]

what a disgusting piece of propaganda. They are going all out now to paint you people who are Republicans as racist. This is the dirty politics of the Democrat/commie party. you better wake the hell up

SNIP:
Politico Runs Story On GOP And Race, Uses Pic Of Democrat George Wallace…
Well done, Politico.

Story here…
HT: Instapundit

ALL of it here:
Politico Runs Story On GOP And Race Uses Pic Of Democrat George Wallace 8230 Weasel Zippers

 

[Jroc]

It was the OP that branded the Teaparty racist....not John Lewis

Lewis claimed the Tea Party called him "niqqer," which is a racist epithet. So again you lie - as did Mr. Lewis.

Once again, here is proof it did happen. I know you guys don't view videos -- especially when they prove you are lying and likely a racist -- but here is proof that the TParty protesters did use the N-word and spit on a Black Congressperson.

Doesn't take much for you weak minded people to believe something is there that isn't, because MSNBC says it is

 

[Mojo2]

MLK would be ashamed and embarrassed of what these people have become

really? speaking with his children , John Lewis and other who marched with Doctor king, I don't think so I know so, MLK was killed by a rightwing filthy goyim while he was fighting for labor rights, You are an embarrassment to the Jewish people,Such ignorance

I MET DR KING.

And I don't think he would have led us in this direction.

they use MLK so they can spread this type of hate like Lewis is.

I think he would be ashamed of this whole bunch in the NAACP, Holder, Obama, Lewis, etc etc

Yup. As I said, I don't think his vision and leadership would have allowed this situation to evolve as it has.

Louder Tom louder!!

Maybe they will let you lead the parade waving the stars and bars

Hey, at LEAST I'm Black.

You can only WISH YOU were!

And boy oh boy DO YOU!!!


LOLOLOL

 

[Mojo2]

Felt the same way about conservative racists back in the 1960s, long before Maher was around. You guys ain't changed a bit, same old hatred and denial of being racist.

This worthless soul used to run for office when I was growing up, he claimed he wasn't a racist right up till they convicted him of bombing a Black church in Birmingham.

Oh?

Which "conservatives" were these, shit fer brains?

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

More liberal horseshit. Dixiecrats never left the Democrat party. Never.

Nope, it's right on. If you deny it, you're ignorant of history.
When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 he said he'd lost the South.

More accurately, he said the law would guarantee the N---ers would be voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

In THOSE words.

President LBJ: "I’ll have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years" - Is this a real quote?

submitted 5 months ago by macabee

I found this over at /r/conspiracy:

I ll have those n s voting Democratic for the next 200 years - President LBJ conspiracy

Here are the claimed quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson (warning language):

Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963... "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference... I'll have them ******* voting Democratic for the next two hundred years".

I did some googling, and it seems that the only source I could find linked to this was from an unofficial biography. I was wondering if /r/AskHistorianscould weigh in on the issue?

President LBJ I ll have those n s voting Democratic for the next 200 years - Is this a real quote AskHistorians

 

[Jroc]

really? speaking with his children , John Lewis and other who marched with Doctor king, I don't think so I know so, MLK was killed by a rightwing filthy goyim while he was fighting for labor rights, You are an embarrassment to the Jewish people,Such ignorance

I MET DR KING.

And I don't think he would have led us in this direction.

they use MLK so they can spread this type of hate like Lewis is.

I think he would be ashamed of this whole bunch in the NAACP, Holder, Obama, Lewis, etc etc

Yup. As I said, I don't think his vision and leadership would have allowed this situation to evolve as it has.

Louder Tom louder!!

Maybe they will let you lead the parade waving the stars and bars

Hey, at LEAST I'm Black.

You can only WISH YOU were!

And boy oh boy DO YOU!!!


LOLOLOL

He seems to like playing a fake Jew. He may eventually pretend to be black as well

 

[Mojo2]

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Bull Connor was a socialist, you drooling fucking moron.

Was he a "conservative" socialist, shit fer brains?

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

The thing that marked the Segregationists was that they represented the radical left of the party.Orval Faubus returned from WWI and joined the Communist Party, which his father was a leader in. He left the CPUSA and joined Roosevelt as a champion of the New Deal and was embraced by the party.

I realize that democrats are utterly without honor or integrity - but the attempt by the left to recast the segregationists are "conservative" is a level of outrageous lies that must be answered.

Racism and collectivism are natural partners, both deny the individual in favor of the group - where it is socialist democrats like Bull Connor demanding that people are no more than their skin color, or Barack Obama saying people are no more than the results of repression by EVIL WHITEY - it's all the same - the collectivist denial of the individual.

You might put a young Bull Connor in the "populist" camp along with many other conservatives (and liberals). You'd have a hard time devising a narrative that would support your Conner as socialist bullshit. Conner, like his fellow Right-wing populist Joseph McCarthy, was vehemently anti-communist;

"In 1948, Connor's officers arrested U.S. Senator from Idaho, Glen H. Taylor, the running mate of Progressive presidential candidate (and former Democratic Vice President) Henry Wallace. Taylor, who had attempted to speak to the Southern Negro Youth Congress, was arrested for violating Birmingham's segregation laws. Connor's concerted effort to enforce the law was sparked by the group's reported communist philosophy, with Connor noting at the time, "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies."

AND;

"A second run for Governor fell flat in 1954, but Connor remained a focal point of controversy that year by pushing through a new city ordinance in Birmingham that outlawed communism".

Those snippets are both from wikipedia. There's mountains of evidence to support the fact that Connor was just about as far from socialism as you can get. Including Connors own files. A treasure trove of these files are preserved in the Birmingham Public Library and are available on line through the Birmingham Public Library digital collections here. I've gone through them, I invite you to do the same and see if you can still hold on to that notion of Connor as socialist.

At that 1948 Democratic convention Connor was a delegate and led the Alabama delegation in it's walkout when the platform committee included a civil rights plank.

I can understand Republicans trying to distance themselves from the conservative racists who rally under their banner today, but you would be more honest by outing them instead of denying they exist and tortuously distorting and making a mockery of historical facts. Name calling and bizarre Orwellian manipulation of language does not an argument make, they just add to the aura of lunacy you folks have about you.

Give me a name. Who is a conservative racist?

They'll give you names like George Wallace and Stom Thurmond.

Or in a year or two they will say these quotes are from Republicans who switched sides.

“You’re not a member of the Taliban, are you?”

“I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station? A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station”

“In about 18 months from now, hopefully [state Sen. Vincent Sheheen] will have sent Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from and this country can move forward.

“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking!”

“I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.”

“[Harry Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as a Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American with ‘no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’”

"They're going to put y'all back in chains,"

The left wing have been and always will be the party of racism. They use it as a political tool. They have lied so long the truth is foreign to them.

There indeed are racists in the Republican party as I know there are in the Democrat party. But those are what I will call social racists. The real problem is, what I will call, institutional racism which was and always will be in the democrat playbook.

Great post!



M2

 

[Mojo2]

This was a disgusting display by people elected to your government

What it said to me was, I am in power and I have all the power over you



in my opinion they DESERVED to be spit and pissed on. They aren't royalty, our masters and on some frikken pedestal. or any BETTER than the people they supposedly REPRESENT

Both spat on AND pissed on?

And then Conservatives fake outrage when they are called on it

One funny joke.