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

[AvgGuyIA]

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.

They all became Republicans. Worse yet they are all Tea Party Republicans now.

Your lie does not change the truth.

 

[Stephanie]

you see what Party is tearing this country apart

and it's the party this Lewis belong to with all their ugly sheep followers like in this thread

our politics is in the gutter the same as our country is

hopeless

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Lewis is a traitor to our nation.

Lewis is a great American patriot who fought for liberty and freedom

But since that liberty and freedom was for black Americans, Republicans consider him a villian

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

Lewis is a traitor to our nation.

Lewis is a great American patriot who fought for liberty and freedom

But since that liberty and freedom was for black Americans, Republicans consider him a villian

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

Lewis is a great American patriot who fought for liberty and freedom

But since that liberty and freedom was for black Americans, Republicans consider him a villian

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

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.

Can you imagine that only 10 % of blacks vote republican today?

Yep. You plantation Democrats did a number on the other 90%. Sad for the American negro.

 

[guno]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

"white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next."

And these rightwing dolts are freaking out as the know the demographic shift has overtaken them

 

[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.

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

See that is the difference between truth and what you post. I posted quotes clearly showing the racism of the democrats. YOU on the other hand perpetuate a lie. Sure you could find some social racist that sad some things racist. But I seriously doubt you'll find one from the level of VP of the country.

For a concrete example of left wing institutional racism.

Voter id opposition. They call it disenfranchisement. But why? Because they think so little of blacks, not just the poor, but blacks? They obviously think that blacks, not the poor, are either too lazy or too stupid to have an id which they probably already have. Have you ever entered a discussion with the left wing over voter id and have them not play the race card? Even though the majority, in numbers, of poor are not black? See how insidious is the left wing racism? Can you now see how little they think of blacks? Why can't the blacks see the same thing?

 

[Freewill]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

"white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next."

And these rightwing dolts are freaking out as the know the demographic shift has overtaken them

Interesting, another example of left wing racism. Are blacks the only people that wear hoodies? Apparently to the left wing all that wear hoodies are black as if a uniform.

 

[guno]

Bull Connor was a socialist, you drooling fucking moron.

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

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.

See that is the difference between truth and what you post. I posted quotes clearly showing the racism of the democrats. YOU on the other hand perpetuate a lie. Sure you could find some social racist that sad some things racist. But I seriously doubt you'll find one from the level of VP of the country.

For a concrete example of left wing institutional racism.

Voter id opposition. They call it disenfranchisement. But why? Because they think so little of blacks, not just the poor, but blacks? They obviously think that blacks, not the poor, are either too lazy or too stupid to have an id which they probably already have. Have you ever entered a discussion with the left wing over voter id and have them not play the race card? Even though the majority, in numbers, of poor are not black? See how insidious is the left wing racism? Can you now see how little they think of blacks? Why can't the blacks see the same thing?

"Do you know why Americans hate welfare and why the country doesn't have universal health care? Because that would mean black people might get them too. This is something that has actually been studied and proven academically. A book called Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform covers it in its 4th Chapter; read it at the link below if you'd like. Once the media switched to using images of urban blacks as the face of the American poor rather than rural, Appalachian whites, what do you know, Americans no longer liked the idea of programs like welfare helping the poor! What a coincidence! Want to know why America attacks its safety net programs instead of supporting them like in Europe? That's why. They'd rather not have welfare or universal health coverage for anyone than to share it with blacks or latinos."

http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/9780472068...

 

[guno]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

"white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next."

And these rightwing dolts are freaking out as the know the demographic shift has overtaken them

Interesting, another example of left wing racism. Are blacks the only people that wear hoodies? Apparently to the left wing all that wear hoodies are black as if a uniform.

Your time is coming to an end , maybe time to pay the piper

 

[Freewill]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

"white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next."

And these rightwing dolts are freaking out as the know the demographic shift has overtaken them

Interesting, another example of left wing racism. Are blacks the only people that wear hoodies? Apparently to the left wing all that wear hoodies are black as if a uniform.

Your time is coming to an end , maybe time to pay the piper

Not sure why he made those comments, history certainly does not prove him correct. Logic proves him exactly wrong. Why would the racist leave the party of slavery for the party of Lincoln? It makes no sense, it is nonsense. Why would Nixon cater to racist then do so much for blacks? It makes no sense, it is nonsense. Nixon was the affirmative action president. If racists voted for him because of race then they certainly didn't get their monies worth. The truth is that when the south turned Republicans institutional Democrat racism ended. That is all you really need to know.

 

[Freewill]

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.

See that is the difference between truth and what you post. I posted quotes clearly showing the racism of the democrats. YOU on the other hand perpetuate a lie. Sure you could find some social racist that sad some things racist. But I seriously doubt you'll find one from the level of VP of the country.

For a concrete example of left wing institutional racism.

Voter id opposition. They call it disenfranchisement. But why? Because they think so little of blacks, not just the poor, but blacks? They obviously think that blacks, not the poor, are either too lazy or too stupid to have an id which they probably already have. Have you ever entered a discussion with the left wing over voter id and have them not play the race card? Even though the majority, in numbers, of poor are not black? See how insidious is the left wing racism? Can you now see how little they think of blacks? Why can't the blacks see the same thing?

"Do you know why Americans hate welfare and why the country doesn't have universal health care? Because that would mean black people might get them too. This is something that has actually been studied and proven academically. A book called Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform covers it in its 4th Chapter; read it at the link below if you'd like. Once the media switched to using images of urban blacks as the face of the American poor rather than rural, Appalachian whites, what do you know, Americans no longer liked the idea of programs like welfare helping the poor! What a coincidence! Want to know why America attacks its safety net programs instead of supporting them like in Europe? That's why. They'd rather not have welfare or universal health coverage for anyone than to share it with blacks or latinos."

http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/9780472068...

Now why would you think that opposition to free healthcare would be because of race? Why wouldn't opposition be directed at the POOR? Why must you put color into the equation? Is your arguments that weak? No, the reason is, is because that is the way YOU think. That is the way the left wing thinks, it is in the left wing blood to be racist then lie about it. You can't help yourself.

 

[guno]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

"white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next."

And these rightwing dolts are freaking out as the know the demographic shift has overtaken them

Interesting, another example of left wing racism. Are blacks the only people that wear hoodies? Apparently to the left wing all that wear hoodies are black as if a uniform.

Your time is coming to an end , maybe time to pay the piper

 

[Ibentoken]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

"white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next."

And these rightwing dolts are freaking out as the know the demographic shift has overtaken them

Interesting, another example of left wing racism. Are blacks the only people that wear hoodies? Apparently to the left wing all that wear hoodies are black as if a uniform.

Your time is coming to an end , maybe time to pay the piper

John Lewis pulled the race card and lied. Period.

 

[Freewill]

The Neocons and Nixon's southern strategy

Now, as a co-architect of the Nixon strategy that gave the GOP a lock on the White House for a quarter century, let me say that Kristol’s opportunism is matched only by his ignorance. Richard Nixon kicked off his historic comeback in 1966 with a column on the South (by this writer) that declared we would build our Republican Party on a foundation of states rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense, and leave it to the “party of Maddox, Mahoney and Wallace to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice.”
In that ’66 campaign, Nixon – who had been thanked personally by Dr. King for his help in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 – endorsed all Republicans, except members of the John Birch Society.

Read more at The Neocons and Nixon 8217 s southern strategy

Between 1969 and 1974, Nixon – who believed that blacks had gotten a raw deal in America and wanted to extend a helping hand:

• • raised the civil rights enforcement budget 800 percent;
  • doubled the budget for black colleges;
  • appointed more blacks to federal posts and high positions than any president, including LBJ;
  • adopted the Philadelphia Plan mandating quotas for blacks in unions, and for black scholars in colleges and universities;
  • invented “Black Capitalism” (the Office of Minority Business Enterprise), raised U.S. purchases from black businesses from $9 million to $153 million, increased small business loans to minorities 1,000 percent, increased U.S. deposits in minority-owned banks 4,000 percent;
  • raised the share of Southern schools that were desegregated from 10 percent to 70 percent. Wrote the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1975, “It has only been since 1968 that substantial reduction of racial segregation has taken place in the South.”

The charge that we built our Republican coalition on race is a lie. Nixon routed the left because it had shown itself incompetent to win or end a war into which it had plunged the United States and too befuddled or cowardly to denounce the rioters burning our cities or the brats rampaging on our campuses.

Read more at The Neocons and Nixon 8217 s southern strategy

 

[Freewill]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

"white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next."

And these rightwing dolts are freaking out as the know the demographic shift has overtaken them

Interesting, another example of left wing racism. Are blacks the only people that wear hoodies? Apparently to the left wing all that wear hoodies are black as if a uniform.

Your time is coming to an end , maybe time to pay the piper

Who is that guy? Does he rise to the level of VP or the next Democrat presidential nominee? I don't think so. I don't know him but I know what you post much better.

 

[Mojo2]

Let us see, what exactly does he have to be proud about when someone else gets elected? Oh right he is proud of his racism.

Let us see, the democrats have dominated the government going on 8 years now with arguably a super majority for one year and we see the results.

Notice he doesn't campaign on the accomplishment of Obama but on fear generated over old ladies with tea bags in their hats. Quite amusing, thanks for sharing the morning is a good time for a laugh.

What does John Lewis have to be proud of in the election of the first black president?

John Lewis fought for civil rights and was willing to give up his life for freedom and liberty. The election of a black man as President showed that his struggles for Civil Rights was not in vain

John Lewis is a great American

John Lewis should be pissed (and he probably is) that Obama does not do more for "da struggle". Obama's presidency may have in part been enabled by the work of civil rights activists like Lewis. His presidency was also enabled by a dumbed-down electorate and a sympathetic media. You can debate degree, as I do not care. My point is that Obama is a narcissistic opportunist with a "posse" of Chicago assholes with an agenda. It the agenda coincides with black civil rights issues, then great. If not, then fuck it; ObamaNation comes first. In Obama's head the person most responsible for his success is OBAMA.

That.

Never mind being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize within a week or two of his inauguration, simply for being black.

Ahhhhhh... the heady days of rainbows and unicorns.

Culminating in the Failed Messiah and an electorate eagerly anticipating January 20, 2017, before He can do much more damage.

Obama did win the Nobel Peace Prize for winning the presidency in a country with a historic race problem. When Obama was born, much of the US would have lynched his father for marrying a white woman. That child rose to be President of the most powerful nation on earth

Well worth a Nobel Prize

Not with the skimpy ass , bullshit, White hope, qualifications he had, no.

 

[Kondor3]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

More race-baiting and hate-mongering.

Just another White Boy (Socca) who hates his own people and wants to help bring about their downfall.

Just another Quisling - another Fifth Columnist - and almost certainly a certifiable member of the Extreme Left, and a certifiable lunatic.

Fuck the author, and those who think like him.

 

[Mojo2]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

More race-baiting and hate-mongering.

Just another White Boy who hates his own people and wants to help bring about their downfall.

Just another Quisling - another Fifth Columnist - and almost certainly a certifiable member of the Extreme Left, and a certifiable lunatic.

Fuck the author, and those who think like him.

When we are able to be 'herded' with appeals to our basest racist impulses we allow that puppet master to turn us against one another.

The puppet master who hates us ALL.

They don't want us united. They want us separated by race and by whatever our thoughts happen to be on race.

United?

We stand.

Divided?

We fall.

 

[rightwinger]

Lewis is a great American patriot who fought for liberty and freedom

But since that liberty and freedom was for black Americans, Republicans consider him a villian

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

Lewis is a great American patriot who fought for liberty and freedom

But since that liberty and freedom was for black Americans, Republicans consider him a villian

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

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.

Can you imagine that only 10 % of blacks vote republican today?

Yep. You plantation Democrats did a number on the other 90%. Sad for the American negro.

Want them back?

Simply explain how they will be better off with republican representation

 

[Kondor3]

When we are able to be 'herded' with appeals to our basest racist impulses we allow that puppet master to turn us against one another.

The puppet master who hates us ALL.

They don't want us united. They want us separated by race and by whatever our thoughts happen to be on race.

United?

We stand.

Divided?

We fall.

Very well said.

 

[Mojo2]

This is the ugly left that has taken over the Democrat party of today. This man is an elected Representative of the WE THE PEOPLE in this country. and you SUPPORT this?

SNIP:

Yeah, John, Obama’s presidency is in a tailspin and he did it all by himself.
Subject: Terrifying
From: John Lewis <[email protected] >
Date: September 27, 2014 8:58:29 AM EDT
To: Drew

Barack Obama’s election was one of the proudest days of my life.
I felt like I had spent decades fighting for that moment…and in many ways I had.
But now 6 years later, Republicans are trying once again to tear the President down. And quite frankly, it terrifies me what they could do if they grow their Tea Party Majority in this election.
That’s why I need your help. That’s why I need you to answer President Obama’s call-to-action right now. I’m not ready to give up on his last 2 years in office. And you shouldn’t be either.
The most critical deadline of the election is in 3 days. Can I count on you right now?

FROM:
Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He 8217 s 8220 Terrified 8221 Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down 8230 Weasel Zippers

"What white people fear, at bottom, is retribution. This is why discussion of actual injustice is supposed to be off-limits. Despite the glorious principles spelled out 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, they lack a functioning concept of justice. To admit the harms of the past is to invite payback. When Andrew Breitbart raised a race panic over Shirley Sherrod, the real issue was that he and his followers were incapable of understanding Sherrod's story of transcending racial resentment. They were too trapped by rage and paranoia to get the point."

Fifty Years After the March White People Are Still a Disgrace

"white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next."

And these rightwing dolts are freaking out as the know the demographic shift has overtaken them

Interesting, another example of left wing racism. Are blacks the only people that wear hoodies? Apparently to the left wing all that wear hoodies are black as if a uniform.

Your time is coming to an end , maybe time to pay the piper

If you have an electorate who uses the same decision making skills that a three year old uses when turning their nose up at spinach and green beans, no. I DON'T want everybody to vote!

Not if their level of 'discernment' results in 8 years of THIS kind of dysfunction and damage being done to America, the American government and our system of justice and government and to Americans, individually and by demographic segments and as an entire nation.

No.

I think those who voted in Obama have shown EXACTLY why Weyrich's comments make more sense today than ever before!

Certainly more than they did when he made them!