GOP leaders to skip Selma event

[NYcarbineer]

I have one:

List of United States presidential election results by state - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Pick any southern state you want, in fact, quite easily, you can start with Alabama right at the top.

The chart clearly shows when Alabamans abandoned the Democratic Party and began voting Republican...

...right around the time of desegregation, civil rights, voting rights...for blacks.

If you have wikipedia you don't have shit. It's open sourced. I looked anyway and it just lists when states voted D or R and I can't see past the 1880s on my screen.

You don't understand the challenge, the claim was that Democrats became Republicans. We need evidence of the migration, not when parties took over a region. Plus Republicans did vote for civil rights, you're confused (as usual).

Using your silly logic the US turned Republican last November.

You're just using semantics because you've lost the argument. fuck off.

 

[NYcarbineer]

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I know this is going to sound crazy to some, but many people don't "vote according to their own personal interests."

Many people vote according to what they feel is best for the country as a whole, knowing that what's good for the country is good for them.

Crazy, huh? Voting "according to your own personal interests" seems kind of selfish to me.

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So what's the long list of your interests that you vote against for the greater good of the country?

 

[rightwinger]

Some interesting pictures:

These Iconic Photos Of The 1965 Selma March Give A Powerful Glimpse Of The Historic Protest

Amazing bravery that day

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”

Disappointing, but not surprising.

And that many republicans and conservatives might feel 'out of place' or 'uncomfortable' at such an event is on republicans and conservatives, not those attending the event.

The Blacks have become slaves on the Democrat's welfare plantation. 97% of them vote for the filthy ass Democrats.

The Blacks would get more respect if they would start voting for the good of their country instead of their own greed.

If they want to side with the Devil then they shouldn't expect to get any respect.

It's this sort of ignorance, hate, and stupidity from the right that the GOP leadership finds most embarrassing.

 

[peach174]

‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.

Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.

None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.

“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”

Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.

“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”​

More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO

So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.

Why should they?
It's the Democrat Party that caused it in the first place and it's only right that their Party is the one who should go and apologize for it.

 

[Lakhota]

The GOP’s Conspicuous Absence from Selma

On the 50th anniversary of the historic march for civil rights, Republicans are largely no-shows.

By declining to join, Ohio representative Marsha Fudge told Politico, the GOP has “lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care.” Fudge is, of course, entirely correct. But the absence is far, far worse than that. By electing to skip the proceedings — and to send a former president and a handful of congressional representatives in lieu — the Republican leadership suggests that it does not recognize what Selma represents within America’s long history of public dissent.

More: The GOP's Conspicuous Absence from Selma

Republicans don't even pretend to care.

 

[Jroc]

Everything the Dems do is designed to increase racial tensions. I would avoid it, too, because people will get nasty if they see non-liberals there. I'm sure race-baiter supreme, Al Sharpton, will be on hand to incite some anger.

Obama couldn't even join an international march against terrorism. Don't bother trying to pick on people for this one.

So it was democrats that made the Ferguson police send racist emails? They didn't create the racial tension, it was already there.

3 out of 100 shut up with your stupidity How about all those leftist Hollywood Emails? Leftists are the out most racist piece of shits on the earth.

 

[mudwhistle]

But....but.....now we have a black President who they hate....so.....

That's because all the dixiecrats flipped after 1965.

Sure they did....

Strange......most of them here in the South still vote Dimocrat. Kentucky for example.

Nonsense, most of the south has voted Republican for more than thirty years.

Bullshit. I live here. I know what's going on. Democrats just don't give em reason enough to show up at the polls, but most of these Dixicrats are still voting Dimocrat. They can't bring themselves to vote for Democrats anymore and they won't vote for Republicans.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.

Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.

None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.

“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”

Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.

“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”​

More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO

So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.

Why should they?
It's the Democrat Party that caused it in the first place and it's only right that their Party is the one who should go and apologize for it.

Incorrect.

It was a policy implemented and maintained by conservatives, a policy liberals successfully destroyed using the rule of law and the Constitution.

Indeed, many of those conservatives who supported segregation later found refuge in the republican party; and that racism can still be found today among the ranks of republicans and conservatives.

 

[Jroc]

Everything the Dems do is designed to increase racial tensions. I would avoid it, too, because people will get nasty if they see non-liberals there. I'm sure race-baiter supreme, Al Sharpton, will be on hand to incite some anger.

Obama couldn't even join an international march against terrorism. Don't bother trying to pick on people for this one.

We all know that Dems voted against equal rights for minorities and all the spinning in the world won't change history. Look it up and then shut up about old Dems being today's Repubs. It isn't true and never will be.

To this day, Dems like to keep blacks in check by luring them under their wing for a permanent life of dependency and pretending to protect them from the achievers. All they have to do is vote for you so you can take power from the people and give it to government. What liberals offer people is the opposite of true freedom, so nothing has changed with Dems. They like people dependent, ignorant and angry and they are damn good at making them that way.

If you respect people, you don't tell them that they cannot succeed without your help in subsidizing them and lowering standards because they are hapless victims who are entitled to reparations. You do that with people you want to control and that is exactly what far left pukes seek to do.

Of course it'll be about Obama as much as Selma. I'm sick of hearing that idiot

 

[Jroc]

‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.

Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.

None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.

“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”

Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.

“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”​

More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO

So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.

Why should they?
It's the Democrat Party that caused it in the first place and it's only right that their Party is the one who should go and apologize for it.

Incorrect.

It was a policy implemented and maintained by conservatives, a policy liberals successfully destroyed using the rule of law and the Constitution.

Indeed, many of those conservatives who supported segregation later found refuge in the republican party; and that racism can still be found today among the ranks of republicans and conservatives.

Your full of leftist crap name those segregationist in the Republican party

 

[peach174]

The GOP’s Conspicuous Absence from Selma

On the 50th anniversary of the historic march for civil rights, Republicans are largely no-shows.

By declining to join, Ohio representative Marsha Fudge told Politico, the GOP has “lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care.” Fudge is, of course, entirely correct. But the absence is far, far worse than that. By electing to skip the proceedings — and to send a former president and a handful of congressional representatives in lieu — the Republican leadership suggests that it does not recognize what Selma represents within America’s long history of public dissent.

More: The GOP's Conspicuous Absence from Selma

Republicans don't even pretend to care.

They don't need to show people they care. They did not create those racist laws.
It's the Dems that need to show that they care and apologize for what their party did 50 years ago.

 

[Lakhota]

Everything the Dems do is designed to increase racial tensions. I would avoid it, too, because people will get nasty if they see non-liberals there. I'm sure race-baiter supreme, Al Sharpton, will be on hand to incite some anger.

Obama couldn't even join an international march against terrorism. Don't bother trying to pick on people for this one.

We all know that Dems voted against equal rights for minorities and all the spinning in the world won't change history. Look it up and then shut up about old Dems being today's Repubs. It isn't true and never will be.

To this day, Dems like to keep blacks in check by luring them under their wing for a permanent life of dependency and pretending to protect them from the achievers. All they have to do is vote for you so you can take power from the people and give it to government. What liberals offer people is the opposite of true freedom, so nothing has changed with Dems. They like people dependent, ignorant and angry and they are damn good at making them that way.

If you respect people, you don't tell them that they cannot succeed without your help in subsidizing them and lowering standards because they are hapless victims who are entitled to reparations. You do that with people you want to control and that is exactly what far left pukes seek to do.

Of course it'll be about Obama as much as Selma. I'm sick of hearing that idiot

Well then, just don't vote for him.

 

[Jroc]

Everything the Dems do is designed to increase racial tensions. I would avoid it, too, because people will get nasty if they see non-liberals there. I'm sure race-baiter supreme, Al Sharpton, will be on hand to incite some anger.

Obama couldn't even join an international march against terrorism. Don't bother trying to pick on people for this one.

We all know that Dems voted against equal rights for minorities and all the spinning in the world won't change history. Look it up and then shut up about old Dems being today's Repubs. It isn't true and never will be.

To this day, Dems like to keep blacks in check by luring them under their wing for a permanent life of dependency and pretending to protect them from the achievers. All they have to do is vote for you so you can take power from the people and give it to government. What liberals offer people is the opposite of true freedom, so nothing has changed with Dems. They like people dependent, ignorant and angry and they are damn good at making them that way.

If you respect people, you don't tell them that they cannot succeed without your help in subsidizing them and lowering standards because they are hapless victims who are entitled to reparations. You do that with people you want to control and that is exactly what far left pukes seek to do.

Of course it'll be about Obama as much as Selma. I'm sick of hearing that idiot

Well then, just don't vote for him.

He cant run anymore. i supposed you like to change the constitution so he can

 

[Lakhota]

Democrats the Party of Racists? The Myth of the Liberal Dixiecrats

Debunking the myth that Republicans love to repeat.

Are Democrats the party of racists? This myth surrounding the Dixiecrats must be addressed. This is an argument that I have heard Republicans and conservatives float out a lot. Every time I hear conservatives talk about racism they always say that the Democrats are the “party of the Klan” and that they were the ones that supported segregation. There is a half-truth to this, but of course conservative Republicans always embellish the facts to support their dogma.

More: Democrats the Party of Racists? The Myth of the Liberal Dixiecrats

Read and learn.

 

[peach174]

‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.

Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.

None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.

“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”

Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.

“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”​

More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO

So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.

Why should they?
It's the Democrat Party that caused it in the first place and it's only right that their Party is the one who should go and apologize for it.

Incorrect.

It was a policy implemented and maintained by conservatives, a policy liberals successfully destroyed using the rule of law and the Constitution.

Indeed, many of those conservatives who supported segregation later found refuge in the republican party; and that racism can still be found today among the ranks of republicans and conservatives.

Only 6 moved over to the Republicans and that was only so that they could get elected.
Liberals did not take over the Democrat Party until the early 1970's.
It was Republicans and Moderates who destroyed it.
Own up to it.
It was Dems who caused Selma.

 

[rightwinger]

‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.

Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.

None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.

“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”

Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.

“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”​

More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO

So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.

Why should they?
It's the Democrat Party that caused it in the first place and it's only right that their Party is the one who should go and apologize for it.

The marchers at Selma were Democrats

Why not be honest and admit that it was conservatives who were beating the shit out of protesters and today's conservatives who avoid commemorating it?

 

[peach174]

‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.

Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.

None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.

“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”

Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.

“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”​

More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO

So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.

Why should they?
It's the Democrat Party that caused it in the first place and it's only right that their Party is the one who should go and apologize for it.

The marchers at Selma were Democrats

Why not be honest and admit that it was conservatives who were beating the shit out of protesters and today's conservatives who avoid commemorating it?

It was Conservative Dems who did it not Conservative Republicans.

 

[Lakhota]

Why didn't NaziCon leaders show up in force in Selma and try to take credit for all their self-proclaimed good deeds?

 

[rightwinger]

‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.

Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.

None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.

“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”

Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.

“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”​

More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO

So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.

Why should they?
It's the Democrat Party that caused it in the first place and it's only right that their Party is the one who should go and apologize for it.

The marchers at Selma were Democrats

Why not be honest and admit that it was conservatives who were beating the shit out of protesters and today's conservatives who avoid commemorating it?

It was Conservative Dems who did it not Conservative Republicans.

Complete revisionist history

Civil rights was a north/south issue

Republicans in the south opposed civil rights
Democrats in the south opposed civil rights

Only liberals in the south supported civil rights