Quick History lesson

[Kosh]

Means nothing as the southern GOP voted almost unanimously against the acts; can't get away from that.

10 vs 87? Wow! That far left math is in play here again.

No matter which way the 10 voted it would not have countered the 87 Democrats (in the south) that voted it down, thus proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Democrats were the party of NO on civil rights.

Only in strange faith no critical thinking far right reactionary land.

Your analysis is not used in the high school and university text books, never will be.

Let us look at the numbers and percentages:

Vote totals[edit]

Totals are in "Yea–Nay" format:
The original House version: 290–130 (69–31%).
Cloture in the Senate: 71–29 (71–29%).
The Senate version: 73–27 (73–27%).
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289–126 (70–30%).

By party[edit]

The original House version:[19]
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)

Cloture in the Senate:[20]
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

The Senate version:[19]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[19]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)

Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Democrats were the Party of NO!!!

 

[paperview]

I think you might be forgetting some.

In alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years since ..oh, 1929, you'd think pubs could have found a way to elect just a few more black folks.

Here is a list of African Americans elected to Congress since 1929.
(compiled before the 2010 election, so it does not reflect current count):
.
Pay special attention to the party affiliation:

Oscar Stanton De Priest Republican Illinois 1929-1935
Arthur W. Mitchell Democrat Illinois 1935-1943
William L. Dawson Democrat Illinois 1943-1970
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Democrat New York 1945-1967, 1967-1971
Charles Diggs Democrat Michigan 1955-1980
Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Democrat Pennsylvania 1958-1979
John Conyers Democrat 1965-present
Bill Clay Democrat Missouri 1969-2001
Louis Stokes Democrat Ohio 1969-1999
Shirley Chisholm Democrat New York 1969-1983
George W. Collins Democrat Illinois 1970-1972
Ron Dellums Democrat California 1971-1998
Ralph Metcalfe Democrat Illinois 1971-1978
Parren Mitchell Democrat Maryland 1971-1987
Charles B. Rangel Democrat New York 1971-present
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Democrat California 1973-1979
Cardiss Collins Democrat Illinois 1973-1997
Barbara Jordan Democrat Texas 1973-1979
Andrew Young Democrat Georgia 1973-1977
Harold Ford, Sr. Democrat Tennessee 1975-1997
Julian C. Dixon Democrat California 1979-2000
William H. Gray, III Democrat Pennsylvania 1979-1991
Mickey Leland Democrat Texas 1979-1989
Bennett M. Stewart Democrat Illinois 1979-1981
George W. Crockett, Jr. Democrat Michigan 1980-1991
Mervyn M. Dymally Democrat California 1981-1993
Gus Savage Democrat Illinois 1981-1993
Harold Washington Democrat Illinois 1981-1983
Katie Hall Democrat Indiana 1982-1985
Major Owens Democrat New York 1983-2007
Ed Towns Democrat New York 1983-present
Alan Wheat Democrat Missouri 1983-1995
Charles Hayes Democrat Illinois 1983-1993
Alton R. Waldon, Jr. Democrat New York 1986-1987
Mike Espy Democrat Mississippi 1987-1993
Floyd H. Flake Democrat New York 1987-1998
John Lewis Democrat Georgia 1987-present
Kweisi Mfume Democrat Maryland 1987-1996
Donald M. Payne Democrat New Jersey 1989-present
Craig Anthony Washington Democrat Texas 1989-1995
Barbara-Rose Collins Democrat Michigan 1991-1997
Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997
William J. Jefferson Democrat Louisiana 1991-2009
Maxine Waters Democrat California 1991-present
Lucien E. Blackwell Democrat Pennsylvania 1991-1995
Eva M. Clayton Democrat North Carolina 1992-2003
Sanford Bishop Democrat Georgia 1993-present
Corrine Brown Democrat Florida 1993-present
Jim Clyburn Democrat South Carolina 1993-present
Cleo Fields Democrat Louisiana 1993-1997
Alcee Hastings Democrat Florida 1993-present
Earl Hilliard Democrat Alabama 1993-2003
Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat Texas 1993-present
Cynthia McKinney Democrat Georgia 1993-2003, 2005-2007
Carrie P. Meek Democrat Florida 1993-2003
Mel Reynolds Democrat Illinois 1993-1995
Bobby Rush Democrat Illinois 1993-present
Robert C. Scott Democrat Virginia 1993-present
Walter Tucker Democrat California 1993-1995
Mel Watt Democrat North Carolina 1993-present
Albert Wynn Democrat Maryland 1993-2008
Bennie Thompson Democrat Mississippi 1993-present
Chaka Fattah Democrat Pennsylvania 1995-present
Sheila Jackson-Lee Democrat Texas 1995-present
J. C. Watts Republican Oklahoma 1995-2003
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democrat Illinois 1995-present
Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat California 1996-2007
Elijah Cummings Democrat Maryland 1996-present
Julia Carson Democrat Indiana 1997-2007
Danny K. Davis Democrat Illinois 1997-present
Harold Ford, Jr. Democrat Tennessee 1997-2007
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Democrat Michigan 1997-present
Gregory W. Meeks Democrat New York 1998-present
Barbara Lee Democrat California 1998-present
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Democrat Ohio 1999-2008
William Lacy Clay, Jr. Democrat Missouri 2001-present
Diane Watson Democrat California 2001-present
Frank Ballance Democrat North Carolina 2003-2004
Artur Davis Democrat Alabama 2003-present
Denise Majette Democrat Georgia 2003-2005
Kendrick Meek Democrat Florida 2003-present
David Scott Democrat Georgia 2003-present
G. K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina 2004-present
Emanuel Cleaver Democrat Missouri 2005-present
Al Green Democrat Texas 2005-present
Gwen Moore Democrat Wisconsin 2005-present
Yvette D. Clarke Democrat New York 2007-present
Keith Ellison Democrat Minnesota 2007-present
Hank Johnson Democrat Georgia 2007-present
Laura Richardson Democrat California 2007-present
André Carson Democrat Indiana 2008-present
Donna Edwards Democrat Maryland 2008-present
Marcia Fudge Democrat Ohio 2008-present

...in allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years...THREE republicans.
93 democrats. ---> Since 1929.
Grand Total: THREE REPUBLICANS.
THREE.

*note again this was compiled pre-2010 elections. Since then a few more added, including the one termer West, and the Senator that was installed by the Governor (not elected as Senator)

Two can play at the game.

Black Republicans in general:

Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor

<list snipped for stupidity>

Your list is a joke.

that there *is* a list is a joke.

If there was one of African-American Democrats, (not just the elected ones) it would run 60,000 pages long here.

Here's a question for your young mind: Why do republicans not want to elect many blacks to powerful positions?

Betcha can't answer without tossing out a few random names while acknowledging democrats elect them 100 fold more than pubblies (which pubs can't do).

 

[paperview]

10 vs 87? Wow! That far left math is in play here again.

No matter which way the 10 voted it would not have countered the 87 Democrats (in the south) that voted it down, thus proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Democrats were the party of NO on civil rights.

Only in strange faith no critical thinking far right reactionary land.

Your analysis is not used in the high school and university text books, never will be.

Let us look at the numbers and percentages:

Vote totals[edit]

Totals are in "Yea–Nay" format:
The original House version: 290–130 (69–31%).
Cloture in the Senate: 71–29 (71–29%).
The Senate version: 73–27 (73–27%).
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289–126 (70–30%).

By party[edit]

The original House version:[19]
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)

Cloture in the Senate:[20]
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

The Senate version:[19]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[19]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)

Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Democrats were the Party of NO!!!

The Southern Conservatives were the party of NO.

 

[Antares]

In alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years since ..oh, 1929, you'd think pubs could have found a way to elect just a few more black folks.

Here is a list of African Americans elected to Congress since 1929.
(compiled before the 2010 election, so it does not reflect current count):
.
Pay special attention to the party affiliation:

Oscar Stanton De Priest Republican Illinois 1929-1935
Arthur W. Mitchell Democrat Illinois 1935-1943
William L. Dawson Democrat Illinois 1943-1970
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Democrat New York 1945-1967, 1967-1971
Charles Diggs Democrat Michigan 1955-1980
Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Democrat Pennsylvania 1958-1979
John Conyers Democrat 1965-present
Bill Clay Democrat Missouri 1969-2001
Louis Stokes Democrat Ohio 1969-1999
Shirley Chisholm Democrat New York 1969-1983
George W. Collins Democrat Illinois 1970-1972
Ron Dellums Democrat California 1971-1998
Ralph Metcalfe Democrat Illinois 1971-1978
Parren Mitchell Democrat Maryland 1971-1987
Charles B. Rangel Democrat New York 1971-present
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Democrat California 1973-1979
Cardiss Collins Democrat Illinois 1973-1997
Barbara Jordan Democrat Texas 1973-1979
Andrew Young Democrat Georgia 1973-1977
Harold Ford, Sr. Democrat Tennessee 1975-1997
Julian C. Dixon Democrat California 1979-2000
William H. Gray, III Democrat Pennsylvania 1979-1991
Mickey Leland Democrat Texas 1979-1989
Bennett M. Stewart Democrat Illinois 1979-1981
George W. Crockett, Jr. Democrat Michigan 1980-1991
Mervyn M. Dymally Democrat California 1981-1993
Gus Savage Democrat Illinois 1981-1993
Harold Washington Democrat Illinois 1981-1983
Katie Hall Democrat Indiana 1982-1985
Major Owens Democrat New York 1983-2007
Ed Towns Democrat New York 1983-present
Alan Wheat Democrat Missouri 1983-1995
Charles Hayes Democrat Illinois 1983-1993
Alton R. Waldon, Jr. Democrat New York 1986-1987
Mike Espy Democrat Mississippi 1987-1993
Floyd H. Flake Democrat New York 1987-1998
John Lewis Democrat Georgia 1987-present
Kweisi Mfume Democrat Maryland 1987-1996
Donald M. Payne Democrat New Jersey 1989-present
Craig Anthony Washington Democrat Texas 1989-1995
Barbara-Rose Collins Democrat Michigan 1991-1997
Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997
William J. Jefferson Democrat Louisiana 1991-2009
Maxine Waters Democrat California 1991-present
Lucien E. Blackwell Democrat Pennsylvania 1991-1995
Eva M. Clayton Democrat North Carolina 1992-2003
Sanford Bishop Democrat Georgia 1993-present
Corrine Brown Democrat Florida 1993-present
Jim Clyburn Democrat South Carolina 1993-present
Cleo Fields Democrat Louisiana 1993-1997
Alcee Hastings Democrat Florida 1993-present
Earl Hilliard Democrat Alabama 1993-2003
Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat Texas 1993-present
Cynthia McKinney Democrat Georgia 1993-2003, 2005-2007
Carrie P. Meek Democrat Florida 1993-2003
Mel Reynolds Democrat Illinois 1993-1995
Bobby Rush Democrat Illinois 1993-present
Robert C. Scott Democrat Virginia 1993-present
Walter Tucker Democrat California 1993-1995
Mel Watt Democrat North Carolina 1993-present
Albert Wynn Democrat Maryland 1993-2008
Bennie Thompson Democrat Mississippi 1993-present
Chaka Fattah Democrat Pennsylvania 1995-present
Sheila Jackson-Lee Democrat Texas 1995-present
J. C. Watts Republican Oklahoma 1995-2003
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democrat Illinois 1995-present
Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat California 1996-2007
Elijah Cummings Democrat Maryland 1996-present
Julia Carson Democrat Indiana 1997-2007
Danny K. Davis Democrat Illinois 1997-present
Harold Ford, Jr. Democrat Tennessee 1997-2007
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Democrat Michigan 1997-present
Gregory W. Meeks Democrat New York 1998-present
Barbara Lee Democrat California 1998-present
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Democrat Ohio 1999-2008
William Lacy Clay, Jr. Democrat Missouri 2001-present
Diane Watson Democrat California 2001-present
Frank Ballance Democrat North Carolina 2003-2004
Artur Davis Democrat Alabama 2003-present
Denise Majette Democrat Georgia 2003-2005
Kendrick Meek Democrat Florida 2003-present
David Scott Democrat Georgia 2003-present
G. K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina 2004-present
Emanuel Cleaver Democrat Missouri 2005-present
Al Green Democrat Texas 2005-present
Gwen Moore Democrat Wisconsin 2005-present
Yvette D. Clarke Democrat New York 2007-present
Keith Ellison Democrat Minnesota 2007-present
Hank Johnson Democrat Georgia 2007-present
Laura Richardson Democrat California 2007-present
André Carson Democrat Indiana 2008-present
Donna Edwards Democrat Maryland 2008-present
Marcia Fudge Democrat Ohio 2008-present

...in allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years...THREE republicans.
93 democrats. ---> Since 1929.
Grand Total: THREE REPUBLICANS.
THREE.

*note again this was compiled pre-2010 elections. Since then a few more added, including the one termer West, and the Senator that was installed by the Governor (not elected as Senator)

Two can play at the game.

Black Republicans in general:

Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor

<list snipped for stupidity>

Your list is a joke.

that there *is* a list is a joke.

If there was one of African-American Democrats, (not just the elected ones) it would run 60,000 pages long here.

Here's a question for your young mind: Why do republicans not want to elect many blacks to powerful positions?

Betcha can't answer without tossing out a few random names while acknowledging democrats elect them 100 fold more than pubblies (which pubs can't do).

Another "racist" darkie?

 

[rightwinger]

The Left has one card, the Race card...most folks are sick to death of both whiny assed whites and blacks playing it.

Nobody has been owned for 200 years..get the fuck over it.

There is much more than that..

There is Republican arrogance towards women, Hispanics, gays, teachers, workers, the educated......

 

[rightwinger]

In alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years since ..oh, 1929, you'd think pubs could have found a way to elect just a few more black folks.

Here is a list of African Americans elected to Congress since 1929.
(compiled before the 2010 election, so it does not reflect current count):
.
Pay special attention to the party affiliation:

Oscar Stanton De Priest Republican Illinois 1929-1935
Arthur W. Mitchell Democrat Illinois 1935-1943
William L. Dawson Democrat Illinois 1943-1970
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Democrat New York 1945-1967, 1967-1971
Charles Diggs Democrat Michigan 1955-1980
Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Democrat Pennsylvania 1958-1979
John Conyers Democrat 1965-present
Bill Clay Democrat Missouri 1969-2001
Louis Stokes Democrat Ohio 1969-1999
Shirley Chisholm Democrat New York 1969-1983
George W. Collins Democrat Illinois 1970-1972
Ron Dellums Democrat California 1971-1998
Ralph Metcalfe Democrat Illinois 1971-1978
Parren Mitchell Democrat Maryland 1971-1987
Charles B. Rangel Democrat New York 1971-present
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Democrat California 1973-1979
Cardiss Collins Democrat Illinois 1973-1997
Barbara Jordan Democrat Texas 1973-1979
Andrew Young Democrat Georgia 1973-1977
Harold Ford, Sr. Democrat Tennessee 1975-1997
Julian C. Dixon Democrat California 1979-2000
William H. Gray, III Democrat Pennsylvania 1979-1991
Mickey Leland Democrat Texas 1979-1989
Bennett M. Stewart Democrat Illinois 1979-1981
George W. Crockett, Jr. Democrat Michigan 1980-1991
Mervyn M. Dymally Democrat California 1981-1993
Gus Savage Democrat Illinois 1981-1993
Harold Washington Democrat Illinois 1981-1983
Katie Hall Democrat Indiana 1982-1985
Major Owens Democrat New York 1983-2007
Ed Towns Democrat New York 1983-present
Alan Wheat Democrat Missouri 1983-1995
Charles Hayes Democrat Illinois 1983-1993
Alton R. Waldon, Jr. Democrat New York 1986-1987
Mike Espy Democrat Mississippi 1987-1993
Floyd H. Flake Democrat New York 1987-1998
John Lewis Democrat Georgia 1987-present
Kweisi Mfume Democrat Maryland 1987-1996
Donald M. Payne Democrat New Jersey 1989-present
Craig Anthony Washington Democrat Texas 1989-1995
Barbara-Rose Collins Democrat Michigan 1991-1997
Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997
William J. Jefferson Democrat Louisiana 1991-2009
Maxine Waters Democrat California 1991-present
Lucien E. Blackwell Democrat Pennsylvania 1991-1995
Eva M. Clayton Democrat North Carolina 1992-2003
Sanford Bishop Democrat Georgia 1993-present
Corrine Brown Democrat Florida 1993-present
Jim Clyburn Democrat South Carolina 1993-present
Cleo Fields Democrat Louisiana 1993-1997
Alcee Hastings Democrat Florida 1993-present
Earl Hilliard Democrat Alabama 1993-2003
Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat Texas 1993-present
Cynthia McKinney Democrat Georgia 1993-2003, 2005-2007
Carrie P. Meek Democrat Florida 1993-2003
Mel Reynolds Democrat Illinois 1993-1995
Bobby Rush Democrat Illinois 1993-present
Robert C. Scott Democrat Virginia 1993-present
Walter Tucker Democrat California 1993-1995
Mel Watt Democrat North Carolina 1993-present
Albert Wynn Democrat Maryland 1993-2008
Bennie Thompson Democrat Mississippi 1993-present
Chaka Fattah Democrat Pennsylvania 1995-present
Sheila Jackson-Lee Democrat Texas 1995-present
J. C. Watts Republican Oklahoma 1995-2003
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democrat Illinois 1995-present
Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat California 1996-2007
Elijah Cummings Democrat Maryland 1996-present
Julia Carson Democrat Indiana 1997-2007
Danny K. Davis Democrat Illinois 1997-present
Harold Ford, Jr. Democrat Tennessee 1997-2007
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Democrat Michigan 1997-present
Gregory W. Meeks Democrat New York 1998-present
Barbara Lee Democrat California 1998-present
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Democrat Ohio 1999-2008
William Lacy Clay, Jr. Democrat Missouri 2001-present
Diane Watson Democrat California 2001-present
Frank Ballance Democrat North Carolina 2003-2004
Artur Davis Democrat Alabama 2003-present
Denise Majette Democrat Georgia 2003-2005
Kendrick Meek Democrat Florida 2003-present
David Scott Democrat Georgia 2003-present
G. K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina 2004-present
Emanuel Cleaver Democrat Missouri 2005-present
Al Green Democrat Texas 2005-present
Gwen Moore Democrat Wisconsin 2005-present
Yvette D. Clarke Democrat New York 2007-present
Keith Ellison Democrat Minnesota 2007-present
Hank Johnson Democrat Georgia 2007-present
Laura Richardson Democrat California 2007-present
André Carson Democrat Indiana 2008-present
Donna Edwards Democrat Maryland 2008-present
Marcia Fudge Democrat Ohio 2008-present

...in allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years...THREE republicans.
93 democrats. ---> Since 1929.
Grand Total: THREE REPUBLICANS.
THREE.

*note again this was compiled pre-2010 elections. Since then a few more added, including the one termer West, and the Senator that was installed by the Governor (not elected as Senator)

Two can play at the game.

Black Republicans in general:

Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor

<list snipped for stupidity>

Your list is a joke.

that there *is* a list is a joke.

If there was one of African-American Democrats, (not just the elected ones) it would run 60,000 pages long here.

Here's a question for your young mind: Why do republicans not want to elect many blacks to powerful positions?

Betcha can't answer without tossing out a few random names while acknowledging democrats elect them 100 fold more than pubblies (which pubs can't do).

Republicans love to play the.....Look! We got blacks too!

Actually voting for them is more than we can ask. Look what they did to Hermann Cain when he actually started to lead in he polls

 

[paperview]

The Left has one card, the Race card...most folks are sick to death of both whiny assed whites and blacks playing it.

Nobody has been owned for 200 years..get the fuck over it.

Is this the new republican math?

 

[paperview]

Two can play at the game.

Black Republicans in general:

Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor

<list snipped for stupidity>

Your list is a joke.

that there *is* a list is a joke.

If there was one of African-American Democrats, (not just the elected ones) it would run 60,000 pages long here.

Here's a question for your young mind: Why do republicans not want to elect many blacks to powerful positions?

Betcha can't answer without tossing out a few random names while acknowledging democrats elect them 100 fold more than pubblies (which pubs can't do).

Republicans love to play the.....Look! We got blacks too!

Actually voting for them is more than we can ask. Look what they did to Hermann Cain when he actually started to lead in he polls

I think one of the more illuminating insights I've ever seen on why there are not more black republicans is this letter I read, back in 2003.

It's from Shannon Reeves. He was Secretary of the California Republican Party and was the highest-ranking African-American Party official elected in the State.

He wrote this open letter to his party. Open Letter to the Board of the California Republican Party
By Shannon Reeves Thursday, January 09, 2003
To: Members of the Board of Directors of the California Republican Party

Dear Colleagues: As many of us have learned in recent media reports, Vice Chairman Bill Back distributed an article entitled, ''What if the South had Won the Civil War?'' -- an article that concludes that problems with race relations in America are the result of slaves being freed through Reconstruction, and black migration out of the south as a result of desegregation. This article trivialized slavery and it trivialized the impacts of slavery on my ancestors and people of African decent. The notion that this country would be better off if my ancestors had remained enslaved, and considered less than whole people, is personally offensive, abhorrent, and vile.

It is particularly offensive because my own party's vice chairman distributed this bigoted propaganda in an official CRP newsletter.

Those of us in leadership positions have a responsibility to teach, raise awareness, and encourage thoughtful debate. We also have a responsibility to do so in an honest and ethical manner. Had distribution of the article in question been prefaced by a disclaimer that the editors didn't necessarily agree with the author's views, however, and felt the article had value for the debate it might create on federalism, I might have accepted the vice chairman's position in his January 4 statement that his ''newsletter is a forum for varying political discussion.'' As reported in the same day's Contra Costa Times, when asked several different times if he was offended by the article, Bill Back sidestepped the question and refused to answer. The lack of any such disclaimer or direct and honest response to the reporter can only lead me to one conclusion that Bill Back is sympathetic to the author's views. Why else would he distribute an obscure article that has absolutely no relevance to California, nor to Republican politics in his official California Republican Party newsletter?

I am sick and tired of being embarrassed by elected Republican officials who have no sensitivity for issues that alienate whole segments of our population. Republican leaders who consort with the Council of Conservative Citizens, highlight stump speeches at Bob Jones University, reminisce about segregationist campaigns, and sympathize with the bigoted views - and the very real possibility that others in our party affiliate with the Free Congress Foundation and groups with similar offensive ideology - perpetuate broad public opinion that Republicans harbor racist and bigoted ideals. Bill Back's conduct is the most current embarrassment to our party. His decision to distribute bigoted information demonstrates a lack of judgment and political acumen that's not appropriate for someone in a leadership position, especially as vice chairman of the California Republican Party.
This embarrassment is different for a black Republican.

Not only do I have to sit in rooms and behave professionally towards Republicans who share this heinous ideology, I have to go home to a hostile environment where I'm called an ''Uncle Tom'' and maligned as a sell-out to my community because I'm a member of the Republican Party.

When I go to the barbershop on Friday or my church on Sunday--wherever I go in the black community--I have to explain that Trent Lott's affiliation with the Council of Conservative Citizens doesn't represent all Republicans, that it was just an isolated incident. When they then question me about the scores of Republicans who visit Bob Jones University, I tell them that Republicans visit black universities, too.

When they ask how I can serve in a party where the second in command, the man seeking our top spot distributes bigoted literature, I tell them that Bill Back doesn't represent the grassroots of this party--he's just one man. Black Republicans are expected to provide window dressing and cover to prove that this is not a racist party, yet our own leadership continues to act otherwise.

People judge people by their experience of them, and by their actions, and when those actions do not match their words, actions become the more honest means by which to measure a person.

I don't talk about what it's like for me to be a black Republican, and what I live through day to day because I've made a choice to be true to and fight for my beliefs. But I think the time has come for those of you in this party to understand what I encounter from other Republicans.

Maybe it will help you understand how hard this fight really is--and how insurmountable the ill-conceived actions of Republican leaders like Bill Back make it.

When I travel to speak at Republican conferences and events around the country, wandering through hotels, convention centers and social clubs, as I approach the rooms where I'm scheduled to speak, I am often told by Republicans that I must be in the wrong place.

>>>While boarding a shuttle bus to a national convention a few years ago, an attendee who was already on the bus introduced himself to another white guest who was boarding, took one look at me and, in an attempt to be helpful, told me I was on the wrong bus.
As a Bush delegate at the 2000 convention in Philadelphia, I proudly wore my delegate's badge and RNC lapel pin as I worked the convention.

Regardless of the fact that I was obviously a delegate prominently displaying my credentials, no less than six times did white delegates dismissively tell me to fetch them a taxi or carry their luggage.

Imagine how our Republican women would have felt if they had been mistaken for hotel maids. These people didn't see that I wasn't wearing a uniform; all they saw was a black face and they made an assumption. I am a proud Republican, one who has traveled this great country from Harlem to Honolulu to promote the Republican message. I've campaigned from Inyo to Siskiyou.

Wherever I've been asked to go, I've shown up for this party, speaking to literally thousands of groups. And through it all, I've met thousands upon thousands of grassroots volunteers who have welcomed me, given me good advice, prayers, love, and support. ..."

It's archived now, but the Freepers have a copy posted of the letter: Open Letter to the Board of the California Republican Party

Certainly plenty of republicans do not feel this way about blacks; still one wonders why there are not more black republicans.

 

[Pogo]

Only in strange faith no critical thinking far right reactionary land.

Your analysis is not used in the high school and university text books, never will be.

Let us look at the numbers and percentages:

Vote totals[edit]

Totals are in "Yea–Nay" format:
The original House version: 290–130 (69–31%).
Cloture in the Senate: 71–29 (71–29%).
The Senate version: 73–27 (73–27%).
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289–126 (70–30%).

By party[edit]

The original House version:[19]
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)

Cloture in the Senate:[20]
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

The Senate version:[19]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[19]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)

Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Democrats were the Party of NO!!!

The Southern Conservatives were the party of NO.

Indeed. The section of the same page that was left out as inconvenient:

The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)

The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)

House North: 283 yes, 33 no
House South: 7 yes, 97 no

Senate North: 72 yes, 6 no
Senate South: 1 yes, 21 no

NOW you have a pattern.
Add to that the mass migration of those Southern Democrats to the Republican party starting with Strom Thurmond in that same year, and you also have a glaring inconvenience for the history revisionistas.

 

[Antares]

The Left has one card, the Race card...most folks are sick to death of both whiny assed whites and blacks playing it.

Nobody has been owned for 200 years..get the fuck over it.

Is this the new republican math?

Nope, its the modern version of grow the fuck up we aren't going to give you shit because 200 years ago you felt "disrespected".

Nobody gives a shit that your great great great great great whoever the fuck came over on a slave ship because Shaka Zulu sold their ass to the "white man".

 

[JakeStarkey]

Let us look at the numbers and percentages:

Vote totals[edit]

Totals are in "Yea–Nay" format:
The original House version: 290–130 (69–31%).
Cloture in the Senate: 71–29 (71–29%).
The Senate version: 73–27 (73–27%).
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289–126 (70–30%).

By party[edit]

The original House version:[19]
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)

Cloture in the Senate:[20]
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

The Senate version:[19]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[19]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)

Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Democrats were the Party of NO!!!

The Southern Conservatives were the party of NO.

Indeed. The section of the same page that was left out as inconvenient:

The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)

The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)

House North: 283 yes, 33 no
House South: 7 yes, 97 no

Senate North: 72 yes, 6 no
Senate South: 1 yes, 21 no

NOW you have a pattern.

Yup, it was good northern and western liberals, moderates, and conservatives against bad southern reactionaries of both parties.

 

[paperview]

The Left has one card, the Race card...most folks are sick to death of both whiny assed whites and blacks playing it.

Nobody has been owned for 200 years..get the fuck over it.

Is this the new republican math?

Nope, its the modern version of grow the fuck up we aren't going to give you shit because 200 years ago you felt "disrespected".

Nobody gives a shit that your great great great great great whoever the fuck came over on a slave ship because Shaka Zulu sold their ass to the "white man".

Slavery abolished in the South, by FORCE: 1865.
Slavery by another name in the South continued till until 1951, when Peonage and in essence, re-enslavement was made illegal.

After the Civil War, the Southerners literally got away with murder for generations upon generation, and yes, still owned blacks. Still enslaved them.

Not much has been talked about the slavery that existed after the Civil War, how the South wrote laws that would put black people in prisons for even doing so much as spitting. And all it took was for one white person to say you did it.

The law said they could put you (you being generally blacks) in prison if you couldn't prove at any given time you had a job...it was a crime if you spoke in the company of white women, it was a crime if a person walked beside a railroad, it was a crime to sell your farm goods after dark, if you spoke too loudly...all these with the express purpose to imprison and use as free labor the labor the South lost after the war --

the free labor that was fully 50% of the South's economy before the war.
Think about that.

It actually became a more profitable system for the exploiter of this free labor & worse, in some cases than slavery. As if that's possible, with the brutality of chattel slavery. With no title of ownership, their value was even less than a slave.

This puts a fist right between the eyes of those who say slavery would have just died out, or that g-g-g-g-g-garbage. BTW, ex-slaves were still living when my parents were teenagers. Know your math.

And this slavery by another name went on for some 80 years after the Civil War.

 

[Antares]

Nobody cares kid...move on.

Educate yourself, get a good job and move on.

 

[g5000]

This is a nation of Rachel Jeantells living by the creed of "If its free, its for me!" The Democrats have long recognized and capitalized on this. Barack Obama took it to a higher level.

At Loyola University in 1998 he laid down his plans to gain the presidency ten years later: "Those people receiving government welfare, along with the working poor, constitute a critical mass, that if manipulated properly, could lead to placing a Communist in office and maintaining him there for a considerable time"

[MENTION=31631]bitterlyclingin[/MENTION]

Source this, please.

It's bogus.

 

[Antares]

You did know that "blacks" were the biggest suppliers of "blacks" to whitey.....didn't you?

 

[paperview]

This is a stunning figure, in bold below: "It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century."

Just incredible.

"Southern states passed "Black Codes" to control the movement of freedmen and to try to gain their labor for planters. They often declared as vagrant someone who was unemployed, even if between jobs. They tried to restrict the movement of freedmen between rural areas and cities, to between towns. Under such laws, local officials arbitrarily arrested tens of thousands of freedmen, and charged them with fines and the court costs of their cases.

White merchants, farmers or business owners could pay their debts, and the prisoner had to work off the debt. Prisoners were "sold" or leased as forced laborers to owners and operators of coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations, with the revenues for their labor going to the states. Thousands of other African Americans were seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude.

Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations looking for cheap labor. Black men, women and children were forced to labor without compensation. Their labor was repeatedly bought and sold for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.

Whites were seldom prosecuted for holding black workers against their will in peonage. Southern states and private businesses boomed with this free labor. It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century.

Overseers and owners often used severe deprivation, beatings, whippings and other abuse as "discipline" against the workers."

Peonage

Here is a clip from Moyers talking with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, Slavery by Another Name:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCb4dcMkC5Q&amp;list=PLC7AED4DA567FDC38"]Bill Moyers Slavery Book Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[paperview]

Great. Another Stormfronter,

 

[Pogo]

You did know that "blacks" were the biggest suppliers of "blacks" to whitey.....didn't you?

 

[g5000]

This is the source of the completely bogus Obama quote from bitterlyclingin: The Lesson Of The Plucked Chicken - Democracy Forums

[Just as Joe Stalin demonstrated or Barack elucidated at Loyola University back in 1998: Those people on welfare or receiving some form of Government aid, along with the working poor, constitute a critical mass, that if manipulated properly could lead to placing a Communist in office and maintaining him there for a considerable time]

Busted.

 

[Antares]

You did know that "blacks" were the biggest suppliers of "blacks" to whitey.....didn't you?

LOL....educate yourself kid...Shaka was the big dog.