LOLOLOLQuote from the man who 2aguy calls a fool- but whom the rest of America calls a Civil Rights hero.
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Why does 2aguy consider Goldwater to be a Civil Rights hero- but African Americans don't.
For the same reason- Goldwater voted against the pivotal Civil Rights legislation of the 20th century.
This is who King supported....
Lyndon Johnson opposed every civil rights proposal considered in his first 20 years as lawmaker
"He had been a congressman, beginning in 1937, for eleven years, and for eleven years he had voted against every civil rights bill –
against not only legislation aimed at ending the poll tax and segregation in the armed services but even against legislation aimed at ending lynching: a one hundred percent record," Caro wrote.
"Running for the Senate in 1948, he had assailed President" Harry "Truman’s entire civil rights program (‘an effort to set up a police state’)…Until 1957, in the Senate, as in the House, his record – by that time a twenty-year record – against civil rights had been consistent," Caro wrote.
This is who King voted against......
Barry M. Goldwater: The Most Consequential Loser in American Politics
Goldwater treated all people the same. As a private citizen, he flew mercy missions to Navaho reservations, never asking for recognition or accepting payment. He felt that “the red man seemed as much—if not more—a part of Arizona and America as any white or black person.”[20] Moreover, a few weeks after Goldwater was discharged from the Army in November 1945, Democratic Arizona Governor Sidney Preston Osborn asked him to organize the Arizona Air National Guard. One of Goldwater’s first recommendations, soon approved, was to desegregate the unit. Goldwater’s integration of the state’s Air National Guard took place more than two years before President Harry Truman integrated the U.S. armed forces.
Goldwater was an early member of the Arizona chapters of both the NAACP and the National Urban League, even making up the latter’s operating deficit when it was getting started. Later as a Senator, he desegregated the Senate cafeteria in 1953, demanding that his black legislative assistant, Kathrine Maxwell, be served along with every other Senate employee after learning she had been denied service.
In the mid-1970s, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, investigating improper operations of the intelligence community in the United States, proposed that transcripts of the FBI tapes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged indiscretions be published. An outraged Goldwater declared he would not be a party to destroying King’s reputation and strode out of the committee room. A fellow Senator recalled that Goldwater’s protest “injected some common sense into the proceedings,” and the electronic surveillance transcripts were not released.[21]
That his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was based on constitutional grounds and not political considerations was underscored in the final week of the fall campaign.
Speaking in Columbia, South Carolina, Goldwater condemned segregation and declared that government must treat “all men as equal in the arena of law and civil order.”[22] He pledged if elected President to implement all provisions of the act. His forthright pro-civil rights speech was televised on 87 stations throughout the South.
NPR Wrong on Goldwater '64, Civil Rights, Say 4 Who Were There
As for the Republican nominee's position on the Civil Rights Act, Goldwater had said he would vote for passage if Section II on public accommodations and Section VII on equal employment opportunity were removed. With his view reinforced by a detailed memorandum from Phoenix lawyer and future Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Goldwater felt these sections were unconstitutional, were unenforceable without a federal police force, and would lead to the creation of racial quotas and affirmative action.
"He was absolutely right about [the two sections of the Civil Rights Act] and they did lead to precisely what Goldwater and most conservatives were afraid of," said Tom Winter, then executive editor of Human Events, who would join Ryskind as its co-owner a year later. As for the "extremism in the defense of liberty" speech, Winter recalled watching it from a San Francisco restaurant "and cheering it because it was clearly about freedom and fighting communism. I certainly didn't think it had anything to do with race."
So tell us why King voted for the racist and not the actual Civil Rights Hero.....
You're actually criticizing Martin Luther King Jr. for supporting the president who delivered civil rights for blacks.
You really can't get any dumber. You've reached your apex.
He delivered more power to the federal government....and fought against Civil Rights for blacks his entire career..
I can't even tell if this confusing statement is 2aguy attacking Martin Luther King Jr.- or LBJ.
Considering that LBJ was involved in passing the only significant Civil Rights legislation in the last 100 years- in 1957, in 1960, in 1964 and in 1965- it would seem that if he is speaking about LBJ- he would be lying.
But then again- LBJ was working to help African Americans.
And that pisses 2aguy off.
Shit stain.....Goldwater voted for all of the Civil Rights act..
Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act- LBJ supported it- and signed it into law
HR. 7152. PASSAGE. -- Senate Vote #409 -- Jun 19, 1964
LBJ cosponsored- and voted for the 1960 Civil Rights Act.- I can't find Goldwater's vote.
Goldwater- and LBJ- both voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act
HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. -- Senate Vote #75 -- Aug 7, 1957
Considering that LBJ was involved in passing the only significant Civil Rights legislation in the last 100 years- in 1957, in 1960, in 1964 and in 1965- it would seem that if he is speaking about LBJ- he would be lying.
But then again- LBJ was working to help African Americans.
And that pisses 2aguy off