Originally Posted by raymor

Quoting from YOUR source, wikipedia:


I understand you WISH that the democrats supported civil rights, but the fact is they strongly opposed civil rights and filibustered the bill.

Strom Thurmond, the democrat leader in the senate who personally filibustered the civil rights act for 24 hours and 18 minutes, was the continually reelected by democrats for decades until he passed away in 2003.

Thurmond served for decades along side his friend Robert Byrd, another democrat senator. The democrats weren't the first to elect Byrd, though. He first election victory was bring elected to a leadership position in the KKK.

I really do understand you want the democrats to be the good guys, just as any sports fan wants their chosen team to be great. The simple fact, though, is that the democrats were in violent opposition to civil rights, in 1964 just as they had been since 1875 and before. You're a union fan and that's fine, but the fact is the unions of 1964 didn't want negros taking their jobs.

If it's THAT important to you to have your team be on the right side, maybe it's time to consider if you were tricked and it's time to switch teams. If you want to be on the side that passed the civil rights acts rather than the side that filibustered them, welcome. Here's your elephant.

Mayve the democrats have changed?
The dems elected the KKK official Robert Byrd to the senate from 1959 until he died last year. Had Byrd, the democrat leader in the senate changed? As recently as 2001 he was still using the word "n i g g e r" in debate on the senate floor. That's the democrat leader, a man who thinks it's ok to talk about "n i g g e r s" while debating legislation even these days.

I know you want to be on the right side of these issues. You can be. Come on over.