Posted on 01/06/2019 8:31:12 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Coldwater was NOT against civil rights!!! He was opposed to the 1964 Civil Rights Act he felt it was way too coercive, violated states rights, violated right of association & would lead to quotas. (AFTER 54 YEARS TELL ME HE WAS WRONG!). In his first year in the Senate he desegregated the Senate cafeteria, insisting that his black legislative assistant, Kathrine Maxwell, be served along with every other Senate employee. Does that sound like someone against civil rights for blacks or anyone? He was a victim of Rat & media establishment propaganda that you apparently bought into. He & his family through their department stores hired and catered to anyone regardless of race, creed etc. Also remember Goldwater was of Polish Jewish descent. His grandfather ( maybe it was his great-grandfather!) converted to Christianity back in the days of frontier Arizona. We ad a nation would have been better off if we had heeded some of his warnings & advice.
Makes sense to them, I guess. I think they think the great identity change took place with Lyndon Johnson (another good old boy racist).
Goldwater voted against the so-called (1964) Civil Right Act because he thought it was an unconstitutional overreach by the federal government.
Your blanket comment that Goldwater was against civil rights is interesting. May we see your data?
That was the same thing my EX B-I-L spouted and he lives in MS. His favorite POTUS before Obama was Carter.
Dixiecrats, Dixiecrats, Dixiecrats as far as the eye can see.
Good movie.
That is quite different then supporting the enslaving and trading of human beings. So do you think that made him a racist?
More importantly though, I didn’t see whatever show the original poster posted. My statement was neither in support of an attack of President Lincoln. I was talking about the creation of the Republican Party, and what the catalyst was for that creation. That it succeeded in the elimination of slavery for which it was created to end.
Goldwater was against the civil rights act of 1964 and that was all it took to flip the white south to the Republicans and to flip the blacks of the USA to the Democrats. That is the truth. I was there in the south and saw it happen.
A Freemason (Pike) started the KKK.
His is the only freestanding (not enclosed) statue inside the District of Columbia.
Here’s he Freemason’s attempt to dismiss the issue (warning - masonic content)
http://www.masonicinfo.com/pikestatue.htm
Goldwater sent blacks to the Dems at a much faster pace than was the case with the new deal. Goldwaters being against the civil rights act of 1964 was the main reason for white southerners to go Republican. And for blacks all over the nation to be Democrats. 1964 Goldwater was a pivotal mistake for the Republican Party.
You do know the U.S. constitution - the one Lincoln twice took an oath to preserve, protect and defend - enshrined slavery.
Beyond that, President Lincoln in his first inaugural address said of the proposed Corwin amendment which would have protected slavery from being repealed by constitutional amendment: “I have no objection.”
As to your inquiry about Lincoln being a racist . . . I assume you are asking if Lincoln is a racist based on the post-post-modern definition of the word.
Yes. If Lincoln were to salute the American flag today he would be branded a racist by the people whose job is to find and identify racists.
If you are asking if Lincoln would have been considered a racist in his day - no, I don't think so. For one thing, the word “racist” had not yet been invented. And if the word had existed there would have been no economic or political advantage for a northern or southern opponent of Lincoln to brand him a racist.
So the "mistake" by Goldwater caused white southerners to go Republican placing the electoral votes of Texas (36), Florida (29), Georgia (16), North Carolina (15), Tennessee (11), South Carolina (9), Alabama (9), Louisiana (8), Mississippi (6), and Arkansas (6) into Trump's column and not Hilary's.
And that is bad how?
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