[Pelham]

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan both openly opposed the 1964 Civil Rights bill. Virtually every conservative who wrote for Buckley’s National Review at the time also opposed it. So are they racists in your book? The liberal Rockefeller Republicans are the ones who joined Lyndon Johnson to pass it. Your heroes?

[jmacusa]

And when LBJ signed the bill he said “If this bill passes I’ll have them n****er’s voting Democrat for the next two hundred years’’. By the way, LBJ’s party wouldn’t pass the bill. He had to turn to Everett Dirksen(R. Wisconsin) Senate Minority leader to get the bill passed.

[ontap]

Opposing the 1964 civil rights act has nothing to do with the Klan....there was plenty wrong with the 1964 civil rights act that had nothing to do with race. It was the start of the race baiting we have going on right now. It stated nothing that wasn't already in the constitution as far as voting goes. It was written to give democrats decades of talking points and to cover their asses for past atrocities. They could not even get a majority of democrats to vote for it.