[maggief]

This topic should be discussed with JUAN WILLIAMS on Fox News Sunday. He wrote the book "Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary."

Here is a link to the book on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812920287/102-8468846-8297736?v=glance&vi=reviews

And an excerpt from the book:

And yet a strong undercurrent of criticism of Marshall--he was unqualified, lazy, too liberal--continued. Marshall came under the most brutal attack from segregationists, who did not want an integrationist on the Court. President Johnson's political strategy to have Marshall quickly and easily confirmed was crumbling. And even Marshall's tough-mindedness, his amazing will to win, seemed to be overmatched.

Hearings for most Supreme Court nominees began within a week of the nomination. Byron White, President Kennedy's first candidate for the Court, had been nominated and confirmed within eight days. Abe Fortas, President Johnson's first, had to wait only fourteen days. Thurgood Marshall was different. It would be seventy-eight days before his name would come up for a vote of Senate confirmation.

In the two and a half months between the nomination and the vote on Marshall, his record as a lawyer, his writings, his drinking, the women he slept with, and his family came under the intense scrutiny of FBI and Senate investigations. Sen. Robert Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, wrote to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, asking if there was information about Marshall's ties to Communists. Another senator focused on uncovering evidence that Marshall hated whites; other senators loaded up on detailed legal questions, hoping to reveal gaps in Marshall's knowledge of the law that would disqualify him for the high court.

[.45MAN]

Byrd, Kerry, and Kennedy are embarrassments to the democratic party but it shows just how low the party is. The Democratic party is an embarrassment to the American people and to the American government. I wouldn't be surprised if Byrd signed his papers with an X.

[xzins]

well, exactly what would the mainstream press do if a black female Democrat were blocked from taking a high Cabinet post by, say, Trent Lott?

This "what if" argument of comparison between Republicans & Democrats has borne no fruit up to this point. It is simply overlooked by the MSM and everyone else, apparently.

That doesn't make it untrue...just ineffective.

What the republicans really need is an avenue of communication DIRECTLY to the black (and other minority) communities that goes over the heads of the MSM.

I'm willing to bet that not one in ten black americans know that the senior, powerful democrat in the US Senate is the former grand kleagle of the KKK, and that he has opposed every civil rights initiative that ever came down the pike.

It's time to open a REAL media front in the minority community.

[dirtboy]

BYRD SHAMES THE SENATE

And that's not an easy accomplishment nowadays...

[Arpege92]

Maybe we should send that old Byrd some new bed sheets.

[Sal]

It's time to change the sheets and end the lynchings.

[melbell]

nastly old cracker

uh oh...did I just say something racist? Well you see...there are white crackers, and there are black crackers...we'll say those are the wheat crackers...I just wish everybody would quit talking about race issues.

/a little bit of sarcasm

[Charlespg]

""Now, Byrd might not be a racist today."

Yea and bozo isn't a Clown

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