Posted on 07/18/2013 3:10:58 PM PDT by onyx
Addressing the annual NAACP convention in Orlando, Fla., Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that opponents of Obamacare are the same kind of people who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Her comments on Tuesday came one day before the Republican-led House votes to delay key provisions of the law.
“The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing health disparities since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was also enacted,” Sebelius said. “That significance hits especially close to home. My father was a congressman from Cincinnati who voted for each of those critical civil rights laws, and who represented a district near where the late Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lived and preached.
“The same arguments against change, the same fear and misinformation that opponents used then are the same ones opponents are spreading now. ‘This won’t work,’ ‘Slow down,’ ‘Let’s wait,’ they say.
“But history shows that upholding our founding principles demands continuous work toward a more perfect union…And it requires the kind of work that the NAACP has done for more than a century to move us forward.
“You showed it in the fight against lynching and the fight for desegregation. You showed it by ensuring inalienable rights are secured in the courtroom and at the ballot box. And you showed it by supporting a health law 100 years in the making.
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She just called every republican a racist. Yet not one will point out that the democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act.
I’ve haven’t seen someone try to stir up blacks like this since.....never! George Wallace didn’t try this hard to stir up whites when he talked about “block” voting.
BTTT
Thanks very much, and GOOD to see you!
You’re right.
Anybody know the pub/RAT House and Senate vote count on the original Voting Rights Act from 1965?
My guess is that if you were to ask 10% of the RATs in this country, less than -1% would know who the Hell Robert “Sheets” Byrd was let alone that Ol’ Bobby Boy was a Klan Grand Poo Bah or whatever the Hell they’re called.
Anytime anyone disagrees with Chairman Maobama or anyone of his adminstration about anything he is “RACIST!!!!”
Personally speaking, I believe opponents of Obamacare are true opponents of slavery, i.e. making doctors work for free against their will via the force of the state.
Then I guess “racist” is what I’ll be like my fellow “racists” Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Alan Keyes.
A man after my own heart and someone I would enjoy sharing a cold beverage, and discussing this with.
Comrade, you forget, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
No she is not, she is a Catholic in name only, like Pelousey, and VP Biteme. The problem is that not one of their bishops has the stones to publicly excommunicate them.
No we are the homophobes. /sarc
Yep.
The syphilis has clearly affected her brain.She probably contracted it from her “special friendship” with Tiller The Killer.
I have never met a single doctor, nurse, or other healthcare professional who thought Obamacare was sensible. Do leftist retards know that they are getting treatment from racists?
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