Posted on 01/06/2015 9:41:34 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Please note that I took the apostrophe out of your "60's". "60's" shows possession. "60s" pluralizes, which is the desired outcome. I'm not trying to be snotty or snippy. I'm simply trying to help you. That same thing has embarrassed me more than once. ;-)
You have not heard me say that anyone did not have legitimate grievances nor have you asked that question. It seems to me that they went about it wrongly. History, again, has proven that the Alabama state trooper's words carry more weight and seem more legitimate than the words of the race hustlers. The bottom line is that MLK was the first 'race hustler', although with good intentions, ideals and he meant well. $hakedown Je$$e, Race-Hustler Sharpton, Obemba, Holder, et al, are riding his coattails.
My favorite MLK quote is about judging the content of one's character rather than the color of his skin. Although his private life was 'questionable'/'dubious' at best.
I said nothing about what was or wasn’t done to slaves. I asked what the purpose is of making movies showing the brutality over and over. Is there a threat of slavery being re-instituted?
If the election wasn’t a sure thing AGAINST LBJ, why would he quit? It’s not like him. Three major murders.....JFK, MLK and RFK. All with ties to LBJ.
“All right, we won’t release the evidence tying him to these murders, but that son-of-a-bitch isn’t going to run again.”
I must have been living in a parallel universe. In the America I lived in during 76-80 there was some idiot appeaser, anti-American, “it's all our fault”, let's give away the Panama Canal imbecile running things.
Obama- Worst ever in history.
Carter-Second Worst.
LBJ- Third Worst.
Clinton- Fourth Worst.
Wilson- Fifth Worst.
Roosevelt- (FDR) Sixth Worst.
Buchanan- Seventh Worst.
Truman- Eight Worst.
On Carter and LBJ, it's actually pretty close to tied in my opinion.
I could care less if I ever ever see another God bless black people movie
Last decent movie about Negroes was Zulu Dawn
What proof u have?
Only assassin of that era I suspect had help was Jimmy Ray
Only person so far to accurately clarify/state the history as I understand it. Johnson performed a political masterstroke with that tactic. It has kept Democrats in power ever since.
It was also the final straw that broke the camel's back, but it was inevitable once Republicans removed the requirement of paying taxes from voting.
"Entitlements" are what is killing us now. Things will burn and people will die becomes of the perverse incentives this system has created.
“All right, we won’t release the evidence tying him to these murders, but that son-of-a-bitch isn’t going to run again.”
Have you seen the unintentionally hilarious Django flick?
Tarentino slipped into Blaxploitation parody territory and never even noticed.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Really.
In any case, yes, "Selma" (however you choose to describe it) was an early step in getting where we are today. If you think that "where we are today" is good, or even necessarily an improvement ... I don't agree. In many ways, we've gone from the frying pan to the fire, and it will end badly.
Had Goldwater or the GOP nominee supported the Civil Rights Act in 1964, blacks would not be voting 90% for the Democratic Party.
Nonsense. What swung the black vote towards the Democrats was this.
That is also what wrecked black society from the ground up, and is now wrecking the lower socio-economic classes of white society as well. Daniel Patrick Moynihan pointed this out back in the mid sixties.
I had not been aware that Barry Goldwater opposed the civil rights act of 1964, but after having looked at the description of it in Wikipedia, I can understand fully why Barry Goldwater would have opposed it.
It requires forced association in opposition to free will. It is quite contrary to Libertarian philosophy on many points. It is an attempt to force morality on people at the point of a gun.
No one wants heroes, now.
Just handouts.
You would love Key & Peele.
Nothing is sacred.
keywords: LBJ VOTING DEMOCRATIC 200 YEARS
You weren't familiar with that quote? Here's another.
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”
-Lyndon Baines Johnson-
That it was. He turned the Republican's own plan against them. Lyndon Baines Johnson was a lot of bad things, but no one can doubt that he was a master politician. He turned a disaster for his party into a Bonanza.
I have conceded that involuntary indenture is essentially abusive. However, the degree of abuse has a much wider range than you seem willing to concede.
Not only guts, but MLK was shrewd. He took exactly the right course to advance his cause. Malcolm X tactics would have just gotten a whole lot of people killed and set back the cause.
I also point out that MLK was Pro-Gun, Anti-Sodomy, Pro-Life, Pro-God and Republican.
And in this regard, Johnson was also right. The media has become the distorting factor in American politics. We only get to hear what Left Wing Liberal Democrat Union members from New York think about issues, or what *THEY* think is important, and so everything that happens in politics nowadays is twisted by this pervasive left-wing bias.
The primary efforts of conservatives all across this nation ought to be to take away the power to shape the narrative from these Liberal Democrats who run these News and Entertainment media propaganda outfits.
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