Racism within the Democratic Party

Free Republic ^ | Dec 22,2002 | Kay and Freepers

[Kay Soze]

As Freepers lets flood the net with the truth about Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and the democrats racist attitudes, actions, supporters.

Add to the list with info and articles and add to my keywords list so when searched web will see this site and list of racist attitudes by liberals.

[Kay Soze]

While Governor of Arkansas Bill ( And Hillary) Clinton were sued by the NAACP to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

So Bill and Hillary Clinton would not have supported passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act!

They fought to restrict the 1964 Civil Rights acts implementation in Arkansas.


Next!

[Bob]

I'm looking for a list of the senators (and their party) who did the filibuster of civil rights legislation in the 1960's.

It was good to see Mitch McConnell pointing out today that a higher percentage of Republicans than democRATs voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It's a start.

[Jean S]

Civil Rights Filibuster Ended

[Bob]

A Google search for filibuster, 1964 and "civil rights act" yielded the following tidbit:

Source:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_Rights_Filibuster_Ended.htm

June 10, 1964
Civil Rights Filibuster Ended


At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun fourteen hours and thirteen minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for fifty-seven working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the sixty-seven votes required at that time to end the debate.

The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights; banned discrimination in public facilities—including private businesses offering public services—such as lunch counters, hotels, and theaters; and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.

As Senator Byrd took his seat, House members, former senators, and others—150 of them—vied for limited standing space at the back of the chamber. With all gallery seats taken, hundreds waited outside in hopelessly extended lines.

Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the one-hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"

Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the thirty-seven years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.

The clerk proceeded to call the roll. When he reached "Mr. Engle," there was no response. A brain tumor had robbed California's mortally ill Clair Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting a crippled arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote. Few of those who witnessed this heroic gesture ever forgot it. When Delaware's John Williams provided the decisive sixty-seventh vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield exclaimed, "That's it!"; Richard Russell slumped; and Hubert Humphrey beamed. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the twentieth century's towering legislative achievements.


Reference Items:
Graham, Hugh Davis. The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Mann, Robert. The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell and the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996.

[Bob]

Thanks for the link. I was off searching when you posted it. Google found 800+ hits for the subject.

[Texas Eagle]

There's videotape out there somewhere showing Rep. Patrick Kennedy (RAT-RI)shoving a black female airport security screener out of his way as he hurries to catch a flight.

[Barset]

save

[hattend]

Good Rant via e-mail
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Trent's Faux Pas -- Good Guys and Bad Guys by Tom Adkins -- 12/16/02

Once again, a Republican made a faux pas. Trent Lott, in the heady excitement of Strom Thurmond's birthday, pledged unrepentant love for Thurmond's old segregationist Dixiecrats. Predictably, Democrats are screeching moral outrage as loud as possible. As Republicans, we should rise up in unison, wave our fists in the air and thank them.

Thank them? Wait a second. How about that old double standard? You know. Robert Byrd said "Nigger" right there on national television. Philly Mayor John Street raved, "The Brothers and Sisters are in charge now!!!" to a black audience. And last month, Bill Clinton mustered his famous sincerity and raved about his mentor, Orval Faubus, the great segregationist Arkansas governor. Did they apologize? Nope. And they shouldn't.

In fact, Jesse Jackson can start every day screaming "Hymietown" at breakfast, shake down a corporation at lunch, then spend the money on his favorite cousin at dinner. Al Sharpton can hold weekend rallies for Tawanna Brawley. The Congressional Black Caucus can claim the moral right to have a cow over the slightest racial slight, while remaining the most racist organization in America today. It's OK. It's their job because they're Democrats.

See, Democrats serve an important function in American politics. Republicans are the good guys, held to impeccable morality, riding in to save the day. But what are good guys without bad guys? Dudley Do-Right had Snidely Whiplash. CONTROL battled KAOS. Luke Skywalker had Darth Vader. And Republicans have those law-breaking, immoral, philandering, secret-selling, Chinese-bribe-taking, molesting, lying, cheating, dastardly Democrats. Oh yeah, add racist to that list, too.

Oh, sure, Republicans do bad things sometimes. But Livingston, Gingrich, Packwood and Nixon all got tossed by fellow Republicans. Meanwhile, Democrats love their criminals. Clinton, Clinton, Jackson. And so what if Barney Frank ran a gay whorehouse out of his basement? Would Billy the Kid boot someone out of his gang because he was too mean? Of course not! But if Pat Garrett smudged his sheriff's star, he'd have resigned in shame!

Democrats can do anything they please, because they are the Bad Guys of American politics. Democrats created welfare. Republicans fixed it. They started Vietnam. We ended it. They jacked up taxes. We lowered them. Democrats created the failing Social Security system, then raided it to fund their evil social programs. Jimmy Carter almost handed the world to Communism (In fact, he's still trying). Chinese bribes wormed their way to the Clinton operation as rocket guidance systems magically appeared atop Red Chinese nukes. Again and again, Democrats tie the pretty girl to the railroad tracks and Republicans are compelled to rescue her, letting the bad guys get away once again.

If you think about it, Democrats are paying us the highest compliment. They have virtually no principles whatsoever, yet hold Republicans to far greater standards. Meanwhile, conservative ethics are impossibly high, and we demand Republican leaders reach them. Frankly, the double-standard proves we're better. Therefore, there is no redemption for bad Republicans. Trent Lott could gouge out his own heart, sizzle it on a hibachi, carve it up and serve it as an appetizer at the next NAACP convention. It won't matter. Democrats will smear his bloody remains all over the national political map until nobody is left to pander. And Republicans won't follow him anyway. He's not good enough for us anymore.

So, Republicans should politely insist Trent Lott step down as Majority Leader, and let someone of greater mettle take his place. Once again, we'll be the better party for policing ourselves. Lott's mistake was forgivable but irreparable. You can't put the hooey back in the donkey.

Meanwhile, the New York Times can claim their leftist propaganda is really news. Hollywood liberals can forever remain the moral dung heap of American culture. And the National Organization for Women, who don't have men, don't have conservatives, in fact don't have any members as far as anyone can tell, have the perfect right to demand Augusta National start admitting women. Yeah, add hypocrisy to that long list of adjectives, too.

So Democrats may sell our national secrets to China, if there are any left. We can find Chandra Levy's femur under Gary Condit's pillow. Heck, you might even catch Bill Clinton hiding in your daughter's closet tonight. Just thank them all. Because in American politics, Democrats play the role of the Bad Guys. They play it with gusto. And if there's one thing that Republicans can count on, it's that Democrats always make us look good.
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Tom Adkins is the publisher of CommonConservative.com, and can be seen on FoxNews, CNN, CN8. To contact: TomAdkinsCC@aol.com

[hattend]

Apr 14, 2000

Police refused Thursday to release a videotape of his confrontation with an airport security guard to Rhode Island Democrat Rep. Patrick Kennedy.

Police said detectives were still investigating the March 26 incident at Los Angeles airport and there was no decision on whether charges would be filed.

Security guard Della Patton claims Kennedy shoved and grabbed her when she told him his bag was too big to fit through an X-ray scanner.

In a letter to Police Chief Bernard C. Parks, Kennedy's lawyer asked that the surveillance videotape be made public claiming the video would clear the congressman.

Police have said the video shows "physical contact" between Patton and Kennedy.

"It is still being investigated by our robbery-homicide detectives and they are proceeding. They are treating this as they would any investigation," Lt. Horace Frank said.

"It is not our intention to release that videotape. We won't do it. It's not fair for him to do this and it's not fair to the victim to do this. We have to maintain the integrity of the investigation," Frank said.

During an appearance Wednesday in Washington, Kennedy admitted, "I lost my temper." But he said he never hurt the woman. "The entire episode has been blown completely out of proportion," he said.

On Thursday, Kennedy's chief of staff, Tony Marcella, said the congressman respected police concerns but hoped that the video would be released when investigators were through with it.

"We are very confident that when the tape is viewed by the public, they are going to see something that might not be the most polite behavior in the world, but it's going to be nothing like the press has made it out to be," Marcella said.

[Texas Eagle]

I'm pretty sure Fox News showed the video.

[hattend]

See video here although it doesn't play on my machine for some reason

[Texas Eagle]

Hollywood liberals can forever remain the moral dung heap of American culture.

Speaking of Hollywood dung beetles (and in keeping with the theme of the e-mail), they got Sean Penn, we got an Iraqi scientist who is familiar with Sodom's WMD program who defected to the US. I can't think of his name offhand but I suspect there's a FReeper out there who does and will provide it in due course.

[Republican Red]

From Neal Boortz (Boortz.com):

20th Century U.S. History final:

1) The Dixiecrat party was made up of Southern
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

2) Jim Crow laws were passed by legislatures controlled by:
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

3) When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights efforts in the South, the governing powers that opposed him were of which party?
a) Democrat
b) Republican

4) In Arkansas, the governor who stood in the door of a schoolhouse to block integration was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

5) The president who ordered in the National Guard to dislodge the above-mentioned governor from the above-mentioned door was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

6) George Wallace was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

7) Lester Maddox was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

8) Although Republican Bo Callaway won a plurality of the vote, the Georgia Legislature installed Lester Maddox as governor. The Legislature was ruled by an overwhelming majority of:
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

9) As a bonus worth 50 points, which is the only one of questions above answered correctly with "b"?

[BIGZ]

Who said, "I did not call Paul Fray a F--king JEW BASTARD.

Pope John
Al Gore
Alice of Wonderland
Hillary

[mhking]

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[Texas Eagle]

African American Landmark Demolished at Clinton Library Site

CNSNews.com 11/26/01 Marc Morano

A historically important freight depot built by former slaves and located on the grounds where Bill Clinton plans to build his presidential library was demolished last Wednesday. Local preservationist Gregory Ferguson told CNSNews.com that the building's demolition was done in an "underhanded" and "reprehensible" manner.

Ferguson was at the federal courthouse in Little Rock, filing a legal challenge to the demolition of the freight depot last Wednesday, when a city representative informed the court that the building had just been destroyed.

"We had a hearing set for 1:45 PM, but by that time a witness for the city who was onsite testified that the Choctaw Freight Depot was essentially destroyed," he said.

"While I was in the process of filling out my [legal challenge], the demolition contractor's huge front-end loader machines were tearing out the heart of the Choctaw Freight Depot," he added.

The freight depot was built at the end of the 19th century by former African-American slaves. The structure is a showpiece for at least two African-American stone and brick craft skills, according to Ferguson.

Clinton told CNSNews.com in September that the depot was "of no use to anybody."

African-American preservationist Susan Branch told CNSNews.comearlier this month that Clinton must have been "misinformed," and she called the planned demolition a "disgrace."

"The city has very few identified black historic properties," she said.

Skip Rutherford, the president of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Foundation, apologized earlier this month for the planned demolition. "I am just sorry," he told CNSNews.com .

He acknowledged that the depot's demolition could cause controversy in the African-American community, but he defended Clinton's record with regard to African Americans.

"I don't think there is any question of Clinton's commitment to civil rights. His administration was the most inclusive in history. He has probably done more to save structures than anyone. I think he is doing his part and then some," Rutherford said.

Ferguson says the demolition occurred without notice and "despite the fact that the city comptroller told us that very morning that he had not approved the contract for demolition." He said the Little Rock City comptroller has assured him the building could not be demolished yet because "there had been no performance bond posted as required by the city and other preliminaries required under the contract had not been fulfilled."

He explained that the demolition crew "went directly for the historic part of the structure and didn't bother with the surrounding part first."

"As soon as they had done their dirty deed, the workman left, and have not returned Thursday, Friday or Saturday, and won't be back until Monday."

Ferguson said the process by which the Clinton library foundation and the city handled this issue have left him with "bitter taste in my mouth."

"Through this process, I was witness to some of the most underhanded, reprehensible, dirty, and immoral conduct I have ever had the misfortune to observe."

He hopes to continue the legal challenge surrounding the "section 106 review," which is part of the National Historic Preservation Act. The library foundation has not yet conducted the required review, which calls for an examination of the property for any items of archeological, tribal, or historical significance.

He hopes to be able to subpoena the foundation president Skip Rutherford and city officials "to get them under oath to tell not only what happened regarding this, but also to ask questions as to the funding sources."

If the library foundation is found to have intentionally circumvented the required section 106 review, that could lead to the "federal death knell" for the construction project, according to Ferguson.

HENCH adds: from the article: Clinton told CNSNews.com in September that the depot was "of no use to anybody."

and then: He explained that the demolition crew "went directly for the historic part of the structure and didn't bother with the surrounding part first."

It just shows that Slick knew all along he needed that piece of peoperty for his library, and would tell any lie necessary, and to quote Mr. Ferguson: "Through this process, I was witness to some of the most underhanded, reprehensible, dirty, and immoral conduct I have ever had the misfortune to observe."

Mr. Ferguson, meet Bill and Hillary Clinton.

[Republican Red]

Gephardt Tied to White-Rights Group
Carl Limbacher
March 18, 1999

House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt spoke before a prominent St. Louis white-rights organization during his first run for Congress and attended two of the group's picnics after his election, says Gordon Baum, head of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
Interviewed Monday by NewsMax.com, Baum explained that Gephardt had come to a meeting of the Metro South Citizens Council to debate his primary-election opponent.

"The hall was adorned on one side of the speaker's platform with the Confederate flag, and on the other side was the American flag," said Baum. "And Dick Gephardt addressed the group and asked them openly for their endorsement."

"Gephardt is one of many local officials who dropped by the Metro South Citizens Council's gatherings in the early 1980s," according to a March 7, 1999, report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Baum told NewsMax.com that the Metro South Citizens Council was a group concerned primarily with "states' rights" and forced busing. When it disbanded, many of the members joined his Council of Conservative Citizens, which, Baum says, addresses broader interests like taxes, gun control, and general moral decay.

But groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and the National Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee contend that the CCC's conservative message is just camouflage for a hidden white supremacist agenda.

And many of Gephardt's House colleagues apparently agree, though they don't seem to know about the Missouri Democrat's past association with the group.

Last year, in the heat of the impeachment battle, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz defended the president by linking Republicans favoring Clinton's conviction to Baum's group. Rep. Bob Barr, Georgia Republican, and Sen. Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, were singled out by Dershowitz for having contact with the CCC in the recent past.

Both Barr and Lott distanced themselves immediately from the group's philosophy, but Democrats continue to criticize the pair for what Dershowitz calls their "racist" affiliations. The two Republicans were raked over the coals for months on the nation's op-ed pages and on political TV chat shows, with some pundits calling for their resignation.

But the press and Dershowitz have failed to note Gephardt's almost identical connection to the more extreme precursor to the CCC. NewsMax.com faxed the Post-Dispatch report to the Harvard law professor's office early Monday with a request for comment. As of press time, the usually vocal and combative champion of racial tolerance had declined to respond.

In 1988 then-presidential candidate Gephardt denounced the organization, the Post-Dispatch reported last week, noting that he couldn't recall his own visit to the Metro South Citizens Council.

But Baum says, "If he denounced us back then, he must have whispered it in somebody's ear, 'cause it was never covered down here."

The St. Louis paper reported that two weeks ago the Missouri Democrat issued a statement saying that any group "who practices a brand of racially motivated politics has no place in the country we live in today." But nothing in Gephardt's statement clarifies his own contacts with the St. Louis white-rights group.

One source familiar with the matter told NewsMax.com that Gephardt privately does not dispute the allegations but that his press office is very unhappy that the issue has been revived at this late date. A Monday call requesting comment from Gephardt spokesperson Laura Nichols went unreturned.

Last month, the House minority leader dropped his plans to seek the presidency in the year 2000, hoping instead that presumptive Democratic nominee Vice President Al Gore will help win back the House and make Gephardt speaker. On Monday, Gore welcomed Gephardt's formal endorsement, though it is not clear whether the vice president is aware of Gephardt's history with the white-rights group.

Prompted by media outrage targeting Barr and Lott, Rep. Robert Wexler, Florida Democrat, has introduced a House resolution condemning the Council of Conservative Citizens. Apparently unaware of Gephardt's onetime cultivation of a related group, Wexler's proposal attacks the CCC for providing "access to, and opportunities for the promotion of, extremist neo-Nazi ideology and propaganda that incites hate crimes and violence."

Baum told NewsMax.com that the rhetorical broadsides directed against his group are overblown and inaccurate. He insists, "We don't hate anybody." And he defended the Missouri Democrat's right to address the Metro South Citizens Council, explaining that "there was nothing wrong with Gephardt coming to speak to us. Politicians came to us because we represented a significant percentage of the voters."

But the CCC chief believes the press was wrong to single out conservative Republicans while giving Gephardt a pass, telling NewsMax.com that journalists used his group as a partisan billy club:

"The only reason they used us to beat up on guys like Barr and Lott is to save Clinton. It's just another case of liberal media hypocrisy," said Baum.

[Republican Red]

John Kerry, puffed with righteous indignation, waded into the Trent Lott furor, demanding the Republican's head on a platter. ``There can never be an appearance of racism or bigotry in any high position of leadership,'' he declared. Funny, but that's pretty much what prominent Italian-Americans were saying about Kerry the morning he tried to come off as droll on the Don Imus show, quipping, ``The Iraqi army is in such bad shape, even the Italians could kick their butts.'' State auditor Joe DeNucci led the angry backlash, charging, ``He wouldn't have the guts to say that about Jews or blacks,'' prompting a Kerry spokeswoman to suggest DeNucci cool his jets, that the senator was obviously being facetious. Of course, that's the same thing his office said following another appearance on the Imus show when, attempting to belittle Bill Weld's work ethic, Kerry described the former GOP governor as ``a guy who takes more vacations than people on welfare.''

[snooker]

Someone the Democrats would like you to forget about. As the Civil Rights act of 1964 was going to the 2 houses ... after Kennedy was killed and Johnson sworn in ... A Senator of note was taking the lead ... Republican Senator Dirksen.

Pull quote worth noting ...

"From the beginning, before the bill was even introduced in the House, Kennedy, and then Johnson, realized the success or failure of the bill rested upon the shoulders of one man, Everett McKinley Dirksen. Ironically, two Democratic presidents relied upon a Republican senator because they could not count on the support of Southern Democratic senators, most of whom supported segregation. Dirksen could deliver enough Republican votes to invoke cloture, thus limiting debate and vastly improving the chances of the bill's passage. In fact, if a senator was willing to vote for cloture he would also, in all probability, vote for the civil rights bill."

Full article in Senator Dirksen's archive from the Senate.
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/iht319648.html

Might want to give this one a real close read.

snooker