Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party turned their back on Carl McCall. When the Democrat Party had to replace two Senate candidates they turned to two old white guys. The Maryland Governor's race had an African-American on one of the tickets and it wasn't the Democrat's. Harold Ford's run at House minority leader sure was short lived. The head of DNC could have easily been a person of color had the Clinton's not gotten their way. Finally Al Sharpton's presidential campaign threatens to split the Black vote.
Miss Marple put together a great visual yesterday on this subject. Ping her for the details.
Let the Dems play the race card. The Pubbies can trump it if they chose to.
The Clintons were sued by the NAACP during their 5 term governorship over Arkansas.
Hillary and Bill never once made any effort to remove the star of the confedracy form the State flag,official documents or emblems.
Democrat Senators Robert Byrd and Ernest Hollings are staunch segragationists in word and deeds.
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-The 1924 Democartic Convention was known a s the KLANBAKE as was so heavily attended by KKK Democarts.
- So strong was the Texas Democratic Party’s commitment to maintaining its whites-only primary, it took four direct orders from the United States Supreme Court spanning four decades to remove the racist institution
- House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt was reported by Newsmax.com to have attended meetings with and even solicited the endorsement of a St. Louis area “white rights” organization during his first campaign.
- Byrd wrote to the notorious white supremacist Senator Theodore Bilbo, another Democrat, in 1946 announcing that he would rather “die a thousand times” than see desegregation in the U.S. military.
- In 1964, Byrd filibustered, along side Senator Al Gore, Sr., for 14 hours against the Civil Rights Act.
- Sen Fullbright Bill Clintons mentor was a staunch segragationists and Bill Clintom awarded him the Medal of Freedom !