Zaac
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If they are working against what the event is celebrating, it wouldn't make much sense for them to be there.
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GOP leaders to skip Selma event
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If they are working against what the event is celebrating, it wouldn't make much sense for them to be there.
It is not about content of character but the color of the skin. Blacks hate whites nowadays.
Zaac
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And Whites have been hating Blacks.
Look at that. Now you got everybody hating everybody else so all should be well.
Stop the foolishness.
Yep no different then the KKK except they are full of hypocrisy "See Al Sharpton-Holder-Obama".
I'm white. I'm from the South. I vote. I vote GOP.
Why do you think I would be angry if Republicans attending an event remembering Selma?
You are broad brushing .... with a very ugly and offensive coat of paint. How did you think how someone like me or others here who live in the South and are white and vote GOP would take a statement like that?
You've presented a very narrow-minded view of people like me.
Scarlet, don't hold your breath expecting an apology for Crabby's lie about Southern voters. I live in Alabama. I vote conservative. Most folks I know vote conservative. Funny, I don't know of a one who would fit Crabby's profile. But, I know there will be no apology forthcoming.
Considering that 94% of Republicans voted in favor of the voting Rights Act of 1965 while only 75% of Democrats did so...
It seems only right that Democrats should go to ask for forgiveness for their party's history of racism - but don't hold your breath.
Instead we will see more revision of history.
It seems only right that Democrats should go to ask for forgiveness for their party's history of racism - but don't hold your breath.
Instead we will see more revision of history.
This doesn't surprise me. Two possible reasons for not attending are that they are either genuinely uninterested in the anniversary, despite the opportunity to publicly show their leadership and upright “Christian” moral values, or they feel that attending would not sit well to the Republican "base" that has been in no mood as of late to hear about racism, or voting rights, or civil rights, or why legislative victories won by the marchers and organizers of 50 years ago ought to be still protected today.This should have been an easy decision to make. The fact that is wasn't speaks volumes.
Zaac
Well-Known Member
Not to mention, again, that the GOP is in the progress of giving little to no support to restore parts of the gutted Voting Rights Legislation.
They would kinda look silly celebrating the Voting Rights Act while simultaneously refusing to support legislation to reinstate part of the Act.
The GOP, unfortunately, has been busy, according to some , trying to make it more difficult for folks to vote as opposed to trying to include more people and making it easier.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/07/chris-coons-voting-rights_n_6822540.html
The criticism has been awfully one-sided an presumptive.
Dr. Kings message of content of character has been completely hijacked.
That being said…..the media over-hypes mis-steps by both parties all the time, and who knows what goes on while we fight about it.
But Crabtownboy's is one hateful statement. Very simplistic thinking. Binary, even.
You are right. The GOP is now working hard to gut the Voting Rights Act and are bound and determined to make it difficult for minorities to vote.
http://www.thenation.com/article/172685/why-are-conservatives-trying-destroy-voting-rights-act
And the argument that ID requirements are racist and hate the poor is ridiculous. Again, binary thinking.
Zaac, I gotta work, no time to discuss it, but if your stance is the GOP doesn't want folks to vote, and the proof of your argument is ID card laws, it is very disappointing.
Zaac, I gotta work, no time to discuss it, but if your stance is the GOP doesn't want folks to vote, and the proof of your argument is ID card laws, it is very disappointing.
It's ridiculous because it's true.
Crabby has to show ID to purchase a plane ticket to Cuba or to buy a case of whiskey or a carton of cigarettes but he thinks that he should be able to walk into a precinct anywhere in the country and vote anytime without ID and without registration--well you can do that in any big city, including Indianapolis and Chicago--and then go on to another precinct and do it all over again. You don't even need to be a citizen to vote in this country if you are a Democrat.
We want to make it impossible for non-citizens to vote! Having an ID is NOT unreasonable. I'm sure all these rich Liberals would be glad to pay the cost for the ID's. Wait, some States/Commonwealths will provide free ID's.
Here in NY, the Medicaid cards are a picture ID.
Don't be naïve--the law is not enforced in the Democrat precincts of the big cities such as Indianapolis. Do you think that Democrats are capable of running an honest precinct?
OldRegular
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Yeah! But the Jews will still financially support and vote democrat!
OldRegular
Well-Known Member
So what is the point. If they had gone racists like you would have called them hypocrites. The black congressional caucus would not give a Republican air if he was in a jug.
If it had not been for the Republicans in Congress there would have been no Civil Rights Bills passed. But do the blacks care? They are perfectly to be included in the plantation crowd by the democrats who only care about the black vote, or the hispanic vote, or whatever minority vote they can buy.
Most black leaders of the Al Sharpton and OBummer type have nothing but contempt for people like Justice Thomas, or Dr. Carson, or Thomas Sowell. I bet these people never heard of Booker T. Washington or George Washington Carver! Have you?
OldRegular
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The bigger question is are there any honest democrat politicians. I came from a Congressional district in Southwest Virginia, at that time called the fighting 9th. After the Virginia democrat legislature passed the mail vote Harry Byrd told democrats to use it and they did, routinely using it to steal elections