I am sickened by the hypocrisy of the Repubs honoring Rosa Parks

[rhett o rick]

If it was up to them, the black Americans would still be in the back of the bus. Thousands of black Americans not allowed to vote in Florida in 2000 and then again in Ohio in 2004. We ain't come a long way baby.

[NVMojo]

1. it is like they are hoping they appear better people by being there ...

makes me ill too.

[Loonman]

2. Like Trent Lott

Trent was all sad because Strom Thurmond was never president so he could extend the segregation laws.

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[Lerkfish]

7. ROTFLMAO! out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

they love thomas and rice only as a means to an end, and because they are whiter than Bill Clinton.


hahahahahahahaha thanks for my first laugh of the day.

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[Lerkfish]

29. The better question is why you are HERE defending Bushco.

:shrug:

[Vickers]

8. Yes, Rice and Powell are such heroes of the Black community...

:eyes:

Oh, and welcome to DU yadda yadda yadda...

[verse18]

11. Look up the meaning of

"House N*****" and you'll understand why.

[rhett o rick]

12. Listen and learn. Rice and Thomas are not black. They are lackeys

for the Bush/Chaney cabal. Racism is alive and well and every one of the racist is republican. Ask the KKK how they vote. Stick around fascist and maybe you'll learn something.

[bigscott]

16. Condisleazy and Long Dong

are tokens - in the worst sense

[rurallib]

17. Blacks ok in their 'place'!

say hi to the geniuses over there in freeperland for me too. So much brainpower over there.

[RaleighNCDUer]

19. It isn't necessarily all of them.

Just the bums who fled the Democratic party because of the 1965 Voting Rights act.

Now they all give lip service because it is politically correct, but if you look at their voting records you can see the truth of it.

As someone once said, President Bush doesn't care about black people. That applies to most repubs today.

And Condi and Thomas aren't black, to them. They are ornamental lawn jockeys. Repubs love them as long as they are adorable and ignorable. Let them speak against the party line, and see how much they are loved.

[rhett o rick]

21. Just ask Barbara Bush what she thinks of Black Americans. nt

[Lerkfish]

4. much as I hate to say it, they are between a rock and a hard place.

if they don't acknowledge Parks at all, that's going to play badly as well.
I think where they run into problems is that its hard to fake sincerity.
so, they KNOW they have to honor her in some way, but they do so in a horrendously hypocritical way, because the ONLY reason they try is because they think they have to politically.

[yellowcanine]

5. No kidding. The Pubs would be nowhere without the Dixiecrats and Nixon's

infamous Southern Strategy.

[mandomom]

9. Where will the repubs stand

on the new bill that states public housing or subsidized housing cannot host voter registration drives? Oh, that's right. They'll be standing behind a tree, pulling the anti-democratic racist strings, giggling, all in the name of a permanent republican majority.

[goclark]

28. Honor Rosa Parks by their good deeds not their evil deeds

Condi and Clarance are not African American accept for skin color.

They could care less about "their" people.

Condi has been using her skin color lately but we see through it.

[lonestarnot]

10. Ms. Parks would have reached up and pinched bushitler on the

nose and swung him around if she could have.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. Somebody give me a history lesson

I understand that now, Dem are the party most concerned with minorities. And there's that little 2% problem GWB has. But back in the Jim Crow days, weren't the dems the bad guys when it came to race? When did that switch? I just don't know enough about that history to understand it.

[bobbieinok]

23. major switch started with 1960 election

MLK was in jail b/c of participating in a sit-in; his wife was pregnant. JFK called her and expressed sympathy; Nixon was silent. The call came late in the campaign but news of it swept through the black community. Many blacks who had previously voted for republicans (b/c of Lincoln; b/c democratic congress men from the south were mostly rabid segregationists; etc) voted for JFK.

There is a lot of evidence that JFK wasn't really clued in but followed his advisors, who understood the possible results. Nixon was told by his advisors and felt himself that there was a good chance for republicans to win in the south if he down-played the various civil rights efforts the Eisenhower administration had tried to pass. These bills were defeated by democratic party filibusters; SThurmond holds the record for speaking 24+ hours against a civil rights bill.

The hope that the republicans could begin to pick up votes from segregationists in the south, the no phone call to Mrs MLK, etc were all part of the so-called 'southern strategy' of Nixon and the republicans,

LBJ pushed for the 1964 Civil Rights Act in response to the murders of Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman in MS in the summer of 64 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in response to the murders of civil rights activists working on voting registration in AL. He said the democrats would lose the south for at least a generation b/c of this.

Many southern democrats became republicans b/c of the democratic party's push for civil rights; prominent were SThurmond, Jesse Helms, and Trent Lott.

[bobbieinok]

26. another reason republican strategists thought they had a 'good' chance

in the south in 1960: the democrats had nominated (oh, horrors) a Roman Catholic. Many in the south were SoBapts who had a strong dislike of Catholics. I know; I was a SoBapt then and heard a lot of antiCatholic statements growing up and a lot of direct and indirect antiCatholic propanganda in the 1960 election both at home in OK and in college in TX.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

30. Thanks to both of you

for condensing it for me. So basically Kennedy was a whole new kind of Democrat, then, I guess?

[RaleighNCDUer]

24. It came when JFK met with MLK and gave governmental

imprimature to the civil rights movement. A couple years later, Johnson backed the Voting Rights act. A whole mess of southern dems abandoned the party rather than be a part of such a progressive agenda and the Repugs picked them up, forever changing both the Dems and Repugs.

Of course, the Dems have always been more progressive, meaning worker friendly, than Repugs, and the Repugs have always been more pro-business. The fact is, blacks were pretty much ignored by both parties before Kennedy. The Repugs usually had the black vote, because of the legacy of Lincoln, but never did anything to keep that vote. They'd been playing at class warfare for decades and eventually, because of the less than elevated social status of blacks, they lost the black vote to the more progressive dems.

That help?

[rayofreason]

31. Some history

After the Civil War, there was a period known as Reconstruction during which time many Blacks were elected to Congress or State offices, all of them Republican. Those elections were presided over by Federal troops, as the Southern states were divided into 5 military districts. Over time, white southerners (all Democrats) reestablished control of local legislatures, passing measures such as the Poll tax and what became known as Jim Crow laws (segregation). These were upheld in a number of Supreme Court cases, notably Plessy vs. Ferguson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson

Jim Crow laws led to a great migration by blacks, out of the south, into the north and west.

So things remained for decades, with blacks outside of the south voting Republican, and southern blacks not voting at all, until FDR. While FDR did support segregation, he only did it when it was necessary to keep the peace in the party, as when southern Governors complained that whites had to work next to blacks in WPA programs. Nonetheless, FDR was no dyed-in-the-wool racist, he was only someone who had typical patrician values and viewpoints for his time. By 1940 blacks were voting mostly Democratic because they, like all less fortunate Americans, benefited from FDR's initiatives. FDR didn't set out to win the black vote, but that was the effect. Moves by the administration to remove segregation in the army during WWII, and a complete ending of all segregation in the military by Truman were the first big steps in the modern civil rights movement. During the classic civil rights era (1954-1968), the Democratic party was split between the southern, pro-segregation Democrats, and pro-civil rights Democrats. During the 1968 election this led George Wallace, Gov. of Alabama, to run for President on a pro-segregation platform - he won 5 states and was nearly assassinated in a shopping mall in Laurel MD.

Nixon decided that by appealing to southern whites, he could build the Republican party into a more powerful force, since the US had been totally dominated by Democrats since FDR. His southern strategy induced many former Democrats, like Strom Thurmond, to switch to Republican. The south is now solidly Republican.

Thurmond is an interesting case in point. His grandfather was a Confederate veteran. The Civil War was not so long ago in many ways.

[cornermouse]

14. Repubs - All PR and hot air, no substance.

[thereismore]

15. That's Rosa "Park", don't you know. I am sick of these bastards. nt

[bunkerbuster1]

18. And in a show of solidarity, the Reeps decided to drop their GA case

and no longer persue their poll tax, which would require voters to pay $20 for a photo ID if they didn't have a driver's license, which is expected to disproportionately disenfranchise black voters.



ha ha. Just kidding! After they've left the rotunda, those ratfuckers go right back to pissing on the graves of slain civil rights workers as they've done for decades.

[RepublicanElephant]

20. i got a kick outta seeing rummy there...

...wonder if he's gonna set-up a recruiting booth outside the chapel.

[ComerPerro]

25. No. That's not entirely true

Republicans have no problem with black people, as long as they are rich and think and act like white Republicans.

[triguy46]

27. Oh I'm so glad someone mentioned this...

It is the height of hypocrisy. The party of strom thurmond.

[Strawman]

32. I thought the same thing. I noticed Newt Gingrich standing there in close

while lines of ordinary citizens walked by further back to pay their respects. Most of them were African-American.

And it pissed me off. These same cocksuckers with their "Southern Strategy," these cynical s.o.b's that campaign during every election with their coded language to appeal to the worst prejudice in white voters. These people whose political bread and butter is white ignorance and racial resentment. How dare they show their faces there? This cocksucker Newt Gingrich standing there with his little blonde piece of ass of the week (is that the one you dumped the wife with cancer for, Newt?) with his eyes shut pretending to pray like he gives a fuck about Rosa or her people. Newt's considering a run for President, you know. He's gotta work on his image. Bullshit.

During the World Series in Houston they had a moment of silence for Rosa and during it the TV cameras focused in on that unreconstructed snob Barbara Bush (whose "beautiful mind" and pampered ass has almost certainly never once rode a public bus in her spoiled little life), who in so many words said that all the people (mostly poor blacks) in the Astrodome were trash who had it better than they probably deserved in that temporary shelter. She was worried that they wouldn't go home. To see these assholes, these people who symbolize racist, corporate, rich white power get their little photo op during a tribute to Rosa Parks makes me sick.