A little information and background on HRC's *racist* hero, Barry Goldwater.

[ShortnFiery]

Are you feeling hypocritical YET? :shrug:

It is Time to Demythologize Goldwater by Telling the Truth, Goldwater was a Racist

http://www.hispanic.cc/it_is_time_to_demythologize_goldwater_by_telling_the_truth,_goldwater_was_a_racist.htm

"You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger. By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' -- that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like States' Rights," — Lee Atwater.

Many States' Rights Democrats were attracted to the 1964 presidential campaign of Goldwater who was notably more conservative than previous Republican nominees, such as Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Goldwater's principle opponent in the primary election, Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, was widely seen as representing the more moderate and pro-Civil Rights Northern wing of the party. Rockefeller's defeat in the primary is seen as one turning point towards a more conservative Republican party and the beginning of a long decline for moderate and especially liberal Republicans. Goldwater's primary victory is also seen as a shift of the center of Republican power to the West and South.

In the 1964 presidential race, Barry Goldwater ran a very conservative campaign, primarily with an emphasis on "States' Rights." As a conservative, Goldwater broadly opposed strong action by the federal government. Goldwater favored the Rights of the states. Namely because a defeat of Civil Rights could not be won on a national level leaving the only alternative — winning in a few individual states where anti Black sentiments prevailed. States' Rights was thus born as a label and movement to defeat giving Civil Rights to Blacks.

Goldwater oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His stance based on his view of States' Rights has been interpreted as an appeal to racist white Southern Democrats, and undoubtedly attracted a few conservative anti Civil Rights bases.

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr

JULY 16 1964 King asserts that nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater by Republicans will aid racists


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The "best man" at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.

It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States. In foreign policy Mr. Goldwater advocated a narrow nationalism, a crippling isolationism, and a trigger-happy attitude that could plunge the whole world into the dark abyss of annihilation. On social and economic issues, Mr. Goldwater represented an unrealistic conservatism that was totally out of touch with the realities of the twentieth century. The issue of poverty compelled the attention of all citizens of our country. Senator Goldwater had neither the concern nor the comprehension necessary to grapple with this problem of poverty in the fashion that the historical moment dictated. On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented.

The celebration of final enactment of the civil rights bill curdled and soured. Rejoicing was replaced by a deep and frightening concern that the counter-forces to Negro liberation could flagrantly nominate for the highest office in the land one who openly clasped the racist hand of Strom Thurmond. A cold fear touched the hearts of twenty million Negroes. They had only begun to come out of the dark land of Egypt where so many of their brothers were still in bondage-still denied elementary dignity. The forces to bar the freedom road, to drive us back to Egypt, seemed so formidable, so high in authority, and so determined.

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Civil rights equates to The Peoples' Ongoing Struggle ... and I suggest it has been essentially stalled. :(

Newflash: It's not HRC or Bill Clinton's DLC who will "serve" anything more than their own best interest and that of their surrogates and operatives. Sure they'll try a little "race baiting" and talk kindly to homosexuals, but have they done ANYTHING TRULY PROFOUND for peoples of color ... well other than pitting them against each other for political expediency.

Obama, due to his own personal struggle, will CARE and ACT on behalf of us "little people" who have been disenfranchised for far too long by the powerful *insiders* of the D.C. Beltway Political Elites. All these entrenched "status quo" politicos are frightened and will resort to ANY DIRTY trick to keep preferably "the RNC's" but will accept "the DNC's" darling in THEIR Executive Branch. :scared: