We've come a long way in less than 100 years

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These pictures are disturbing. But to move forward, we do have to look at history. I think we should all be able to rejoice that we've come so far in such a short period of time.

There were 50,000 marchers. Unreal.


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You are right. We have come a very long way.

There are still some haters out there. Some haters in hoods and some haters in plain sight like rdean and TM.

But we as a nation have made great strides.
 
Yes, we've come a long way....and we still have a long way to go. I'm not sure how we are going to get there, as a nation, but I do know how we are NOT going to get there. We are not going to get there by racial electioneering by any party. We are NOT going to get there, by politicians of any stripe pandering to the worst fears and meanest instincts of people of ANY race, and we are NOT going to get there, by poisoning our body politic with racial animus for partisan political advantage.

You want decency? Live it. You want tolerance? Practice it. You want an end to racial politics? Then don't practice it, condone it, or tolerate it. You want an end to racial hate? Then don't join with those who encourage and actively promote racial hatred under the guise of attempting to end it. There would be less of it now, if BOTH major parties did not find votes in inflaming it.
 
People change and parties change. Do you think KKK minded folks were voting for Carter or Reagan? Reagan or Mondale? Bush1 or Clinton? Clinton or Dole/Kemp or Ross Perot? Gore or Bush2? Bush or Kerry? Obama or McCain? :)
 
And now the Republican Party is 90% white. See a connection?

Why didn't GOP question CPAC panelist's alleged white supremacist ties?

If the republican party is 90% white how is that a connection to the KKK? The majority of the KKK during it's high water mark were democrats? Segregationists in the South were democrats. Al Gore's father senator Gore was a democrat segregationist and don't even try to make the argument that he was a secret republican. He was a democrat. Democrat senator Robert Byrd who frequently used the "N" word was a former KKK leader. The KKK threat is gone and who knows why Black people vote for democrats today. Maybe it's the union sub-standard education system and maybe it's left-wing teachers who teach hatred instead of history. Maybe it's the plantation mentality of the democrat party which still pays poverty pimps to keep the plantation in line and maybe it's hateful racism directed at Black people like Dr. Condie Rice and Justice Thomas who escape the plantation.

I'm embarrassed to have to explain it to you. It's been spelled out on this board many times and linked to.

Before the 1960's, the Republican Party was the liberal party. The Republican President, Eisenhower endorsing a 90% tax rate on the wealthiest Americans. Creating NASA and investing in American infrastructure, something Republicans today call "socialism".

Then, in the 1960's with blacks marching for civil rights, some Democrats embraced their plight freaking out conservatives who fled the Democratic party en mass and joined the Republican Party, which now became the conservative party while Democrats became the liberal party. This is why Republicans today are 90% white. The accomplishments they claim happened when liberals were in charge of the Republican Party.

You don't really think the confederate Conservative Republicans of today are FOR civil rights? Do you? You can't possibly.
 
These pictures are disturbing. But to move forward, we do have to look at history. I think we should all be able to rejoice that we've come so far in such a short period of time.

There were 50,000 marchers. Unreal.


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You are right. We have come a very long way.

There are still some haters out there. Some haters in hoods and some haters in plain sight like rdean and TM.

But we as a nation have made great strides.

Umm, who is it I "hate"? I forget. Republicans tell so many lies, I can't keep them all straight.
 

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