otto105
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Yeah, let's look at that.No, it wasn't, nor did I say it was. Please try to read things more closely. But Marxists, not just me, took part in it -- to their credit. (Martin Luther King's close advisors were CP dues-cheaters.)
When I was doing voter registration in Tennessee in the summer of 1964, everyone -- that is, all us white college kids -- was some sort of Leftist, maybe just a liberal, but also further Left. Several were 'Red Diaper Babies', as we called kids whose parents were in, or had been in, the CPUSA.
Nothing wrong with that. In fact, honorable. Not the kind of movement conservatives would instinctively join, although as others will no doubt say, the Republican Party voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in greater numbers than did the Democrats.
(In the House, 82% of Republicans voted for it, against 69% of the Democrats; in the Senate, 80% of the Republicans voted for it, as against 63% of the Democrats.
The Democrat "anti's" were all Southern racists, but the Republicans included some Goldwater libertarian purists who believed that businesses should be able to hire, and serve, whomever they wanted.
And in fact, for whatever motivation, it was the CPUSA who were the most prominent champions of Black rights during 1930s. Credit where it's due.
Read about the "Scottsboro Boys". [ Scottsboro Boys - Wikipedia ] (This Wiki article is poorly edited -- it repeats itself. But it has the facts. Conservatives in particular ought to read it, to get some context for the present.)
Seems to preview the southern strategy.