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The Republicans of the civil rights era are now called RINOs and the Republican Party of that era doesn't resemble today's Republican Party. It's not even close.
They are the same party today as back then.
They were against LBJ's welfare program then and same as now, knowing full well how it would impact families and marriages.
Not true! As someone who used to vote more Republican than Democrat - I can assure you they aren't the same parties. Democrats evolved, Republicans devolved.
I would argue that moving to positions that treat minorities as perennial, hapless victims incapable of taking care of themselves is not evolving...
What is wrong with expecting just as much from minorities as anyone else? Why do you lefties insist that minorities always require the kid glove treatment?
How do you explain Ben Carson?
How many times do we have to keep debunking this lie.
Carson has said many times that his mom was against welfare.
Benjamin Carson: My mother worked as a domestic, two, sometimes three jobs at a time because she didn't want to be on welfare. She felt very strongly that if she gave up and went on welfare, that she would give up control of her life and of our lives, and I think she was probably correct about that. And, so she worked very hard. Sometimes we didn't see her for several days at a time, because she would go to work at five in the morning and get back after 11:00 p.m., going from one job to the next. But, one thing that she provided us was a tremendous example of what hard work is like, and she was also extremely thrifty. She would go to the Goodwill, she'd get a shirt that had a hole and put a patch on it and put another one on the other side to make it look symmetrical, and she sewed her own clothes. She would take us out in the country on a Sunday and knock on a farmer's door and say, "Can we pick four bushels of corn, three for you and one for us?" and they were always glad at that deal. And she'd come home and she'd can the stuff, so that we would have food. She was just extremely thrifty and managed to get by that way. No one ever could quite figure out how she was able to do what she did. She would drive a car until it fell apart, and then she would buy a new car because she saved every dime and every nickel, stuck it under the mattress, and when it came time, years later, to buy a new car, she could do it. And, the neighbors said "What is it with this woman? What is she doing?" Because our mother was a very attractive woman and they figured, you know, she was selling her body and doing all kinds of things like that. But in fact, she had to endure that kind of ridicule, as well as work extremely hard. But, she figured it would pay off in the long run.
One of 24 siblings, half of whom she never knew, Ben Carson's mother Sonya grew up in foster homes until the tender age of thirteen--the youngest you can be and yet be called a teenager. At thirteen she married a man who called her his "china doll" and some years later had two sons.
When she found out her husband was a bigamist she made the difficult decision--her sons loved their father dearly--to leave him. Renting out the house she received in the divorce settlement, Sonya, with her sons, temporarily moved into a tenement with one of the sisters she did know, and took 2 and sometimes 3 jobs as a domestic to support herself and her sons. She had only attended school up to third grade.
I was a teenager in 1965 and lived in Florida. Had I lived in Alabama I would have been on the side of the police and White community and would have had no regrets about it, even today.
If somebody doesn't like it they can kiss my Cracker ass.
Don't the RWnuts love to claim that it was Republicans who were behind the rights acts of 64 and 65?
More proof that today's Republicans bear no resemblance to their predecessors of 50 years ago.
I was a teenager in 1965 and lived in Florida. Had I lived in Alabama I would have been on the side of the police and White community and would have had no regrets about it, even today.
If somebody doesn't like it they can kiss my Cracker ass.
Besides being an ignorant racist - are you also a Christian?
Former President George W. Bush and wife will be there.
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Why would they want to go to a false movement claimed by Liberal Dems of today.
I was a teenager in 1965 and lived in Florida. Had I lived in Alabama I would have been on the side of the police and White community and would have had no regrets about it, even today.
If somebody doesn't like it they can kiss my Cracker ass.
Besides being an ignorant racist - are you also a Christian?
Are you a Christian that voted for Obama where he attended a hate church for 20 years that preached hate against Whites, Jews and even the US?
The neeeeeeegroes need to move on from Selma...leave it for Oprah and Amos.‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.
Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.
None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.
“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”
Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.
“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”
More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO
So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.
The neeeeeeegroes need to move on from Selma...leave it for Oprah and Amos.‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.
Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.
None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.
“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”
Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.
“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”
More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO
So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.
I was 18 when Bloody Sunday took place. I was old enough to know that blacks had been treated as second class people - or worse.
They will be a long, long time overcoming Obama...forget about Selma.The neeeeeeegroes need to move on from Selma...leave it for Oprah and Amos.‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.
Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t include a single member of House Republican leadership — a point that isn’t lost on congressional black leaders.
None of the top leaders — House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group — will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred.
“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”
Former CBC Chair Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio) agreed.
“Not only do they have an opportunity to participate in something that is historic in this country, but certainly they’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,” she said. “Their loss.”
More: GOP leaders to skip Selma event - Anna Palmer and Lauren French - POLITICO
So, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP. Not surprised.
They can't move on until the job is done.
Don't the RWnuts love to claim that it was Republicans who were behind the rights acts of 64 and 65?
More proof that today's Republicans bear no resemblance to their predecessors of 50 years ago.
Why would they want to go to a false movement claimed by Liberal Dems of today.
I was 18 when Bloody Sunday took place. I was old enough to know that blacks had been treated as second class people - or worse.
I was 12 when Selma took place and even then I wish I had been older because I wanted to march with them.
I thought it was horrible and despicable what Southern Dem's were doing.
“It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. “The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing.”
Disappointing, but not surprising.
And that many republicans and conservatives might feel 'out of place' or 'uncomfortable' at such an event is on republicans and conservatives, not those attending the event.
