2aguy
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It has always struck me as bizarre that white Republicans keep telling African Americans that they are stupid.It has always struck me that on July 2, 1964, the day LBJ signed the Civil Rights act into law making it illegal to discriminate against people based on race, that the narrative became that the democrat party was for black and the GOP was racist.
For the sake of argument, let's say that is correct. Why would everyone in both parties, not just one man, switch their racisms? Has there ever been such a massive switch of belief of one group of people, let alone two groups of people? The stupidity of such an assertion is really mind numbingly outrageous.
But what children are not taught in schools, or in the media, or anywhere else for that matter, is that Republican President Eisenhower pushed for Civil Rights, and yes, he was opposed by a chorus of democrats. No matter, the The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was passed despite being filibustered by democrats.
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But the Left would have you believe that in a dark room in 1964, the planets aligned as everything changed. The democrats had somehow changed overnight from a party that fought to keep slavery in the 1800's, and who started the KKK to resist the Republican party in 1865, and who fought Eisenhower on his Civil Rights legislation in 1957, had changed on the twinkling of an eye for no apparent reason.
It really is mind blowing, whether you believe it or don't believe it. It borders on the miraculous.
Since Eisenhower every Republican Presidential candidate has been demonized by the DNC as a racist. Even John McCain was demonized as a racist, although once McCain turned on Trump he miraculously became a stateman and nonracist right before he died.
Funny that.
Your 'argument' is another such example.
The Right(i.e. you) would have you believe that in a dark room in 1964 that every Democrat in America was a racist- including bizarrely the majority of African Americans.
You (intentionally) of course left ouf lots of history there- such as:
The KKK was not founded by 'democrats'- and the KKK was a force in America in both Republican and Democratic strongholds.
African Americans voted solidly for Republicans- until FDR- when the shift started- as FDR's economic policies were seen to be beneficial by African Americans- and FDR also made some major moves to end discriminatory employment during WW2- so the shift of African Americans to the Democratic Party started then.
Then Truman ordered the desegregation of the Armed Forces- which was another big move- and another move by Northern Democrats which pissed off white Southerners.
Eisenhower of course had his own signature moments trying to end discrimination- with sending the 101st airborne to ensure integration of a school and signed the 1957 Civil Rights act- which was indeed filibustered by one Democrat- Strom Thurmond- of South Carolina- who became a Republican in 1964.
Then Kennedy proposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which after his assassination Johnson pushed through into law- despite the opposition of virtually every Southern Congressman and Senator- both Republican and Democrat.
But what really clinched it- when it came to African Americans and the Republican Party- came later in 1964- when the Republicans nominated for President Barry Goldwater- who had voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Which led to Martin Luther King Jr. calling out to African Americans- and white persons of goodwill:
“The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism...On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represents a philosophy that is morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives 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 have 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 does not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.”
And as far as the 'miracle' is concerned- Strom Thurmond did indeed switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party- where he felt much more at home.
Yes....Black Americans made a deal with a devil....lyndon Johnson......and they turned their back on the real Civil Rights Warrior Barry Goldwater....you ignorant hack......MLK sold his people out to LBJ......whose Great Society purchase of their souls destroyed the Black Family in the cities controlled by the democrat party...
Lydon Johnson voted against every Civil Rights act up to the last two and even voted against the anti-lynching laws....you dumb ass...and that is the man the Black Civil Rights movement backed.........over the real hero Barry Goldwater....
Here is the person they turned their backs on....you twit......
Barry M. Goldwater: The Most Consequential Loser in American Politics
Goldwater treated all people the same. As a private citizen, he flew mercy missions to Navaho reservations, never asking for recognition or accepting payment. He felt that “the red man seemed as much—if not more—a part of Arizona and America as any white or black person.”[20]
Moreover, a few weeks after Goldwater was discharged from the Army in November 1945, Democratic Arizona Governor Sidney Preston Osborn asked him to organize the Arizona Air National Guard. One of Goldwater’s first recommendations, soon approved, was to desegregate the unit. Goldwater’s integration of the state’s Air National Guard took place more than two years before President Harry Truman integrated the U.S. armed forces.
Goldwater was an early member of the Arizona chapters of both the NAACP and the National Urban League, even making up the latter’s operating deficit when it was getting started. Later as a Senator, he desegregated the Senate cafeteria in 1953, demanding that his black legislative assistant, Kathrine Maxwell, be served along with every other Senate employee after learning she had been denied service.
In the mid-1970s, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, investigating improper operations of the intelligence community in the United States, proposed that transcripts of the FBI tapes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged indiscretions be published. An outraged Goldwater declared he would not be a party to destroying King’s reputation and strode out of the committee room.
A fellow Senator recalled that Goldwater’s protest “injected some common sense into the proceedings,” and the electronic surveillance transcripts were not released.[21]
That his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was based on constitutional grounds and not political considerations was underscored in the final week of the fall campaign. Speaking in Columbia, South Carolina, Goldwater condemned segregation and declared that government must treat “all men as equal in the arena of law and civil order.”[22] He pledged if elected President to implement all provisions of the act. His forthright pro-civil rights speech was televised on 87 stations throughout the South.
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The conservative ascendency of 1964 saw the nomination of Barry Goldwater, a western libertarian who had never been strongly identified with racial issues one way or the other, but who was a principled critic of the 1964 act and its extension of federal power. Goldwater had supported the 1957 and 1960 acts but believed that Title II and Title VII of the 1964 bill were unconstitutional, based in part on a 75-page brief from Robert Bork. But far from extending a welcoming hand to southern segregationists, he named as his running mate a New York representative, William E. Miller, who had been the co-author of Republican civil-rights legislation in the 1950s.