From: Rich Piehl on
On 7/24/2010 11:28 PM, Free Lunch wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:48:55 -0300, Clark F Morris
> <cfmpublic(a)ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in misc.transport.road:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:05:23 -0500, Rich Piehl
>> <rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR(a)NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> much snipped
>>>
>>> This from the person who didn't know that it was the Republicans that
>>> brought about civil rights laws in this country - not the democrats.
>>
>> The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were by the Republicans but the
>> 1964 Civil Right package was by the Democrats or are you referring to
>> some other civil rights laws?
>>
>> Clark Morris
>>>
>>> Google European Socialism and do some reading for a change.
>
> The Republicans of today are nothing like the Civil War Republicans.
> There's a reason that minorities do not vote for the GOP and that is
> because the GOP has betrayed its roots and made it acceptable for
> Republicans to be racists and to be publicly indifferent to the needs of
> the elderly, the sick and the poor.

Yeah, boy I'm sure glad there have been no racist Democrats like Robert
Byrd.



From: Rich Piehl on
On 7/24/2010 11:47 PM, bugo wrote:
>
>
> "Free Lunch" <lunch(a)nofreelunch.us> wrote in message
> news:j5fn465uba3l4eaalfrb423832er80d7g1(a)4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:48:55 -0300, Clark F Morris
>> <cfmpublic(a)ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in misc.transport.road:
>>
>>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:05:23 -0500, Rich Piehl
>>> <rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR(a)NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> much snipped
>>>>
>>>> This from the person who didn't know that it was the Republicans that
>>>> brought about civil rights laws in this country - not the democrats.
>>>
>>> The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were by the Republicans but the
>>> 1964 Civil Right package was by the Democrats or are you referring to
>>> some other civil rights laws?
>>>
>>> Clark Morris
>>>>
>>>> Google European Socialism and do some reading for a change.
>>
>> The Republicans of today are nothing like the Civil War Republicans.
>> There's a reason that minorities do not vote for the GOP and that is
>> because the GOP has betrayed its roots and made it acceptable for
>> Republicans to be racists and to be publicly indifferent to the needs of
>> the elderly, the sick and the poor.
>
> And don't forget the Dixiecrats, racist Democrats who switched to the
> GOP over the civil rights bills. These same former Democrats ended up
> acquiring great power in the GOP. Their policies still haunt us to this
> day.


You mean like George Wallace?
From: US 71 on
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,399921,00.html

Lott, Reagan and Republican Racism

"Here's some advice for Republicans eager to attract more African-American
supporters: don't stop with Trent Lott. Blacks won't take their commitment to
expanding the party seriously until they admit that the GOP's wrongheadedness
about race goes way beyond Lott and infects their entire party. The sad truth
is that many Republican leaders remain in a massive state of denial about the
party's four-decade-long addiction to race-baiting. They won't make any
headway with blacks by bashing Lott if they persist in giving Ronald Reagan a
pass for his racial policies.

The same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry
Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded
racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away
from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting
white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the
schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its
race-baiting habit really stands out.

Space doesn't permit a complete list of the Gipper's signals to angry white
folks that Republicans prefer to ignore, so two incidents in which Lott was
deeply involved will have to suffice. As a young congressman, Lott was among
those who urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in
Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in
one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing
declaration of his support for "states' rights" - a code word for resistance
to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters.

Then there was Reagan's attempt, once he reached the White House in 1981, to
reverse a long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private schools
that practice racial discrimination and grant an exemption to Bob Jones
University. Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about
his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its
racist ban on interracial dating. But true to their pattern of white-washing
Reagan's record on race, not one of Lott's conservative critics said a
mumblin' word about the Gipper's deep personal involvement. They don't care to
recall that when Lott suggested that Reagan's regime take BJU's side in a
lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, Reagan responded, "We ought to
do it." Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court in a resounding 8-to-1 decision
ruled that Reagan was dead wrong and reinstated the IRS's power to deny BJU's
exemption.

Republican leaders and their apologists tend to go into a frenzy of denial
when members of the liberal media cabal bring up these inconvenient facts.
It's that lack of candor, of course, that presents the biggest obstacle to
George W. Bush's commendable and long overdue campaign to persuade more
African-Americans to defect from the Democrats to the Republicans. It's doomed
to fail until the GOP fesses up its past addiction to race-baiting, and makes
a sincere attempt to kick the habit.



From: Beam Me Up Scotty on

> On 7/24/2010 9:19 PM, bugo wrote:
>> "Beam Me Up Scotty" <Then-Destroy-Everything(a)Blackhole.NebulaX.com>
>> wrote in message
>>> Democrat-Socialist one term wonders.
>>
>> Your "socialist" is getting so old. As I said, go live in North Korea
>> for a year and you'll see how un-socialist our current leaders are.
>>
>> I wish our leaders were actually socialist. It would be funny watching
>> the right-wing nutjobs heads really spin.

*Pppppooooooooofffff* your wish is granted.




From: Free Lunch on
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:38:35 -0500, Rich Piehl
<rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR(a)NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in misc.transport.road:

>On 7/24/2010 11:28 PM, Free Lunch wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:48:55 -0300, Clark F Morris
>> <cfmpublic(a)ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in misc.transport.road:
>>
>>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:05:23 -0500, Rich Piehl
>>> <rpiehl5REMOVETHISFOR(a)NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> much snipped
>>>>
>>>> This from the person who didn't know that it was the Republicans that
>>>> brought about civil rights laws in this country - not the democrats.
>>>
>>> The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were by the Republicans but the
>>> 1964 Civil Right package was by the Democrats or are you referring to
>>> some other civil rights laws?
>>>
>>> Clark Morris
>>>>
>>>> Google European Socialism and do some reading for a change.
>>
>> The Republicans of today are nothing like the Civil War Republicans.
>> There's a reason that minorities do not vote for the GOP and that is
>> because the GOP has betrayed its roots and made it acceptable for
>> Republicans to be racists and to be publicly indifferent to the needs of
>> the elderly, the sick and the poor.
>
>Yeah, boy I'm sure glad there have been no racist Democrats like Robert
>Byrd.
>
>
He had been a racist but changed over time. He quit being a racist. If
he had not, he would have joined the GOP.