One thing I heard, "This shit pisses me off [inaudible] it will be all over CBS ... Ole Miss." I hate to tell ya, buddy, but there's a big bunch of Ole Miss sports fans that agree with the Klan. Open your eyes to the world outside your campus. Every Confederate flag bumper sticker, t-shirt, or beer huggie is another bit of that good ole Deep South rot and hate.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
KKK Booed off Ole Miss Campus
One thing I heard, "This shit pisses me off [inaudible] it will be all over CBS ... Ole Miss." I hate to tell ya, buddy, but there's a big bunch of Ole Miss sports fans that agree with the Klan. Open your eyes to the world outside your campus. Every Confederate flag bumper sticker, t-shirt, or beer huggie is another bit of that good ole Deep South rot and hate.
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This incident clearly illustrates the difference between wimpy liberals and not-so-wimpy Republicans.
Yeah yeah, hang your hat (or in this case your hood) on the 1st Amendment.
Never mind that, there's only one sure fire "cure" for bigotry and Connecticut native, Abolitionist John Brown found it.
Republican, (according to his own niece) Martin Luther King, Jr was correct in that the victim of prejudice is rarely in a position to do anything about it; so a peaceful response from those quarters should be expected.
It is therefore incumbent on others to stand up and take action; as Brown did 150 years and 6 weeks ago in the mid-October of 1859.
So while liberals and southern Whites stood around "protesting", White northern Republicans would have no-doubt had a very different reaction.
We would have simply beat them within an inch of their lives.....give or take an inch.
Yeah, I'm gonna call bullshit on that one. The area where these bigots were speaking was cordoned off and they were protected by a bunch of very heavily armed cops and a troop of riot police. Remember this was a college campus where possession of a firearm is a felony.
The main difference I see between the north and the south when it comes to racism is the south is at least somewhat open about it. Northern republicans retreat to gated communities, private clubs, and legal action against affirmative action and school desegregation rather than marching around in hoods and burning crosses. Not that that's not going on in rural PA and Washington State just like in Mississippi or Alabama. As a matter of fact, some of the most extreme racial violence during the Civil Rights Era was committed in Boston, not exactly a bastion of the Deep South.
And to compare modern Republicans to pre-Southern Strategy Republicans is apples and oranges. The GOP base these days is nutcase fundamentalist Christians, bigots, idiots, and the ultra-wealthy (obviously for vastly different reasons). They embraced the hood wearing whiteys in the Deep South and now that's the only place they get major support. Enjoy the decline.
>>Yeah, I'm gonna call bullshit on that one
Of course you are!
But then it's your little blog now isn't it?
That's the problem with Dems. no substance, and sure as hell a lousy enough history to feel that they're forced to make up lies about ours.
Please quote the lies and I will either back them up with references or retract them.
And yes, it's my little blog but the reason I called "bullshit" is that most of what you wrote was bullshit. I'm pretty familiar with the fact based history of the GOP. To say there wasn't an enormous shift in party politics with the signing of the Civil Rights act is to ignore the truth. The Democrats lost the Deep South (and a sizeable chunk of the rest of the country's white voting populace) in one fell swoop and Johnson saw it coming. Nixon then saw how the southern white man was up for grabs and went after him with abandon. It was called "The Southern Strategy."
Was that still too unsubstantial for you?
>>with the signing of the Civil Rights act
Which one?
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 which *no* Democrats voted for?
The Civil Rights Act of 1871 which *no* Democrats voted for?
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 which *no* Democrats voted for?
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 pushed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, and filibustered by Democrats?
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1960 which was the victim of the longest filibuster in history, by the opposing Democrats?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 where over 80% of the Republicans voted in favor while the habitual racist Democrats fared far less?
The evidence is overwhelming; the Democratic Party is the party of hate and the party of the Klan.
This is why I hate arguing with wingnuts. In a real debate, one side makes a statement and presents evidence, the other side rebuts that statement and presents evidence, etc. With wingnuts I make an argument, the wingnut disagrees, I further the argument, and the wingnut ignores everything I've said in opposition to their point and simply repeats their first argument more stridently.
I said comparing the pre-Southern Strategy GOP to the present GOP is like comparing oranges to apples. It's also like comparing relatively civilized humans to masturbating, lobotomized chimps. I'm guessing you deny the Republicans' Southern Strategy, huh? Let's try some actual quotes instead of a bunch of links:
"You start out in 1954 by saying ‘N-word, N-word, N-word.’ By 1968, you can’t say ‘N-word.’ That hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites." --Lee Atwater
"The Republican Party walked away from the black community in the late 1960s. It was stupid. It was dumb to pursue a southern strategy…" -- Michael Steele
As President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he said to an aide "We have lost the South for a generation." source
The GOP has continued down the racist path since Nixon first pursued the Southern Strategy. Reagan opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and went on to blow the racist dog whistle to open his Presidential campaign outside of Philadelphia, Mississippi, a town known only for the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964, without mentioning the murders or the Civil Rights Act at all. But he did say, "I believe in states rights." Hmmm, what was it Lee Atwater said about that?
So would you like to argue the factual present or pretend the GOP is still the party of Abraham Lincoln? If the latter I'll just dismiss you as the deluded fool you would have to be to assert such utter and complete bullshit.
I'll bet you a thousand dollars that every one of those men in Klan garb have never voted Democrat in their life and most of them voted for McCain/Palin.