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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Scumbria who wrote (143105)5/6/2001 3:25:13 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Civil rights DID NOT come exclusively from the Democratic Party. The Civil Rights Laws passed in the 60's were INSPITE of the most powerful block in the Democratic Party. In fact, I'm sure any African American over 40 knows this. I believe that African American leaders made a choice, to emphasize the Democrats over the Republicans merely because the Democratic Party was the one in Power in the Congress (thru most of the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's). It meant that they might have a bigger voice in the Democratic Party (12% of the American Population, but +20% of the Democratic party). Surely it wasn't the Civil Rights Policies of the 1960's Democrat George Wallace or Southern Democrats holding public office.

You seem to confuse anti communism with racism. As a person who has encountered racism, I can assure you there is a difference. Just because someone on SI calls you names for being a liberal, it is nothing like having a petition delivered from your new neighbors because you are the wrong color.
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