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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (194395)7/15/2004 9:44:40 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1574565
 
Traditionally, the GOP has been the party of exclusion.

The GOP was the party of Lincon. Eisenhower order the 101st airborne in to achieve school integration in Little Rock.

The GOP was not the party that elected a former KKK member to a Senate leadership positions including the majority leader position as late as 1988 and chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee as late as 2001. A majority of Republicans in congress voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Byrd filibustered against it.

Quote - "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the Union,"

Robert Byrd to rand Imperial Wizard Samuel Green, in a letter that also offered advice on Klan leadership appointments.

He wrote that letter when he was around 30 so it wasn't just a youthful radicalism.

Also from just a couple of years ago -
"There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time-I'm going to use that word."

If Bush or a Republican senator said that we would never hear the end of it.

Byrd also vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

Tim
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