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To: Scumbria who wrote (143105)	5/6/2001 2:05:44 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<CyberKen has suggested that this is because Dems give them welfare checks.>> That was a minimum effect, and always overrated It's contribution to the destruction of family structure can be blamed for part of the problem, but not all. The Democrats have engaged in far more nefarious and racist practices than that. The left wing media has bombarded them with Republicans-are-racists propaganda and class envy for 40 years. Their ministers have been made to buy in. Promises for rigged games like affirmative action have weakened their resolve and devalued their self-reliance. And the Democrats-the biggest racists ever-wink at them at election time and say "You know THEY are only out to get you. You can never make it without us". Its a delicate game to be played by Democratic whites against blacks, and it was grossly overstepped in 2000, at the end of the Clinton era of excesses. The new black emerging middle-class, while it contains both liberals and conservatives, will have far fewer suckers, for the left's taste...

To: Scumbria who wrote (143105)	5/6/2001 3:25:13 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.

To: Scumbria who wrote (143105)	5/6/2001 4:27:36 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes. congresslink.org If you say the Democrats were the ones, then it must be true.