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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (420007)6/28/2003 4:21:53 PM
From: CYBERKEN  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769669
 
Today's out-of-hand contemptuous racism of the white left for the black community would appall the segregationists of the South half-a-century ago...



To: Kevin Rose who wrote (420007)6/28/2003 5:16:40 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769669
 
If you want we can have a contest, you can name famous Republican segregationists, and I'll name famous Democrats who were segregationists. I wonder who'll win? Strom Thurmond recently died, but if I remember correctly, so did Lester Maddox (who to the best of my knowledge never became a Republican).

The left wing had its blind spots as well. Sam Gompers wouldn't let unions join his organization if they had asian members.