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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (22287)	12/7/2004 1:52:42 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Selectric, I guess I'm a little dense here, but I don't know what you are talking about. I just am not that aware of any acts of domestic anti-semitism that the Republican Party ignored (or encouraged) - that Democrats didn't also ignore. You'll just have to clue me in. Did Jews face discrimination and prejudice in the United States? Yes. For example, I believe that Jews were discriminated against, and face quotas at many (if not all) Ivy League Schools. Those quotas began in the early 1920s may have remained till the 60's. Democrats were in power Nationally for over 30 years (during this period). Columbia probably had quotas when FDR was Governor of NY and President (I believe that Richard Feynman, in his autobiography mentions quotas and his rejection for admission at Columbia). Did FDR do anything about it? Did Truman? It was a Democrat Governor who used National Guard troops to surround a High School in Little Rock and said that African American students couldn't enter. It was a Republican President, who sent U.S. Airborne troops to protect African American students in Little Rock while attending their classes, and sent the Arkansas National Guard home. Now I'm sure that Faubus argued that he was using the Arkansas National Guard to protect African American students. But that's sort of like the argument, that the United States government sent Japanese Americans (only those on the west coast - but not Hawaii) to internment camps for their protection. A few years later, it was a Democratic President, against a Democratic Governor in trying to integrate a public university - so I'm not trying to saying that all Democrats were bad (I believe that a Truman desegregated the Army).