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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (358707)	11/16/2007 12:35:20 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572120

Ted, > Of course, states rights is code for discrimination. Nonsense, unless you believe in guilt by association. You never cease to amaze me. Did you never take even one political science course when you were in school? By any chance do you know who Jefferson Davis is? "Jefferson Davis used the following argument in favor of the equal rights of states, as opposed to the declaration that all men are created equal: “Resolved, That the union of these States rests on the equality of rights and privileges among its members, and that it is especially the duty of the Senate, which represents the States in their sovereign capacity, to resist all attempts to discriminate either in relation to person or property, so as, in the Territories -- which are the common possession of the United States -- to give advantages to the citizens of one State which are not equally secured to those of every other State.[1] ” The Preamble to the Confederate States Constitution begins: "We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character..." More talk about states' rights and discrimination: "Civil Rights Movement During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the longstanding use of states' rights to maintain Southern racial politics was highlighted with proponents of racial segregation and Jim Crow laws denouncing federal interference in these state-level policies. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overruled the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision, but the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments were largely inactive in the South until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 USC 21) and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Several states passed Interposition Resolutions to declare that the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown usurped state's rights. With Martin Luther King's nonviolent campaign for civil rights, a bus boycott, sit-ins, and desegregation attempts by freedom riders (several were badly beaten by white supremists) and others achieved the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There was states' rights opposition to voting rights at Edmund Pettus Bridge, which was part of the Selma to Montgomery marches that resulted in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. James Reeb, Jimmie Lee Jackson and Viola Liuzzo are three civil rights workers who were murdered by opponents of civil rights.[2]" Now here's your favorite president in action........I am becoming increasingly convinced the dude was a racist: "In 1964, the issue of fair housing in California involved the boundary between state laws and federalism. California Proposition 14 overturned the Rumsford Fair Housing Act and allowed discrimination of any type on home sales. Martin Luther King and others saw this as a backlash against civil rights. Actor Ronald Reagan gained popularity by supporting Proposition 14, and was later elected governor of California.[3] The U.S. Supreme Court's Reitman Vs. Mulkey decision overturned Proposition 14 in 1967 in favor of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment." Now here's the piece de resistance.......I've saved the best for last: States' rights as "code word" The term "states' rights" has been used as a code word by defenders of segregation, and was the official name of the "Dixiecrat" party led by segregationist presidential candidate Strom Thurmond. George Wallace, the Alabama governor, who famously declared in his inaugural address, "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!", later remarked that he should have said, "States' rights now! States' rights tomorrow! States' rights forever!" Wallace, however, claimed that segregation was but one issue symbolic of a larger struggle for states' rights; in that view, which historians dispute, his replacement of segregation with states' rights would be more of a clarification than a euphemism.[5] On the opening day of the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan declared, "I believe in states' rights" in a speech at Neshoba County fairgrounds near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Philadelphia was the site of the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Andrew Young, Bob Herbert and others believed that Reagan's choice of this location to give his states' rights speech constituted a veiled appeal to southern segregationists.[6][7]. Reagan's campaign staff, however, denied any connection.[8] At the same event, Strom Thurmond (who was by then a Republican senator from South Carolina), declared: "We want that federal government to keep their filthy hands off the rights of the states." Thurmond had been an ardent segregationist, although he publicly opposed segregation after 1970." en.wikipedia.org