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To: one_less who wrote (54957)	5/28/2009 11:04:07 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

"Institutionalized racial inequity is unjust"... And the R response? Republican Plantation Politics On the same day that Republicans howled over Hillary Clinton's use of "plantation", a GOP term of art, President Bush was practicing some plantation politics of his own. In Washington on Monday, the President honored the life of Martin Luther King Jr. by calling for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "We all must recognize we have more to do," Bush intoned, "And Congress must renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965." Too bad his Justice Department and the Republican Party have been undermining it back in Georgia. In March, the GOP-controlled Georgia legislature passed a voter identification law. Nominally aimed at countering voter fraud, the transparent aim of this virtual poll tax is to suppress the African-American vote - and Democratic prospects - in the state, especially in Atlanta. The bill's sponsor, Augusta Republican Sue Burmeister explained that when black voters in her black precincts "are not paid to vote, they don't go to the polls." perrspectives.com == It was a Republican Congress which passed the first ever civil rights act." That was sooooo 19th century. Koan was asking about the 20th. Maybe the environment? Teddy Roosevelt? Looong time ago. Throughout American history several pieces of legislation have been called the Civil Rights Act - this was the first such act. It was the most important action by Congress towards protecting the rights of Freedmen during Reconstruction. The Republican-dominated United States Congress passed the act in March 1866, as a counterattack against the Black Codes in the southern United States, which had been recently enacted by all former slave states following the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. en.wikipedia.org

To: one_less who wrote (54957)	5/28/2009 12:09:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Republicans, in general, were oppositional to the Civil Rights movement in the 50s Not really. It was mostly southern Democrats in opposition. It was Eisenhower that ordered in the army to enforce the Brown decision. Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act in larger percentages than the Democrats did (of course that's the 60s not the 50s, but its only a half decade removed) By party The original House version:[9] * Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%) * Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%) The Senate version:[9] * Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%) * Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%) The Senate version, voted on by the House:[9] * Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%) * Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%) en.wikipedia.org

To: one_less who wrote (54957)	5/28/2009 2:47:34 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

"Every single Democrat in Congress voted against the 14th amendment. Republicans in Congress authored what was then, and what remains today, the most sweeping Civil Rights legislation ever enacted." Was struck by this factoid until I visited the chronology: May 10, 1866 U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no February 3, 1870 After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race It goes without saying that the parties roles are mirror images now of what they were then. All those Dixiecrats that have kept racism alive and well in this country are now the heart, and apparent soul, of what remains of the GOP. Still voting no to any attempts to eradicate race biases, with the added targets of Hispanics these days.