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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (176671)	8/13/2020 6:22:03 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By Ms. Baby Boomer Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 355627

1) Why do the African Americans vote for Democrats over 90% in every election? Before LBJ got the Voting Rights Act passed, blacks in the south weren't allowed to vote by the racist Democrats who dominated politics there (you know, people like Al Gore's Dad and J W Fulbright, Bill Clinton's mentor).. We don't know how they would've voted had they been allowed. But there surely was a reason the racist Democrats of that era didn't want blacks to vote. LBJ changed that. .... Al Gore, Sr. voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when he was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Not only did he vote against it, he participated in a 74 day filibuster in an attempt to delay and weaken the legislation. Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto in opposition of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which the Manifesto deemed "a clear abuse of judicial power." With other southern Democrats, Fulbright participated in the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and opposed the 1965 Voting Rights Act ------------------------------------------ 2) Why did the conservatives vote against the 1964 civil rights act and the liberals voted for it? The "conservatives" who voted against it were Democrats. Don't you know that? --------------------------------------------- PS: as regards gay marriage. African Americans in general were at first against it, because they are more conservative than democrats in general. But when their leaders explained gay marriage was a civil right they changed their mind in just a few months. No, they didn't. That's why liberals took it out of the voter's hands. It wasn't just blacks either, Latinos are the largest "minority" in CA.