Being truthful does not make you racist!

[sirs]

 

[Xavier_Onassis]

Within the warp[ed tiny mind of sirs there dwells a wee little being in full Klan regalia.

[Plane]

Within the warp[ed tiny mind of sirs there dwells a wee little being in full Klan regalia.

Are you without a dark side?

How does your racism manifest itself?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Get serious.

[sirs]

Don't sweat-it Plane.....folks on the left have a knee jerk response to calling anyone on the right racist, in some form, when they dare talk about respect for all races equally.  Makes you wonder what they'd call MLK, and his extreme vision of judging others by the content of their character vs fixated on their skin color.  An Uncle Martin?

[Plane]

Get serious.

I totally am.

Didn't you just state that a racist might not realize how much he is racist?

So your racism might be more evident to others than to yourself.


If that is how it works.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Yeah, sure.
Pat yourselves on the back, all us liberals make frequent reference to Uncle Martin.

Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Bill and so did Barry Goldwater.

[sirs]

So did most of the Democratic party.  The FACT is that it wouldn't have passed without the majority Republican support/vote

[Plane]

Yeah, sure.
Pat yourselves on the back, all us liberals make frequent reference to Uncle Martin.

Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Bill and so did Barry Goldwater.

Now really is this fair?

Goldwater and Reagan both supported an earlier civil rights bill.

The one Goldwater liked was mainly different in that it would have been strong in northern states as well as southern.

[Xavier_Onassis]

It is indeed really fair.

The Civil Rights Bill was the result of the genius of LBJ almost entirely. LBJ was not a Republican, either.

[kimba1]

lBJ?

True he passed the most civil rights bills but he didn't do it for minorities at all. Those bills are mainly to help his fellow farmers . People forget a certain kind of class system also exist in america. Lets just say the term white privilege doesn't apply to a large percent of white folks

[sirs]

Well concluded, Kimba. 

And for an additional reminder, as the professor tries to paint the GOP as the supposed racist party:

Vote totals[edit]
Totals are in "Yea–Nay" format:
The original House version: 290–130   (69–31%).
Cloture in the Senate: 71–29   (71–29%).
The Senate version: 73–27   (73–27%).
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289–126   (70–30%).

By party[edit]
The original House version:[20]
Democratic Party: 152–96   (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34   (80–20%)

Cloture in the Senate:[21]
Democratic Party: 44–23   (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6   (82–18%)

The Senate version:[20]
Democratic Party: 46–21   (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6   (82–18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[20]
Democratic Party: 153–91   (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35   (80–20%)

As factually unrefuted, that a greater % of Republicans voted for the '64 Civil Rights Bill, than did Democrats.  If it weren't for the GOP, the Bill may have never passed a Democrat Fillibuster

[Xavier_Onassis]

Were it not for LBJ, it would never have been voted on.

It took LBJ far more guts to support this than some Republican from Idaho

[sirs]

Sure it would have......whoever the President was.  It just happened to be LBJ.  Point and FACT remains, more Republicans supported Civil Rights than your precious Democrats.  Al Gore's dad immediately comes to mind

[Plane]

Were it not for LBJ, it would never have been voted on.

It took LBJ far more guts to support this than some Republican from Idaho

  How can you say it took more guts for a Democrat to do this ?

Why?

  Were the Republicans generally more in favor of civil rights at the time?