 James Strom Thurmond, former South Carolina Senator, governor, 1948 Dixiecrat presidential candidate, World War II D-Day Normandy invasion soldier - and diehard racist segregationist - died yesterday, June 26, 2003, in his home town of Edgefield, Sourth Carolina; he was 100. At the time of his death, Thurmond was the longest serving senator in the history of the United States, having been elected to the position in 1954. He still holds the record for the longest bit of filibustering bullshit banter in senate history, 24 hours and 18 minutes, in protest of the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was the last politician to have garnered votes from sourthern Confederate veterans of America's Civil War.
Like Lester Maddox, Strom Thurmond was also a democrat. Staunchly believing that racial integration would lead to totalitarianism, and rather than support democrat president Lyndon Johnson's push for civil rights as a way of manipulating black voters, Thurmond switched to the Republican political party in 1964, thereby being directly responsible and setting the stage for the modern and mistaken belief that it is the Republicans who are the forefathers of racism; truth is that it is the democrats who traditionally were, and still are, the racists, having responded, following their defeat in the Civil War, like spoiled little children throwing a tantrum.
In a 1948 States' Rights convention (states' rights being the real issue for which the racist sourthern Confederacy fought the Civil War, for those of you who went through the liberally biased public education system and, hence, were never taught any of this truth), Thurmond said, "I want to tell you that there's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches." In December 2002, Thurmond was honored on Capitol Hill for his 48 years of senatorial service. Senate leader Trent Lott, Republican from Mississippi, said of Thurmond, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." Racist Lott was resoundingly and universally condemned for his comments and subsequently rightly forced to resign his position as Senate Majority Leader.
Did you know that Trent Lott also was once a democrat, having worked as an aide to the racist segregationist democrat Congressman William Colmer?
POINT -- The Way bets that you also didn't know that the Eighty-eighth Congress' H.R. 7152, Public Law 88-352, better known as the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" passed because of the Republican support for the bill? (The House of Representatives passed it 289-126, and the Senate passed it 73-27.) Racist democrats were staunchly against the bill, choosing, instead, to continue their support for racism and segregation. That support continues to this very today through the cover of "affirmative action," which, in fact, is just a fancy term for racism, now officially legal and encouraged.
It is the Republicans who are blamed by the democrats for being the racists, but history and truth prove otherwise. The democrats talk about their concern for people of color, but their talk is cheap and just a cover for their continuing attempts to con the public so as to steal their votes. Democrats are notorious for accusing their opposition of doing exactly what they are doing behind your back. Where there's smoke, there's fire; if a democrat say, "(S)he is lying," you can be sure that there is something there that they don't want you to know, something they want to cover up. So, look closely, for the truth points to itself.
Old racists are, thankfully, finally dying off, but the legacy they have left continues to haunt America. Despite typical democrat hypocritical protestations that they are so concerned about abolishing racism, truth is that the democrats continue to leave a trail of destruction wherever they go and on anything they touch. It will now be at least another 25 years -- 165 years after the emancipation of the slaves -- before the people of America - and the Supreme Court - understand the error of the Court's recent Grutter v. Bollinger decision, before racism is finally abolished in the United States.
Actions speak much louder than the democrats' cheap words. Thurmond - and ex-Ku Klux Klan member, current longest serving U.S. senator (1958) and "Racist Democrat of the Month" West Virginia Senator Robert C. Byrd - were two of the 21 dissenting democrat Senators who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964!
6:19:20 PM  Google It!
|
|
