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TRANSLATION: Planned Parenthood still gets a BFF in the White House.
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FreeEver
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I assume you are aware of the historic Civil Rights Act Law signed by Democratic President Johnson in 1964. If not, check the history books.
God Bless and Peace to all.
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Path_Finder
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And the Democratic party also fought against it in congress, the Dixiecrats, filibustered. And who passed it?
I think there was even some watered down version in the 1950s; and per how JFK and LBJ voted on it.
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ChristianDude
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As far as I remember, African-American support for the Democratic Party began to solidify during the presidency of FDR, as his policies (such as the New Deal) were beneficial to them. I’m not quite sure about other minorities, but I suppose part of it is the stereotype that the Republican Party is the party of upper class whites. As a minority myself (mixed white and East Asian), I would say that I do not like either party, but I like the Republicans more because I am socially conservative, but I will say that some of the Democratic Party’s economic policies are more agreeable to me (like education or health care).
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FreeEver
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Yes, you are correct. I also know that Senator Gore of Tennessee (Al Gore’s father) voted for the 64 legislation and the Bush dynasty father (Senator Prescott Bush) from Connecticut voted against it. Until that legislation passed, it was not unusual for 20-30% of African –Americans to support the party of Lincoln. As you well know, things have changed.
FWIW, Senator Bush did support Governor Rockefeller over Senator Goldwater in 1964.
I’ll let you have the last word should you so choose.
God Bless and Peace to all.
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Stylteralmaldo
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When he was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday whether he would condemn the praise of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, Donald Trump declined to disavow Duke’s comments…
…Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.
One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica…
…The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that “Native-born Protestant Americans” were being “assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City.” “Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon,” it continued, “when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language.”
It’s not clear from the context what role Fred Trump played in the brawl. The news article simply notes that seven men were arrested in the “near-riot of the parade,” all of whom were represented by the same lawyers. Update: A contemporaneous article from the Daily Star notes that Trump was detained “on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so.”
When news of the old report surfaced last year, Donald Trump vehemently denied his father’s arrest. “He was never arrested. He has nothing to do with this. This never happened. This is nonsense and it never happened,” he said to the Daily Mail. “This never happened. Never took place. He was never arrested, never convicted, never even charged. It’s a completely false, ridiculous story. He was never there! It never happened. Never took place.”
Given the politics and cultural constraints of 1927, the Klan wasn’t the sort of thing that a politician would necessarily be asked to condemn. An article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from that December notes that the Klan would probably weigh in heavily against the potential presidential nomination of then-New York Gov. Al Smith, given that he was a Catholic and a “champion of ‘alienism.’”
More:
washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/
…Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.
One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica…
…The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that “Native-born Protestant Americans” were being “assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City.” “Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon,” it continued, “when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language.”
It’s not clear from the context what role Fred Trump played in the brawl. The news article simply notes that seven men were arrested in the “near-riot of the parade,” all of whom were represented by the same lawyers. Update: A contemporaneous article from the Daily Star notes that Trump was detained “on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so.”
When news of the old report surfaced last year, Donald Trump vehemently denied his father’s arrest. “He was never arrested. He has nothing to do with this. This never happened. This is nonsense and it never happened,” he said to the Daily Mail. “This never happened. Never took place. He was never arrested, never convicted, never even charged. It’s a completely false, ridiculous story. He was never there! It never happened. Never took place.”
Given the politics and cultural constraints of 1927, the Klan wasn’t the sort of thing that a politician would necessarily be asked to condemn. An article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from that December notes that the Klan would probably weigh in heavily against the potential presidential nomination of then-New York Gov. Al Smith, given that he was a Catholic and a “champion of ‘alienism.’”
More:
washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/
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Path_Finder
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Too many Trump threads but on a related note, his son campaigning for Trump appeared on a radio show and… the caller in who interviewed him was controversial. So, we have this, the caller in has a show too but it sounds like it may well be an “internet” type of show and NOT on the public airwaves.
news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-appears-alongside-white-supremacist-radio-045636607.html
It doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a bad show but they should be careful over just appearances.
news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-appears-alongside-white-supremacist-radio-045636607.html
It doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a bad show but they should be careful over just appearances.
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GaryTaylor
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Trump isn’t a racist anymore than Obama or Hillary are, they are all opportunistic.
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GaryTaylor
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Can hardly wait to see what the GOP will do next. Trot out Mitt Romney after a FOX poll gives that idea a 84% disapproval rating. You’ll get to see today how little the GOP gives a darn what YOU think.
Did you suppose they handled this right from the start with Trump? We went from the RNC having Trump sign an agreement to them effectively abandoning Trump and kicking him to the curb and while apparently the majority of the “we the people” of the GOP support Trump? And you would suppose these same people will do what for “we the people” after the election should they get in? They acted as if this was a joke, good planning by the GOP? Wait till the ship is literally sinking and amount a smear campaign? And use Rubio, as odd as that is to be there “par excellence” for insults? And in truth the only viable option they have is Ted Cruz who is admittedly anti establishment?
What a mess.
Did you suppose they handled this right from the start with Trump? We went from the RNC having Trump sign an agreement to them effectively abandoning Trump and kicking him to the curb and while apparently the majority of the “we the people” of the GOP support Trump? And you would suppose these same people will do what for “we the people” after the election should they get in? They acted as if this was a joke, good planning by the GOP? Wait till the ship is literally sinking and amount a smear campaign? And use Rubio, as odd as that is to be there “par excellence” for insults? And in truth the only viable option they have is Ted Cruz who is admittedly anti establishment?
What a mess.
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St_Francis
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OH, no!!! Trump’s dad was a *Democrat??? *
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estesbob
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One party avidly supports the killing of 400,000 black children a year. The other opposes it. Now tell me which party really has the interest of African-Americans at heart? The policies of the Democrat Party have done more harm African-Americans than all the white supremacist groups in history
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queenofheartscv
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What about trumps mother? What dark background did she come from?
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queenofheartscv
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Apparently the American people need to understand if they vote trump they are simply too stupid to be left alone.
Mitt to the rescue!!!
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GaryTaylor
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The hypocrisy of the GOP is astonishing. Its exactly the reason why people are mad and support Trump apparently. I wonder if they considered if Trump leaves they automatically lose. They would cut off their nose despite their face and they bought ALL this upon them selves. They sicken me more than the Trump politics and propaganda.
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John_Lazarus
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Let’s assume that The Donald’s father was indeed arrested after that riot.
That does not make Donald a racist. It’s not even conclusive proof that his father was a racist, if all the details we have is just an arrest.
That does not make Donald a racist. It’s not even conclusive proof that his father was a racist, if all the details we have is just an arrest.
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Stylteralmaldo
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My objective in bringing up this topic has less to do with whether or not Donald Trump’s father was a racist and more to do with Donald Trump’s knowledge of white supremacy. It is difficult for me to fathom that he knows nothing of white supremacist groups such as the KKK. Maybe we can gleam from this that he didn’t know his father all that well? Maybe we can gleam from this that after he found out about his father’s past that he had no interest in looking into whether or not his father was connected to the KKK? Maybe Trump has selective memory? Maybe he has a form of dementia given he forgets a lot of things connected from his past?
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christofirst
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This reminds me of an earlier report about Woody Guthrie’s encounter with Donald’s father Fred Trump, his one-time landlord:
nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father
“He (Guthrie) thought that Fred Trump was one who stirs up racial hate, and implicitly profits from it,” referring to the senior Trump’s policy of not leasing to African Americans.
So maybe the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Personally, I don’t think Trump is so much a racist as a man who wants all the votes he can get, and if they come from white supremacists, so be it. He is a salesman trying to make the greatest sale of his life (at our expense, I say)
LeafByNiggle
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Read the words of Stylteralmaldo that you quoted once more. You will see that it was not muck raking. That posting referred to Trump’s comments just a few days ago when he apparently claimed not to know anything about white supremacist groups like the KKK. The history about his father just shows that he would indeed have known about it - just as most educated people who have ever studied American history should have known about it. Do we really want a President who knows so little about American history?
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Peter_J
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This honestly has to be the most desperate of the anti-GOP posts I’ve read, and that’s really saying something!
I not sure I dare even wonder why after last week’s endorsement you didn’t say
Apparently the American people need to understand if they vote for Rubio or Cruz they are simply too stupid to be left alone.
Chris Christie to the rescue!!!
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FreeEver
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I think you know the answer and you don’t like it. In the last several US Presidential elections the African-American community has spoken and overwhelmingly voted for one party.
I doubt that it will change that much in 2016. Some major event in either party will need to occur for that outcome to change in the future.
Lastly, I’m just pointing out that President Johnson’s signing of that historic piece of legislation changed the landscape of how African-Americans vote. I recall in the 1960 election that Nixon’s Vice-President selection Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. openly went into metropolitan inner-city African-American communities and sought their vote. More of that needs to occur from the party of Lincoln which includes your point.
God Bless and Peace to all.
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