Re: 'R' in Republican Stands for Racist

From: Robert Monsen (rcsurname_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:28:36 GMT

Tom Seim wrote:
> Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<4179B96F.7080009@nospam.com>...
>
>>Tom Seim wrote:
>>
>>>Then take the case of Trent Lott, who made the fatal
>>>sin of praising a man who had been a racist, Strom Thurmond. No
>>>apology by Lott could placate the libs, who smelled blood in the
>>>water. Only a resignation would do. And the bastards got it!
>>
>>Here is the 1948 platform of Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party in the
>>Presidential race of 1948:
>
> ...
>
> You need a Democratic Party history refresher:
>
> "By 1921, the Klan numbered almost 100,000 members and money flooded
> its coffers. At its peak in 1924, 40,000 uniformed Klansmen paraded
> through the streets of Washington, D.C., during the Democratic
> National Convention. Like a modern political lobby, the group was so
> influential that many politicians felt compelled to court it or even
> to join, particularly in the Midwestern states. Senators, congressmen,
> governors, judges at all levels, even future President Harry Truman
> donned the hood and robe (though Truman shortly quit, apparently
> disgusted by an anti-Catholic tirade). "

Seim quoted this from:

<http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/KKK.asp?xpicked=4&item=18>

about half way down.

Actually, the neocon movement is mainly a result of most of these guys
(like Lott, and most recently the infamous Zell Miller) switching over
to the the republican party. When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights
Act, he remarked that the democrats have lost the south for a
generation. This is true, because all of the KKK members left, and
appear to have moved into the leadership of the republican party.

It seems particularly ironic that Republicans in Florida have been
accused of trying to supress the black vote they previously fought to
protect:

<http://www.trickology.com/thebored/showthread.php?t=7443>
(This is copy of a Bob Herbert column from the NYT op-ed page)

I suspect many republicans are now regretting this faustian bargain,
which gave them control of Congress for the first time in a generation,
at the cost of some of their most honored principles. There also appears
to be a movement within the republican party to purge those old-style
moderate republicans from their ranks.

<http://www.rpcc.org/cgi-bin/opedmanager/readarticle.cgi?article=21>
<http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=17228>
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/26/moderates/index_np.html> 

-- 
Regards,
   Robert Monsen
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
     - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
        on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
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