Racism and Fatboy Rush

[telemann.livejournal.com]

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[http://users.livejournal.com/gaburieru_/]

oh, lather...

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Well, I was sOOoo tempted to be VERY naughty, and stick that name on the computer screen before I posted this, but I resisted.

[deadpansev.livejournal.com]

What is this in reference to? Did Rush Limbaugh say that?

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

Nah, Lather is just trolling some more.

My bad I thought this was one post down.

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

Rush Limbaugh has been claiming that the attack on the school bus where a bunch of black kids beat up a white kid was racist. I think that's what the cartoon was referring to, the fact that Limbaugh and his ilk automatically assume that because it was black kids beating up white kids it must be anti-white racism.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Interesting... master race-baiter Matt Drudge (remember this incident (http://www.whudat.com/newsblurbs/more/mccain-campaign-worker-ashley-todd-admits-1681025081/) last year??) posts as a HUGE lead headline the story of some bullies beating a kid up on a schoolbus. Why? Cause the bullies were black, and the kid was white. This is what happens in Obama's America, Rush Limbaugh faithfully followed with. A day later, there was an incident where an innocent black man was assaulted by a white man who screamed racial epithets at her. Spoiler alert... this story never appeared on Drudge. Because it didn't serve his purpose of starting up tensions among conservative whites against blacks (and Obama) in this country.

As of this very second, Drudge himself has this headline up somewhere near the top on his site... "White supremacist groups call for protests in bus attack...". Drudge posts this headline with no sense of shame or irony. He is a real piece of shit.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

Remember there was a case in NYC when several white guys discovered that their car was broken into went out on the street saw several black guys and beat them up? And all of them ended up in prison - white guys for racial assault and black guys for breaking into the car? I wished they ended up in the same cell. At that point I thought that we are doing some progress here.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

when did lather get a puppy? awww

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Also, that's the wrong skyline. Lather lives in DC!

[geckoman.livejournal.com]

Careful there, Fido...look at what happened to the previous dogs in the household.

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

Why Martin Luther King Was Republican
It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

You could have just linked to the article, you know.

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

When the last Civil Rights accomplishment you can point to is 50 years ago, you know you have a problem. I guess you never noticed all the Dixiecrats who fled to the Republican Party? Perhaps it never crossed your mind that Kennedy and Johnson, who pushed through the Civil Rights laws, were proud Democrats or that most of the veterans of the Civil Rights movement, and the members of King's family (except maybe the anti-gay bigot preacher one) are Democrats now. Or maybe you know these things and you're just a troll.

Smooth move not posting the source, did you get this off of World Nut Daily?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

and in 1970, Nixon fucked it all up with the Southern Strategy, the Dixiecrats joined the GOP, and it was all downhill from there. Were Martin Luther King Jr. alive today, he would most assuredly NOT be a Republican.

And if he were, you would call him a RINO, and seek his ouster.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

This is laughable... conservatives-- for the most part, with a few exceptions-- opposed MLK and the civil rights movement as a whole.

The push for civil rights came from JFK, and then from LBJ after his death. Last time I checked, these weren't conservative Presidents. Conservatives opposed these efforts, with the same fearful rhetoric with which they oppose things today... that if things changed, America would be doomed, etc. I could show you, for instance, intense criticism of MLK and the civil rights movement (http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/10/15/national-review-attacked-martin-luther-king-over-nobel-peace-prize/) by the National Review and other top conservative publications of the day. Its founder-- the infamous William F. Buckley-- said in the late 1950s that "the central question that emerges... is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race."

The only proof that conservatives today cite to attempt to try and prove any of this away is by noting the many southern Democrats of that era opposed it too (*). This is true. BUT, do you know what happened to these southern Democrats? After LBJ (whose '64 candidacy MLK endorsed) passed civil rights legislation, they all became Republicans (LBJ famously noted at the time, he knew losing this bloc this would be an unfortunate side-affect for the party). The Republicans of today.

(*Sidenote: It was actually racism that cost us our best shot at universal health-care when President Truman pushed for it. There was objection from the more racist members of Congress that universal health-care would force the desegregation of hospitals-- it would have-- and so they opposed it. Ultimately, Truman just couldn't get enough votes to proceed.)

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

PS- As has already been posted here, no one who casually uses the word "Nigger" and has repeatedly referred to Obama as "monkey boy" should be giving anyone a lecture on race.

Everything you have ever posted here-- from the Vick and ACORN obsessions-- is based your hatred of poor black people and the mods may put up with your pathetic trolling act, and your inability to respond to any substance that is thrown your way, but I intend to keep treating you like the racist troll you are.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Again, those Republicans are not today's Republicans. King was a Republican in an era when Republicans were reasonable, pragmatic, mostly intelligent, often genteel or cultured, and, more or less, respectful of people who didn't agree with them.

Do I really need to say "now, not so fucking much?"

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans.

Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation.

Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that ****** preacher."

Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

mlk jr. was a socialist; his party identity was meaningless

you can't santa clausify him any more than he already has been

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched.

The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were still discriminating against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia did not switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are still controlled by Democrats.

Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous.

After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites).

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Republicans and the minimum wage... Link 1 (http://politics4geekz.blogspot.com/2007/03/ladies-and-gentlemen-your-republican_10.html)/Link 2 (http://politics4geekz.blogspot.com/2007/01/george-will-minimum-wage-is-affront-to_04.html)

[lather2002.livejournal.com]

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.

In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

republicans should also stop using the racist appeals of the southern strategy and stop hating black people