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I don't take offense to what they're doing, where they're doing it.
I do however think that Mr. Beck is pretty disengenious with his reasoning, I actually heard him say
"We're going to reclaim the civil rights movement"
What? Reclaim the civil rights movement? Are conservatives being hosed down by firefighters at bridges? Or did I miss something...
Reclaim the Civil Rights movement?
I guess they want Libs to quit claiming that Kennedy and Johnson had anything to do with the Civil Rights, it was the conservatives who thought of it and made sure it passed! Even the so-red states in the south, like Alabama, were fighting hard to get the civil rights passed!
Wikipedia:
The first march took place on March 7, 1965 — "Bloody Sunday" — when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas
By the 1960s, the efforts of the local government to maintain racial segregation had earned Birmingham a new name, the Tragic City. Efforts to remedy a history of pervasive racial inequality continue today throughout Birmingham, through alliances among citizens that were once thought impossible.
Civil Rights: Birmingham, Alabama | Africana Online
JACKSON, Mississippi, March 17 (AFP) - Secret files from a segregation-era state spy agency were being unsealed here Tuesday in a move expected to shed new light on Mississippi authorities' fight against black civil rights.
Mississippi unseals secret files on war against black civil rights