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Democratic lawmaker hits justice as ‘Uncle Thomas’

So it wasn't the 1900s then

1900s (decade) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It was.

a period when the United States had the strongest and freest economy in the world and people from every nation were doing their best to emigrate there.

Subjective at most. By today's standards the 1900s 20% unemployment rate would be abysmal and the 'freest economy' was strongly regulated by cartels, political parties and anti-union forces. You understanding of history is almost as weak as your standards for being an independent.
 
Im not saying social programs are all bad.

Im saying expansion of them.... and continued use of them leads to a society dependent upon the government for sustenance. That is not something we should WANT.

Thus we should DISCOURAGE the use of these programs in every way possible.

That would be the sensible route but when the politicians promise something for free, with the idea that someone else will pay for it, the temptation for those with little knowledge of economics, or little interest in the future of their country, will find the idea difficult to resist.
 
You read your link, right?
Subjective at most. By today's standards the 1900s 20% unemployment rate would be abysmal and the 'freest economy' was strongly regulated by cartels, political parties and anti-union forces. You understanding of history is almost as weak as your standards for being an independent.

Not subjective at all. Here are some of the stats.List of regions by past GDP (PPP) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Social Programs create dependency.....



That is BS and "the" standard conservative argument...... but in one way you are right.....Seniors are dependant on Social Security, so that they don't have to subsist on a can of cat food like the old days; they are dependent on Medicare for basic medical care, so their kids won't find them dead on the kitchen floor; poor people are dependent on Medicaid for medical care and food for their children...
You people like to cut off your noses to save your morally corrupt faces......
 
You may be right, Juanita. I certainly don't want to remove the voting rights for anyone, and all sides could agree on that.



Thank you Grant--that was quite gracious of you and I appreciate that you can see the bigger picture....
 
You must hate it in Oklahoma, since she wasn't covered under section 5.

Has anyone lost the right to vote? No? Call us when they di. :roll:



What does me now living in Oklahoma have to do with anything? We don't, to my knowledge, have Sunday voting here, or early voting either.....I live very rural and remote, so have little interaction with the conservative majority....I like it that way....
 
What does me now living in Oklahoma have to do with anything? We don't, to my knowledge, have Sunday voting here, or early voting either.....I live very rural and remote, so have little interaction with the conservative majority....I like it that way....

I'm just wondering how black folks in Oklahoma get along, since they have no voting rights protection.
 
Racist Democrats enacted Jim Crow Laws

Racist Democrats blocked the schools and unleashed dogs on Blacks

Racist Democrats opposed Brown vs Board of Education

Racist Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act

Racist Democrats opposed lynching laws

Some things never change
 
racist democrats enacted jim crow laws

racist democrats blocked the schools and unleashed dogs on blacks

racist democrats opposed brown vs board of education

racist democrats filibustered the civil rights act

racist democrats opposed lynching laws

some things never change

obama ate babies

democrats rape babies

liberals eat jews and rape babies
 
obama ate babies

democrats rape babies

liberals eat jews and rape babies

If any of this was actually true you'd just blame it on Bush or the GOP regardless
 
That is BS and "the" standard conservative argument...... but in one way you are right.....Seniors are dependant on Social Security, so that they don't have to subsist on a can of cat food like the old days; they are dependent on Medicare for basic medical care, so their kids won't find them dead on the kitchen floor; poor people are dependent on Medicaid for medical care and food for their children...
You people like to cut off your noses to save your morally corrupt faces......

You must have not spent any time in the ghetto.

Social programs create entire neighborhoods of dependency.

Food Stamps, Welfare, Staying pregnant so they can keep getting paid.
 
You read your link, right?

Not subjective at all. Here are some of the stats.List of regions by past GDP (PPP) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Subjective indeed. GDP does not paint a picture of what the economy inside the country is like. It's about as relevant as saying Wal-Mart is making record profits in a recession. The poverty of the 1900s make the current recession seem like 1995.

http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2644.pdf

Unemployment in US during 1900s: 20%

Unemployment amongst women: 95%
 
You must have not spent any time in the ghetto.

Social programs create entire neighborhoods of dependency.

Food Stamps, Welfare, Staying pregnant so they can keep getting paid.



Sorry, my friend, I have lived in the ghetto...Neighborhoods are formed by how much you can pay in rent, so poor people land up living in poor neighborhoods...Staying pregnant to get welfare is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard and is a concept that dates back to the 60s...For every 1 woman who is satisfied with living on peanuts, there are 30 struggling to get out of poverty...
 
I'm just wondering how black folks in Oklahoma get along, since they have no voting rights protection.

As long as they have a currant photo ID, I assume that they can vote on voting day, but if they don't, they will have to go through hell and high water and some bucks to get one....or they can't vote--our voting cards are no longer valid...
 
Racist Democrats enacted Jim Crow Laws

Racist Democrats blocked the schools and unleashed dogs on Blacks

Racist Democrats opposed Brown vs Board of Education

Racist Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act

Racist Democrats opposed lynching laws

Some things never change

Racist Democrats enacted Jim Crow Laws

Racist conservatives blocked the schools and unleashed dogs on Blacks

Racist conservatives opposed Brown vs Board of Education

Racist conservatives filibustered the Civil Rights Act

Racist conservatives opposed lynching laws

Some things never change.

Some things do change. Most racist conservatives are now Republicans.
 
Subjective indeed. GDP does not paint a picture of what the economy inside the country is like. It's about as relevant as saying Wal-Mart is making record profits in a recession. The poverty of the 1900s make the current recession seem like 1995.

http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2644.pdf

Unemployment in US during 1900s: 20%

Unemployment amongst women: 95%

You should know that records of working people were not as thorough now as they were then but, in any case, during that payer the US had two recessions, one for 23 months and one for 13 months. That would suggest that there was prosperity for 70% of the time.

How does that compare with Obama?
 
As long as they have a currant photo ID, I assume that they can vote on voting day, but if they don't, they will have to go through hell and high water and some bucks to get one....or they can't vote--our voting cards are no longer valid...

Looks like it will prevent possible voter fraud. That's a good thing.
 
Racist Democrats enacted Jim Crow Laws

Racist conservatives blocked the schools and unleashed dogs on Blacks

Racist conservatives opposed Brown vs Board of Education

Racist conservatives filibustered the Civil Rights Act

Racist conservatives opposed lynching laws

Some things never change.

Some things do change. Most racist conservatives are now Republicans.

All those actions were taken by the Democrats. It's as much of their history as Robert Byrd, the one man who most typifies the history of the Democratic Party
 
All those actions were taken by the Democrats. It's as much of their history as Robert Byrd, the one man who most typifies the history of the Democratic Party

Then I guess Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond must typify the Republicans.
 
I think the point was that during the civil rights years the South was controlled by Democrats on almost every level of government from the Governor on down. That makes it difficult to shift blame for the trouble in the south to the republicans and their policies.
 
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the Republican Party's strategy of gaining political support or winning elections in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3][4][5]

Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.

The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater[6][7] in the late 1960s.[8] The strategy was successful in many regards. It contributed to the electoral realignment of Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began trying to appeal again to black voters, though with little success.[8]

Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[9] but merely popularized it.[10] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[2]
While Phillips sought to polarize ethnic voting in general, and not just to win the white South, the South was by far the biggest prize yielded by his approach. Its success began at the presidential level, gradually trickling down to statewide offices, the Senate, and the House, as some legacy segregationist Democrats retired or switched to the GOP. In addition, the Republican Party worked for years to develop grassroots political organizations across the South, supporting candidates for local school boards and offices.......

In 1980, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan's proclaiming "I believe in states' rights" at his first Southern campaign stop was cited as evidence that the Republican Party was building upon the Southern strategy again.[5][12] Reagan launched his campaign at the Neshoba County Fair[13] near Philadelphia, Mississippi, the county where the three civil rights workers were murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer......
Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discussed politics in the South:

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."[4]

Herbert wrote in the same column, "The truth is that there was very little that was subconscious about the G.O.P.'s relentless appeal to racist whites. Tired of losing elections, it saw an opportunity to renew itself by opening its arms wide to white voters who could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for blacks."[1]
Southern strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the Republican Party's strategy of gaining political support or winning elections in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3][4][5]

Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.

The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater[6][7] in the late 1960s.[8] The strategy was successful in many regards. It contributed to the electoral realignment of Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began trying to appeal again to black voters, though with little success.[8]

Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[9] but merely popularized it.[10] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[2]
While Phillips sought to polarize ethnic voting in general, and not just to win the white South, the South was by far the biggest prize yielded by his approach. Its success began at the presidential level, gradually trickling down to statewide offices, the Senate, and the House, as some legacy segregationist Democrats retired or switched to the GOP. In addition, the Republican Party worked for years to develop grassroots political organizations across the South, supporting candidates for local school boards and offices.......

In 1980, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan's proclaiming "I believe in states' rights" at his first Southern campaign stop was cited as evidence that the Republican Party was building upon the Southern strategy again.[5][12] Reagan launched his campaign at the Neshoba County Fair[13] near Philadelphia, Mississippi, the county where the three civil rights workers were murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer......
Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discussed politics in the South:

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."[4]

Herbert wrote in the same column, "The truth is that there was very little that was subconscious about the G.O.P.'s relentless appeal to racist whites. Tired of losing elections, it saw an opportunity to renew itself by opening its arms wide to white voters who could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for blacks."[1]
Southern strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And yet, in 1968, as George Wallace's poll numbers declined late in the Presidential race, Wallace's voters went to Humphrey, not Nixon.:peace
 
the Libs hate Clarence Thomas because he is a black man that doesn't tow the "party line", that he should "think like a black man".

It makes them crazy when latinos, blacks or women, take typically conservative stands on a subject. That is simply not politically correct.
 
Then I guess Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond must typify the Republicans.

Although some of their positions were not to be admired neither were ever members of the KKK. Also the Republican Party was the party of freedom for minorities, despite members like Jesse Helms.

Here's Bill Clinton. Clinton Defends Byrd's KKK Ties: "He Was Trying To Get Elected"

Well Robert Byrd had more than a 'fleerting' interest in the KKK. He arose to become a "Kleagle", responsible for enlisting other bigots (Democrats) into his organization.

"The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union". Naturally he voted against both Thurgood |Marshall and Clarence Thomas.

Of course Strom Thurmond was a Democrat when he voted against the Civil Rights Act, the same Act Robert Byrd filibustered.
 
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the Republican Party's strategy of gaining political support or winning elections in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3][4][5]

Here are the facts, not hearsay

The Nixon years witnessed the first large-scale integration of public schools in the South.[174] Nixon sought a middle way between the segregationist Wallace and liberal Democrats, whose support of integration was alienating some Southern whites.[175] Hopeful of doing well in the South in 1972, he sought to dispose of desegregation as a political issue before then. Soon after his inauguration, he appointed Vice President Agnew to lead a task force, which worked with local leaders—both white and black—to determine how to integrate local schools. Agnew had little interest in the work, and most of it was done by Labor Secretary George Shultz. Federal aid was available, and a meeting with President Nixon was a possible reward for compliant committees. By September 1970, less than ten percent of black children were attending segregated schools. By 1971, however, tensions over desegregation surfaced in Northern cities, with angry protests over the busing of children to schools outside their neighborhood to achieve racial balance. Nixon opposed busing personally but enforced court orders requiring its use.[176]

In addition to desegregating public schools, Nixon implemented the Philadelphia Plan in 1970—the first significant federal affirmative action program.[177] He also endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment after it passed both houses of Congress in 1972 and went to the states for ratification.[178] Nixon had campaigned as an ERA supporter in 1968, though feminists criticized him for doing little to help the ERA or their cause after his election. Nevertheless, he appointed more women to administration positions than Lyndon Johnson had.[179]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
 
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