On This Day in 1964...
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Democrats Filibustered the Civil Rights Act
June 10, 1964, was a dramatic day in the United States Senate. For the first time in its history, cloture was invoked on a civil rights bill, ending a record-breaking filibuster by Democrats that had consumed fifty-seven working days. The hero of the hour was minority leader Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.).
Dirksen, the Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate, condemned the Democrats’ 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Leading the Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). Byrd, who got into politics as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, spoke against the bill for fourteen straight hours. Democrats still call Robert Byrd “the conscience of the Senate.”
In his speech, Senator Dirksen called on the Democrats to end their filibuster and accept racial equality.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/on-this-day-in-1964-democrats-fi...
Thus endeth todays history lesson.
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It's funny when Republicans
It's funny when Republicans pretend they aren't racist.
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Thom would like to remind you
Thom would like to remind you that Lincoln was a Republican.
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Yeah, but what the hell does
Yeah, but what the hell does that have to do with the cost of a Mar-a-Lago membership in 2017?
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>>>Thus endeth todays history
>>>Thus endeth todays history lesson.
And tomorrow's history lesson, Nixon's Southern Strategy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
"In American politics, the southern strategy was the Republican Party's policy to gain political support in the South by appealing to the racism against African Americans harbored by many southern white voters"
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<<<>>>It's funny when
<<<>>>It's funny when Republicans pretend they aren't racist.
agreed.
and....troll thread.