[lbo-talk] racial divide

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 07:58:17 PDT 2005


Reagan lauded Jefferson Davis, hadn't heard that before. http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:zUDwi71Bh_UJ:www.rightwingnews.com/comments.php%3Fid%3D2373+reagan+philadephia+mississippi
>...History is your best source for understanding the transformation
of the bigoted Jim Crow Democratic south to the bigoted Jim Crow Republican south after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Facts? For example, why did Thurgood Marshall call Reagan the most racist president in history? Well, let me start you out. Reagan began his 1980 campaign in Philadephia, Mississippi (where, Cheney, Goodman and Schwerner were murdered, M.P.) on the grounds of an old KKK meeting place where he talked about 'state's rights,' then a code word for segregation. Then he went to Stone Mountain, Georgia, where he stated that Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, was his greatest hero. Then he went to Charlotte, North Carolina, which at the time had one of the most successful busing programs to achieve integration in the country, and stated that he was against busing. Then he went to Bob Jones University in South Carolina, a Biblical college which is based on teaching that Bible is against the mixing of the races and miscegenation, and spoke before the Confederate flag. Need I say more. Reagan more than any candidate before him solidified the Jim Crow base of the Republican party, and while Bush attempted to do the same with his trip to Bob Jones to defeat McCain, what he actually did was to repeat the Reagan call to racism. Want more facts? Read.

by joeg on 2004-08-28 21:05:02

-- Michael Pugliese



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