Patters

It's kind of funny that when righties try to attack Democrats for racism, they're forced to target a 90-year old guy, who repudiated his past 40 years ago. Come on, Real World, can't you find someone a little more current. At least I choose David Duke who hasn't repudiated his racism, Trent Lott, George Allen, and the like. One of the things I'm most proud of the Democratic Party is when JFK chose to reject the racist Dixiecrats, even though that allowed Reagan and his Repug successors to snap most of them up and win elections.

Real World

What does his current age have to do with his being a KKK member when he was an affluent adult? Is he not a CURRENTLY elected member of the senate? Was Strom Thurmonds support of segregation ok because he was an old bag? A corksucker is a corksucker, obviously. I'm willing to forgive some of what these loosers do, but I don't forget it. That a politician takes money, votes, or support from people of less than likeable quality is a way of life in both parties. It's awful and disturbing to me, but to you, it's only awful & disturbing when there is an (R) involved. What I am trying to point out to you is that there are loosers in BOTH parties. You seem to think it only exists in one, which is laughable. Then again, you are the most partisan person in here, so should we be surprised by that? Nope.

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Harry Boy

Many Democrats Keep Their Racism In The Closet It Would Hurt Their Image Of Superiority, Tolerance And Everything That Is Good If They Were Openly Racist. (kennedy's Good Example Of That) The Kennedy's Broke Sammy Davis's Heart When He Finally Found Out They Were Using Him As Their "token Pet"

Why Can't You Rent The Original Disney Movie "song Of The South" Anywhere In America?

I Saw That Movie Years Ago And Can't Remember A Thing Racist In It.

I Have Read That The Reason It Isn't Shown Is That It Depicts Slaves Singing After Supper And In The Corn Fields And The "activists" Of Today Doesn't Want Anybody To Think That Some Of The Slaves Could Ever Be Happy Enough To Be In A "singing Mood".
Wer'nt songs written about them singing, in many of the story's told about slaves they mention music and singing, why would the Activist Saps want to change reality?

If This Is True, Isn't It "bull*****"?

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Patters

His age has nothing to do with it, but the fact that he repudiated those views in the 1960s is certainly relevant. The civil rights movement awakened many people to the wrongness of racism. Prior to the civil rights movements, there were prominent people who belonged to the KKK. A number of our presidents belonged to it, including Harry Truman, Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, and at least two Supreme Court Justices. If you read history, I'm sure you would understand that you have to judge people in the context of their time and environment.

And I'm not a Democratic partisan. I'm generally to the left of Party.

Real World

The Civil Rights movement helped bring to light how awful racism and segregation were? Really? Wow.

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patsfan13

The Fact is that Byrd used the tern "white ni**er" in an interview a couple of years ago not the 40's if any republican had used that term in the same context he would have been finished politically. The fact is Byrd was gicen a pass. Double standards and dems are hypocrite's again.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Real World

I never heard he had said that recently, so I googled it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FcrUu-_Vg

WTF is he talking about? Could you imagine Trent Lott saying this and people not demanding he resign? I remember that racist joke he made at Racist Thurmonds party that got a lot of pub, how come this didn't? Or did it, and was I sleeping when it did?

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Leo Tolstoy, 1897

patsfan13

It was buried by the hypocritical left wing Main Stream Media. If any pubbie had said that it would have been in the media every day non stop. Byrd is now a committee chairman. Go figure. Note the you tube clip isn't from the 40's as Patters would have you believe.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Patters

Sometimes you're just flat out wrong, and when you are, you respond with an irrelevant sound bite.

Do you you fail to grasp the significance of the civil rights movement. You seem to have no idea what the country was like prior to civil rights. You seem to think that everyone but Byrd was enlightened about race. It's as if you know nothing of the riots, the murders, the protests, the court cases. The civil rights movement helped enlighten the country to the problem of racism. Before that, it was okay to be a bigot in many circles. In fact, it was codified and sanctioned by politicians and judges at every level.

By the way, do you hate Harry Truman now that you know he belonged to the KKK? What do you think of the fact that historians rank him among the best presidents? Are they wrong?

Patters

Awfully PC of you. It was wrong of him, but I'd put it up there with Cheney's use of the F word.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Jun24.html

It was wrong of Cheney, but nothing most people got up in arms about. Or, perhaps, with your standards, you were disgusted by what he said?