Nitwit Mitt Romney Booed at NAACP Convention

President Kennedy is applauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King. Please read this article- http://www.humanevents.com/2006/08/16/why-martin-luther-king-was-republican/

 

I don't really want to say anything about Romney..least of all that he's the POTUS..

Chicken nuggets are ew..but I'll eat the strips with ranch sauce.
Yum!

 

jameswilson doing work in this thread. Ownin mofos left & right:smt068

 

*Yawn* Leaving out the meat and potatoes of the whole story just to make the modern GOP seem like crusaders for equality. I call horse shit. Here are some underlying facts which could be summarized, but fully read in the links provided.

Political realism vs. the practicality of Kennedy, who fully supported civil rights, but felt that the 1957 law wasn't enough to give blacks the right access to equality. Hell, even a professor of African-American descent like Ralph Bunche could tell you this factoid.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/john_kennedy_and_civil_rights.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1957_civil_rights_act.htm

In other words, it didn't go far enough. Granted, the GOP of that day were more likely to tackle some level of civil rights, but only allowed something like the right to vote to give some leverage. All of which is fairly good, but it didn't grant equality to blacks.

And yet, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1965 pretty much laid out the landmark foundation which has given more than just voting rights for blacks, but also hidden provisions which also allowed women to gain a political say in the world, which led up to the women's right movement.

Of course, civil rights was a minority thing and by minority, it wasn't limited to just ethnicity or "race."

 

You got your info from Human Events? Boy did they spinned that info. That journal criticized the Civil Rights movement in the 50's and 60's plus dissed King. Randolph,King,and the other leaders of Civil Rights and labor went to the White House after the March On Washington. MSaint you hit it the head on the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Some Republicans voted against it as well as Democrats,one of the GOP Congressmen was from my state of North Carolina which is not mentioned in those conservative journals. There are no Civil Rights crusaders in today's GOP since they had since either died or voted out of office by right wing members of the party.

 

You never believe a racist journal who in the past dissed Black people.