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Trauma-san:
I guess nobody cares.

40 years ago today King gave his I have a dream speech after the march on washington.  What a great man, it's a shame his message has been twisted over the years.  When I was in school, they always had us read the speech, I hope they still teach that to kids.

King is the reason the modern democratic party secures 98 percent of the black vote, also.. it's a little known fact!  In the 60's, King would not align himself with either the republican party, or the democratic party, because he wanted to kind of play each party against the other, to get the best results for his people's civil rights.  He even said this in his autobiography, that he didn't want civil rights issues to turn into some sort of political fight.  At the time, many southern democrats were highly racist and opposed desegregation.  Many, Many democrats were racist, since most of the south was democratic and still had roots from the slave south.  The north was always free and always mainly republican.  Anyways.  

King was trying to get the civil rights bill passed, and knew Richard Nixon, JFK, etc.  He had ties to both parties.  Nixon (a republican) was actually a member of the NAACP!  and was very sympathetic to civil rights issues.  Nixon had a republican colleague, who opposed the civil rights bill, on a libertarian platform; he believed that government should be smaller, and have less control of people's lives...so he disagreed with passing a bill that would force people to act a certain way (namely, uphold civil rights!).  King decided that since Nixon had ties with this man, and while King believed the man was NOT a racist, he felt the message and opposition to the civil rights bill would support racism in the south... King said he felt he had no choice but to align himself with the democratic party, for the betterment of his people's cause.  

This has continued to this day, to this day the democratic party gets 98% of the black vote.  

It's my 'dream' that with the civil rights bill now long passed, minorities can make up their own mind about which candidate they should vote for, and that the stereotype of the racist republican can be shown for what it is : a stereotype.  

UnstoppableForce:
LMAO... this is getting hillarious....

PinkTowelGirl:

--- Quote from: The Governator on August 29, 2003, 02:14:14 AM ---LMAO... this is getting hillarious....

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i would agree...

UnstoppableForce:
He tries as hard as possible to come up with stupid theories which he assumes show that Democrats are evil and Republicans are the peoples' saviors. ::) Keep goin Scorpion, it's getting funnier. You are trying to be funny right? :-\

PinkTowelGirl:

--- Quote from: The Governator on August 29, 2003, 02:29:49 AM ---He tries as hard as possible to come up with stupid theories which he assumes show that Democrats are evil and Republicans are the peoples' saviors. ::) Keep goin Scorpion, it's getting funnier. You are trying to be funny right? :-\

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he is a fucking red neck honky... and i dont mean that in the racial since.. i mean the way he believe and shit.. what neck trauma.. are you going to marry you moms.. so you dont contact the HIV virus.. or what?


damn you a little bitch half the time with your  inbreeding believes..... ::)

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