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Ant:
On Monday the Senate held a 'voice vote' on an anti-lynching resolution.  While the vote recieved unanimous support, those who refused to support the measure by declining to vote were allowed to hide from the public eye since a voice vote does not require the 'yea' or 'nay' of each senator to go on record.  As it turns out 20 racist and/or cowardly senators declined to support the legislation and a with a little research a list of their names was developed.  To be fair, Senators often miss votes for personal reasons, so I'm sure all senators on the list are not racists, or cowards that declined to vote out for fear of losign their racist supporters, but unsurprisingly we find the list is predominantly republican:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Christopher Bond (R-MO)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
George Voinovich (R-OH)

In total, 19 republicans declined to vote, while only one democrat did.  To put this in perspective, 27% of the republican party declined to support an anti-lynching resolution.  Woodrow's argument that if racism exists on both sides, then both sides are equally racist should by now be wrong beyond a doubt.  Not only was this assertion an obvious logical fallacy, but if you need additional evidence that the GOP recieves the majority of the racist vote in America one need only view this list.  So anyways... if it wasn't enough to know that:

a) a GOP support group, that Bill Frist, Delay, and Hastert affiliate with purchased a KKK mailing list for 80k.
b) Trent Lott is a republican who in 2002 said the country would be better off if Strom Thurmond was elected president.
c) Strom Thurmond is a republican who left the democratic party to run for president as a third party candidate on a openly racist platform supporting segregation.
d) The GOP rise to power initiated when the Dems introduced civil rights legislation causing the Democrat party to split, and the so-called dixiecrats to eventually leave the Dems to join the GOP, bringing with them four previously democratic states.

then you can add this latest development to the list and paint a pretty obvious picture. 
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The Senate on Monday formally apologized for having rejected decades of pleas to make lynching a federal crime as scores victims' descendants watched from the chamber's gallery.

On a voice vote and without opposition, the Senate passed a resolution expressing its regrets to the relatives as well as to the nearly 5,000 Americans -- mostly black males -- who were documented as having been lynched from 1880 to 1960 [...]

Dan Duster, a descendant of Ida B. Wells, a former slave who became an anti-lynching crusader, praised senators who publicly backed the resolution of apology and scorned those who did not.

No lawmaker opposed the measure, but 20 of the 100 senators had not signed a statement of support of it shortly before a vote was taken on a nearly empty Senate floor.

"I think it's politics. They're afraid of losing votes from people of prejudice," Duster said of those who did not sign the statement of support.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20050614/ts_nm/congress_lynching_dc

Twentytwofifty:
Well the is just further proof that the Republican party is racist and very likely all sons of Satan.

Ant:
An updated list:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN) - (202) 224-4944
Robert Bennett (R-UT) - (202) 224-5444
Thad Cochran (R-MS) - (202) 224-5054
John Cornyn (R-TX) - (202) 224-2934
Michael Crapo (R-ID) - (202) 224-6142
Michael Enzi (R-WY) - (202) 224-3424
Chuck Grassley (R-IA) - (202) 224-3744
Judd Gregg (R-NH) - (202) 224-3324
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) - (202) 224-5251
Kay Hutchison (R-TX) - (202) 224-5922
Jon Kyl (R-AZ) - (202) 224-4521
Trent Lott (R-MS) - (202) 224-6253
Richard Shelby (R-AL) - (202) 224-5744
John Sununu (R-NH) - (202) 224-2841
Craig Thomas (R-WY) - (202) 224-6441

Every democrat ended up supporting the resolution.  Unfortunately, all GOP senators weren't able to do the same - apparently not upsetting the KKK voters was more important than doing what's right. More disturbingly, if the GOP can't bring itself to acknowledge fault for blocking approximately 200 anti-lynching bills can we really expect much introspection from the party?  Ok silly question, the answer to that is already more than obvious.  The GOP is about as likely to apologize for its racist past as is it to suddenly wake up tomorrow and begin competently guiding the country.

The bigots have a lot to be proud about.

boycriedwolf619:

--- Quote from: C2Knuckles on June 14, 2005, 04:52:07 PM ---Well the is just further proof that the Republican party is racist and very likely all sons of Satan.

--- End quote ---
i agree

dexter:
that's crazy

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