Hampden-Sydney College Responds To Obama Reelection With Racial Unrest

There is no question that the Democratic party supported segregation for a very long time. That eventually changed, but it should not be forgotten, either. What I want to see is evidence in support of the assertion that the Democratic party engaged in violence or encouraged violence ("resorted to violence" were the exact words) as a tactic to preserve segregation. Still waiting.

 

Wow, I didn't realize how deeply the denial runs among lefties. Let's see if this helps jog your memory....dogs being let loose on black kids trying to attend white schools? Water hoses turned on protesters? All part of the dimocRAT run anti-segregation machine.

 

Republicans voted FOR the Civil Rights Act. Democrats were against it. Senator Byrd Filibustered against it after he founded his own chapter of the KKK. BTW, he was in office until 2010.
Lester Maddox was an admitted racist.
You must remember George Wallace.
Need I go on?

 

William Fulbright was Clinton's mentor...

 

I already acknowledged that Democrats supported segregation politically. The dogs and fire-hoses were employed by southern whites, but I see no evidence that it was specifically Democrats, and Democrats alone, who "resorted to violence" as a policy of the party. I could just as easily assert that it was Republicans who were responsible for lynching blacks, and going by your technique, I wouldn't have to bring any evidence, because "Republican denial!!!1!!"

 

I've been noticing that . They have their own agenda and the truth doesn't matter . Who cares what happened in the 50s and 60s , they should worry about today .

 

Demecrats were , are the two important words you said . To imply the Demorats are more rascist than the Republicans is laughable . I'm worried about today not how the Republican partys heroics in the Civil war , It's about todays actions .

 

Coin still thinks we are all "African-American" because the original humans came from Africa....like 125 thousand years ago. So going back several decades or a century or two to make a tangential argument is actually progress for him.

 

What would be your cut-off point in the past where people can no longer refer to themselves as "African-American"? 75 years? 100 years? 200 years? 600 years? 10,000 years? 90,000 years? When?

 

In conjunction with the civil rights movement, Johnson overcame southern resistance and convinced the Democratic-Controlled Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation. John F. Kennedy originally proposed the civil rights bill in June 1963. In late October 1963, Kennedy officially called the House leaders to the White House to line up the necessary votes for passage. After Kennedy's death, Johnson took the initiative in finishing what Kennedy started and broke a filibuster by Southern Democrats in March 1964; as a result, this pushed the bill for passage in the Senate. Johnson signed the revised and stronger bill into law on July 2, 1964. Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, "We have lost the South for a generation", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, Richard Nixon politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "secure" votes for the Republican Party by grabbing the advocates of segregation as well as most of the Southern Democrats.


Guess what those Southern Democrats are called today? The base of the Republican Party.

 

Democratic-Controlled Congress? Really!
June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists-one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor

 

There is no question that the strongest opposition to the civil rights bill of 1964 was made by Southern Democrats. As for your apparent incredulity that the Congress of the US was controlled by Democrats in 1964, rlm's cents, perhaps you should try checking the facts.

US House of Representatives in 1964: Democrats 295, Republicans 140

US Senate in 1964: Democrats 68, Republicans 32

There is some good information on the site whose writing you copy-pasted for the majority of your post. I don't know why you couldn't be bothered to give it credit, and link to it.

 

Sorry, but you missed the point. It was not the Democrat's part of the Senate that supported it. 94% of the Republicans supported it. Although, on second thought, maybe it was the Democrats he really had to convince.