I am using inept imploder (Internet Explorer)instead of Fire Fox.
Let me interject some historical facts here:
LOL man you have lost it. Instead of finding facts to counter my arguments you just call me a liar over and over again, as if that will make your silly assertions come true. None of what you said above makes any lick of sense at all. (I have a "perception problem"? Lol do you do standup?) For your own sake, educate yourself in some real history man -- if you are denying basic civil rights history then you have no business spouting your conservative nonsense on the internet.
My god conservatives these days are so clouded by their preconceived views of the world, you guys can't even see straight anymore. Good luck getting through the future man, cause you're gonna be one unhappy camper.
Oh, and one other thing: You shouldn't make so many personal and character attacks (also known as trolling). It's not good for your blood pressure.
Glad you're holding others to different standards than you hold yourself.
Let's look at the facts on this subject:
In 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes!
For the evidence of this please refer to these links:
http://www.congresslink.org/civil/cr21.html and http://www.congresslink.org/civil/cr1.html
"In enacting the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts, Congress provided the Department of Justice with basic tools for protecting the right to vote -- and this Administration has not hesitated to use those tools." This is from CR1 link and the administration being referred here is the JFK administration.
JFK evolved into a true believer in the civil rights movement when it became such an overwhelming historical and moral imperative that he had no choice. As a matter of record, when JFK was a senator from Massachusetts, he had an opportunity to vote on the 1957 Civil Rights Act pushed by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Instead, he voted to send it to the conservative Senate Judiciary Committee.
His lukewarm approach for the Act included his vote to allow juries to hear contempt cases. The 1950s, does not have JFK being a civil rights activist, either. The 1957 Act to benefits blacks was passed by with the aid of Republicans (hmmm why did they need the help of the Republicans when they had a majority?) This was the water-down 1964 bill which JFK finally backed.
He only began to outline civil rights legislation only after most of the country was behind it and ready for it. The 1960 Presidential Campaign, JFK avoided the civil rights issue altogether because he could not afford to antagonize Southern Democrats, whose support he desperately needed to defeat Richard Nixon. Even After JFK was elected, he failed to suggest any new civil rights proposals in 1961 or 1962. That failure was for pragmatic political reasons and so that he could get the rest of his agenda passed.
By introducing specific civil rights legislation in the Senate would have meant a filibuster, DUE TO THOSE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS, and the obstruction of other business he felt was just as crucial as civil rights legislation. A filibuster would have happened for sure and it would have taken 67 members to support cloture to end such a filibuster. Sixty-seven votes JFK believed he did not have.
"In combating a filibuster by southern (democrats) senators, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen delivered a persuasive speech on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He hoped to convince as many as possible of his Republican colleagues that it was time to close debate and allow a vote on the bill, which Congress had been considering for a full year." From CR 21 link.
Everett Dirksen was a force for the Civil Rights act for during both of his tenures in the House and the Senate, "he had built a solid record in support of civil rights, having introduced a bill for a civil rights commission in the House in 1953 and worked for the 1960 civil rights bill in the Senate. To Dirksen, civil rights represented an important moral issue, even though he seldom received the political support of Chicago's black voters." CR 21 LINK
"In the spring of 1963, President John F. Kennedy submitted a draft civil rights bill to Congress. While the Senate Judiciary Committee delayed in acting on the measure, the House moved ahead, finally passing the bill in February 1964, less than three months after the assassination of the president. Even though the Senate eventually managed to bypass the conservative Judiciary Committee by placing the bill directly on the calendar for action, intransigent southern senators, primarily Democrats, were determined to filibuster. Under a provision designed to protect the rights of the minority, the Senate, unlike the House, allows a determined group of senators to block legislation by carrying on extended debate. In 1964, the Senate's cloture rule required the votes of sixty-seven senators to close off debate and bring a measure to a vote. The support of a substantial number of Republicans was essential in order to achieve such a "supermajority" on the civil rights bill." From CR 21 Link
"Later that same day, the Senate voted, 71 to 29, to shut off debate, with 27 Republicans joining 44 Democrats in voting to end the filibuster. This marked the first time in history that the Senate had voted cloture on a civil rights bill. After the Senate passed the measure on June 19, the House accepted the Senate version and President Johnson signed it into law on July 2. Among other provisions, the act as passed contained sections relating to discrimination in education, in voting, and in public accommodations such as restaurants, theaters, hotels and motels; it also strengthened the Civil Rights Commission and established an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." CR 21 Link
Remember that the Republicans were the minority party at the time. Nonetheless, H.R.7152 passed the House on Feb. 10, 1964. Of the 420 members who voted, 290 supported the civil rights bill and 130 opposed it.
Republicans favored the bill 138 to 34; Democrats supported it 152-96. Republicans supported it in higher proportions than Democrats. Even though those Democrats were Southern segregationists, without Republicans the bill would have failed. Republicans were the other much-needed leg of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The efforts of politicians were needed to write all the changes and efforts into law. Politicians did not lead charge on civil rights – again, they just took credit, especially the Democrats.
For further schooling of the Civil Rights please read this curriculum because it seesm that you are the one that needs the history lesson: http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/3/82.03.04.x.html
Since Abraham Lincoln, Republicans have been there for blacks when it counted. Nevertheless, Democrats invariably take all the credit for the success of the civil rights movement and invariably fail to give any credit to Republicans.
