Rachel, Rachel, Rachel…do you know who the governor was, for the state of Alabama, in 1965? George C Wallace – Democrat. As a matter of fact, Democrat governors owned Alabama from 1874-1987, with the exception of a Populist Governor from 1896-1900.

**Rachel continued with another question this time from the state of Georgia:
“If you lived in Georgia in 1958, you would have faced questions like this one: Who is the solicitor general of the state judicial circuit in which you live and who is the judge of such circuit? If such circuit has more than one judge, name them all.”

“If you wanted to vote in Georgia in 1958, those are the questions you would have to answer. But, of course, not everyone would face those questions. The board of registrars had the sole authority to determine who got asked which literacy test questions and whose answers to those questions rendered them ineligible to vote. The idea was that black voters weren‘t being denied the right to vote based on race. That would be illegal. No, those voters just couldn‘t pass this literacy test.”

**Well, I’m going to ask the same question. Who was the governor of Georgia in 1958 and what was his political party? Answer – Samuel Marvin Griffin, Sr. – Democrat

**The third state that Rachel properly identifies as a state with laws meant to prevent blacks from voting. That was the state of South Carolina. Here’s what Rachel had to say:

“On September 12th, 1895, “The New York Times” reported on the state of South Carolina‘s attempts to suppress the black vote. The article was titled “Negroes Must Be Barred. White Supremacy Demanded by the South Carolina Convention.”

“Among the things South Carolina was considering to preserve white supremacy, to prevent black people from voting, was something they called the Mississippi plan, a plan which, quote, “requires an educational qualification, consisting of the ability to read or understand any section of the Constitution of the state, such ability to be determined by the registration commissioners.”

“The New York Times” explained at the time—again, this is 1895 — that the result would wholly abolish the Negro majority and any immediate fear of it.” And, of course, that‘s exactly what happened.”

“Literacy tests were how African-Americans were kept from voting in this country for some 70 years. This isn‘t ancient history. The Alabama test I quoted from before? That‘s from 1965. These tests were one of the main targets of the Voting Rights Act pushed by President Lyndon Johnson that same year.”

**OK, who was the governor of South Carolina during the systematic discrimination of blacks? John G Evans – Democrat!…Again!

That last minute crash research, Rachel did, of our (Democrats) racist history wasn’t very thorough. Rachel failed to mention or even hint on these facts while lambasting Tea Party supporters (whom are identified as conservative, even if they aren’t registered Republicans).

“I can see in your eyes, you want to know, ‘How do I take advantage of this incredible opportunity? How do I make sure New Orleans is not overrun with Mexican workers,’”

“And I don’t care what people are saying in Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be.”

As for Goldwater, I wish we had him around today. He remained true to his conservative beliefs, but was not a petty, nasty individual, as so many rightists are today. And, he wasn’t an obstructionist, either. As aghast as he would be with health care reform, he’d be equally aghast with the Demented Turtle as majority leader of the Senate. Goldwater was a national treasure, and the man responsible for modern conservatism in America. Reagan, the Father of American Budget Deficits, did not form the ideological framework.

Harry Reid was wowed by Obamas oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a ˜light-skinned African American ˜with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one, as he said privately.

In the article published Wednesday, Biden is quoted evaluating presidential rivals Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, former Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois. His remarks about Obama, the only African-American serving in the Senate, drew the most scrutiny.

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton drew criticism Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in which she told a mostly black audience at a Harlem church that Republican leaders have run the House “like a plantation”

A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.

The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — an aide later said she misspoke — to Bill Clinton dismissing Sen. Barack Obama’s image in the media as a “fairy tale” — generated outrage on black radio, black blogs and cable television. And now they’ve drawn the attention of prominent African-American politicians.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is under fire for a comment he made after President Obama’s State of the Union Adress. The host of the show Hardball said following the speech:

“I was trying to think about who he was tonight. And uh, it’s interesting. He is post-racial, by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour….

On Tuesday’s “Countdown,” Olbermann awarded O’Reilly both the “worser” and “worst” person in the world awards to his higher-rated competition at the Fox News Channel. O’Reilly, Olbermann thundered, is a 59-year old “passive-aggressive racist” for his recent remarks about his visit to a soul food restaurant.

Yet 16 days earlier, Olbermann narrated over a highlight reel of the September 9 Buffalo Bills/Denver Bronco game with an odd word-play involving a black wide receiver’s first name: With the Denver drive having stalled, Roscoe Parrish on the punt return. Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles at its finest.

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Monday night made a comment that many Hispanic-Americans are sure to find racially offensive.

Discussing Sunday’s Super Bowl on “Countdown,” Olbermann told his audience: “New York Senator Clinton and adopted Giants fan watched the game in Minnesota and told The Associated Press, ‘Super Bowl, Super Tuesday — we have one down, let’s get the other.’

“This as her husband watched the game in New Mexico with the former [sic] Governor Bill Richardson, possibly asking Richardson for an endorsement and then would you please pass the guacamole.”

Lizette J. Olmos, communications director for the League of United Latin American Citizens, told Newsmax that Olbermann’s remark “was not necessary and could be perceived as being insensitive to Hispanic viewers.”

There is no doubt that Richardson himself, a Hispanic-American, would find fault with the use of the word “guacamole” in that context.

He was unavailable for comment today, but he did respond to a similar comment made by Hillary Clinton in January.

During a campaign stop in Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton — making the point that the problems American face are connected — told a largely Hispanic crowd: “We treat them as though one is guacamole and one is chips.”

“You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.”
-Senator Joe Biden

Mahatma Gandhi “ran a gas station down in Saint Louis.”

-Senator Hillary Clinton

Some junior high n*gger kicked Steve’s ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n*gger down. However it was, it was Steve’s fault. He had the n*gger down, he let him up. The n*gger blindsided him.”

– Roger Clinton, the President’s brother on audiotape

“You’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”
– Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)

“Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey’s cars?”

– Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers

Blacks and Hispanics are “too busy eating watermelons and tacos” to learn how to read and write.” — Mike Wallace, CBS News. Source: Newsmax

Black on Black

“In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master … exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.”
– Harry Belafonte

“Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They’d rather take pictures with black children than feed them.” — Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s Campaign Manager for the 2000 election

(On Clarence Thomas) “A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.” — Spike Lee

“He’s married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn’t want to be black.”

– California State Senator Diane Watson’s on Ward Connerly’s interracial marriage

Comments From The Past

“Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

– Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate”, in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.

“I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state …. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia …. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va …. I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities.”

– Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate”, in a letter written in 1946, after he quit the KKK.

“These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in Birmingham to the utmost of my ability and by all lawful means.”

– Democrat Bull Connor (1957), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama

“I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

– Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler’s Book, “Inside The White House”

(On New York) “K*ketown.” — Harry Truman in a personal letter

“I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.”

-Harry Truman (1911) in a letter to his future wife Bess

“There’s some people who’ve gone over the state and said, ‘Well, George Wallace has talked too strong about segregation.’ Now let me ask you this: how in the name of common sense can you be too strong about it? You’re either for it or you’re against it. There’s not any middle ground as I know of.” — Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace (1959)

On Jews

“You f*cking Jew b@stard.” — Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. This was revealed in “State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton” and has been verified by Paul Fray and three witnesses.

“The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes.” — Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002

“Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under his holy and righteous name.” — Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, 1984

‘Hymies.’ ‘Hymietown.’ — Jesse Jackson’s description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail.

“Jews — that’s J-E-W-S.” — Democratic state representative Bill McKinney on why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002

On Whites

“I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.”

– Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002

“Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.” — Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

(I) “will not let the white boys win in this election.”
– Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s Campaign Manager on the 2000 election

“The old white boys got taken fair and square.” — San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election

“There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.” — Former Klansman and Current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate” in March of 2001

“The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won’t pay for much family planning.” — Jocelyn Elders

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.” — Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, City College audience in New York

“There’s no great, white bigot; there’s just about 200 million little white bigots out there.” — USA Today columnist Julienne Malveaux

“We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders.” — Former Rep. Gus Savage (D-Illinois) after his defeat 1992

“White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” — Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ, cited in “Democrats Do the Dumbest Things

“The white race is the cancer of human history.” — Susan Sontag

“Reparations are a really good way for white people to admit they’re wrong.” — Zack Webb, University Of Kentucky NAACP

Wow Democrat’s… We Hardly Knew Ya! -

Do you dispute the FACT that so-called “literacy tests” were in fact designed and used to keep non-whites from voting? If so, you’re no different from Holocaust deniers.

She’s proved nothing concrete therefore there’s nothing to dispute.

The historical record says otherwise.

If you think otherwise, go for it. Prove it.

No, you are claiming that the historical record is false. You made the claim, so the burden of proof is yours.

Whites are generally not racists. We, in America, tend think that racism is exclusive only to whites. That thinking is ridiculous on it’s face and has a racist tinge to it. One of the points I was trying to make above was how liberal sub-groups try to gin up racial animosity amongst Mexicans, (even though illegal immigration isn’t exclusive to the Mexican population). The more racist elements of the Mexican population then seize on that sentiment and try to exploit for their own purposes (La Razza). That is something the black population also battles. I’d recommend reading Race and Culture and White Liberals and Black Rednecks by Thomas Sowell for more on those subjects. They are super awesome books and they really had a big impact on how I view racial issues.

I’m not advocating the tearing apart of families and the terrorizing of families of the INS, either. I’m not even saying that law abiding families can’t stay, providing they pay a fine and any taxes owed in a reasonable amount of time. That would be, if I ruled America, addressed in my INS over haul. I am saying though, that illegal immigration is not a racial issue, no matter how much the Left likes to pretend it is.

I agree with everything you wrote in your second post directed at me. I’m not sure we would reach the same conclusions, though.

See how that works?

More ad hominem. Having to think realistically must be frustrating you.

Yes, you also used the word abolish. Which is it? Abolish or reform? State your reforms. Any ideas on reforming jus soli as well?

Your arguments are based on emotion and not reality. Reality bites at times but in order to HAVE order we have to be real.

Seeing as how you base your position on altruistic leaning I might assume that you would have no immigration laws at all? I could be wrong but based on your comment I might infer that you’d like this type of equality. Were that to be the case, run that though your mind a bit. Do you see any strain at all economically for the country, educationally? (Many south and central Am countries do not teach English at all in their schools). How about jobs? Any strain on the Healthcare system? Welfare? Medicaid/Care? Housing? Law enforcement? Right now 70% of criminals (unrelated to immigration laws) in border states are non-citizens. What would absorbing such quanities of people do to our infrastructure? How about taxes?

If you choose to ignore reality based issues that is your choice but you cannot label those who choose to consider these REAL issues, “racists” or xenophobic and expect them to think you have a fully functioning brain.