Comments on: “My Daddy Died In Iraq” Essay By Six Year Old A Lie – Endorsed By Her Mother

By: Lestat

Lestat — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I meant to say that “I never said that fountains were segregated everywhere in the US.”

Couldn’t be there was a general pattern of voting by the Northern Democrats that disenchanted Southern Democrats.

The strategist in charge of the Republican party in the early 70s have stated what the Southern Strategy was.

By: realitybasedbob

realitybasedbob — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh how I love me some Gumbyism

By: robert108

robert108 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s the truth:

May 17th(1954)
The Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (Brown I), declaring that racial segregation in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause. The same day, it holds that racial segregation in the District of Columbia public schools violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment in Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497 (1954).

1954 – The beginning of the end of racial segregation in the United States. Done by Republicans over the opposition of Southern Democrats, also known as Dixiecrats. The Dems were the Party of segregation, while the Republican Party, founded to end slavery, consistently worked to end segregation. Fact.

Lestat: Your mischaracterization of the US as a generally segregated country is just flat wrong. It was only in a Democrat-controlled region of the US that segregation even existed over 50 years ago.

By: carrick

carrick — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Which party was it that tried to stop the Civil Rights Amendment again? It was the Republican Party that cast the key votes (80%-20% in favor) not the Democratic Party (which went as low as 65%-35% in key votes). Had it just been desegregation, they would have been angry at the Republicans, not the Democrats. Certainly, disgruntlement of Southern Democrats went beyond the simple issue of desegregation I think it was a response to general leftward tilting of the Democratic Party…
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It’s typical that the Democrats and their liberal allies in the press blame the Republicans over the loss of a key voter bloc, but it’s also typical of them to point the finger of blame to others for their own actions. That’s part of what “liberalism” has come to mean, in its current corrupted sense of meaning.

By: robert108

robert108 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whoop! My bad; it was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, introduced during the Eisenhower administration. It is true that segregated drinking fountains were not common in most of the US fifty years ago, unlike your mischaracterization, Lestat. You lied about that.

By: HG

HG — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

No problem for me at all, r108.

By: Hannitized

Hannitized — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Teaching her kid to lie is bad enough, but teaching her to use something like an imaginary father’s death to get what she wants is way, way over the top:

Agreed. You finally said something smart.

The company is considering taking back the tickets. Personally, I think the mother should be investigated by child protection for involving her daughter in a blatant crime – fraud.

Now you go and ruin the smart thing you said, with a really, really STUPID one! Two way over the top actions don’t make things right, ya big dope.

Oh wait, maybe you were being “funny” again?

By: Neiman

Neiman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ellinas: I usually don’t correct spelling or grammar, but several times you have used the word succeed when I believe you meant secede, meaning to foormally withdraw from an alliance of some kind.

By: Neiman

Neiman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Proof: My apologies! Your past corrections were so brilliant I thought it was artificial turf!

By: carrick

carrick — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lestat:

Give me one other issue we would of gone to war over.

Already have. States rights. As I mentioned this doesn’t seem important to you, because you wouldn’t be harmed by a lessoning of the power of the individual state, but rather would benefit from it. But it’s not surprising that those most negatively affected by it, would respond strongly to the imposition of a more centrally controlled government.

Part of the conflict also centered around the reality of the economic and social differences between the North and the South, and the perceived lack of shared interests between South and North, especially following 1848. Slavery plays a role in that, because it was a key component of Southern culture, and helped produce an elite class of Southern gentility reminiscent of south-of-the border social class structure.

In any case, it is a vast oversimplification to think of this strictly as a war fought over the “right to hold slaves”.