Charlie Rangel makes racial slur, shows ignorance of history

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DEM REP. SAYS THE TEA PARTY IS THE ‘SAME GROUP’ OF ‘WHITE CRACKERS’ WHO FOUGHT TO KEEP SEGREGATION

“It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police,” the longtime New York congressmantold the Daily Beast. “They didn’t care about how they looked.”

Rangel said the Tea Party should be defeated the same way segregationists were ultimately beaten.
“It was just fierce indifference to human life that caused America to say enough is enough. ‘I don’t want to see it and I am not a part of it.’ What the hell! If you have to bomb little kids and send dogs out against human beings, give me a break,” he said.

No faethor, the political parties did not switch sides on civil rights. The Tea Party platform has nothing to do with race or skin color, it has to do with taxation. As much as blatantly racist people like Charlie Rangel are ignorant of history, the simplae fact is it was DEMOCRATS who opposed civil rights and REPUBLICANS who stood with Martin Luther King
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We decided to check.

The House passed the Civil Rights Act on Feb. 10, 1964, by a margin of 290-130, with 61 percent of Democrats voting for it (152 yeas and 96 nays), and 80 percent of Republicans backing it (138-34).

In the Senate, the margin was 73-27. Better than two-thirds of Senate Democrats supported it (46-21), and 82 percent of Republicans backed it (27-6).

Republican support was higher than Democratic support — even though the legislation was pushed by a Democratic president, Lyndon B. Johnson — because opposition to the bill mainly came from Southern lawmakers. At the time, the South was overwhelmingly Democratic, a legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction, when the Republican Party was the leading force against slavery and its legacy. So the Democratic Party was divided between Southern Democrats, most of whom opposed civil rights legislation, and Democrats from outside the South who usually supported it.

Northern Democrats backed the Civil Rights Act by a margin even larger than that of Republicans — 141-4 — while Southern Democrats were strongly opposed, 11 yeas to 92 nays.

The Voting Rights Act votes mirrored those results.

Democrats deserve credit for being the driving force behind the legislation, our experts said. But Republicans took leading positions as well. Republican support exceeded that of the Democrats, and Republicans took leading roles on both bills. These factors earn Steele a rating of True.

It really sucks for the racist Rangel that voting records exist.

Yes, I am feeling much better lately. Thank you for asking