>
> you are right kat, it is strange. the clintons could
> have put minorities in inportant positions but,
> didn't
> (ron brown in dept of commerce was about as far as
> it
> went). the republicans, have minorities in the most
> powerful cabinate positins. state, national security
> advisors..... how long are minorities going to take
> to
> see that the dems are doing nothing for them.
>
> --- "K. Salkin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Ken's right; the civil rights movement started
> back
> > in the 1950s, when
> > Eisenhower was in power, and the Southern
> Democratic
> > Party was in power in
> > the South. The governors of the Southern states
> at
> > the time were solidly
> > behind the segregationists. It's ironic that
> > nowadays blacks as a whole
> > identify more with the Democrats than the
> > Republicans, under whom the civil
> > rights movement started.
> >
> > After the Civil War ended, it was the Republicans
> > who made sure Lincoln's
> > Emancipation program went through. All over the
> > South the federal
> > government installed Republican office holders -
> > unfortunately some of them
> > were opportunists, ready to make a fast buck out
> of
> > the defeated
> > Southerners, thus leading to the Southern term,
> the
> > hated 'carpetbaggers.' a
> > real term of contempt. There's a note in my Texan
> > great-great grandfather's
> > papers - a sworn affidavit of allegiance to the US
> > after the Civil War; on
> > the back, someone had noted in a neat copperplate
> > handwriting, "A bitter
> > pill to swallow." He was a physician and a
> > lieutenant in the Confederate
> > Army who treated Union POWs in a camp in Texas.
> > Most of them died not from
> > their wounds but from yellow fever, according to
> his
> > notes. Fascinating
> > stuff, history.
> >
> > Kat
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "ken barber" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fwd: Rus Cooper-Dowda's Editorial in
> > Birmingham News
> >
> >
> > > who was in power when birmingham was
> segregationis
> > in
> > > politics?
> > > as in the other southern states, it was the
> > > democrats. george walace stood in the doors of
> the
> > > university of alabama to block blacks from
> > entering.
> > > the civil rights law of 1964 was passed over the
> > > democrats opposition. study your history. if not
> > for
> > > republicans the civil rights bill would have
> been
> > > blocked. look it up.
> > >
> > > --- Magenta Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > > > Please take time to notice if there are curb
> > ramps
> > > > in your City. If there
> > > > aren't consistently, please call your City's
> ADA
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> > > > The Rest of the Revolution:
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