Scoop Henderson Loc: The Rez, (I am from Egypt)

Too funny, we should not repeat what he said about the Jewish tribe, or should we? No, we will stay on the issue of 1948 and how best to correct the blunder before the bomb wielding Shi'a or the butchering Sunni IS take them out.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Republican President Eisenhower Achieved  Desegregation Of The Military

Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military.  Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.

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Republican Senator Everett Dirksen – The Key To Modern-era Civil Rights Legislation

Little known is the fact that it was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act.  In fact, Dirksen was instrumental in the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968.  Dirksen wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  He also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen’s “able and courageous Leadership”, and "The Chicago Defender”, the largest black-owned daily at that time, praised Senator Dirksen “for the grand manner of his generalship behind the passage of the best civil rights measures that have ever been enacted into law since Reconstruction”.

The chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd, a former official in the Ku Klux Klan.  None of these r

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Affirmative action facts...

Nixon’s Southern Strategy Was Not A Racist Appeal

In the arsenal of the Democrats is a condemnation of Republican President Richard Nixon for his so-called “Southern Strategy.”  These same Democrats expressed no concern when the racially segregated South voted solidly for Democrats for over 100 years, yet unfairly deride Republicans because of the thirty-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party that began in the 1970's.  Nixon's "Southern Strategy” was an effort on his part to get fair-minded people in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were discriminating against blacks.  Georgia did not switch until 2004, and Louisiana was controlled by Democrats until the election of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal in 2007.

As the co-architect of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, Pat Buchanan provided a first-hand account of the origin and intent of that strategy in a 2002 article that can be found on the Internet at: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30233

In that article, Buchanan wrote that when Nixon kicked off his historic comeback in 1966 with a column about the South (written by Buchanan), Nixon declared that the Republican Party would be built on a foundation of states rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense, and leave it to the “party of Maddox, Mahoney and Wallace to squeeze the last ounce of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice”.

During the 1966 campaign, Nixon was personally thanked by Dr. King for his help in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1957.  Nixon also endorsed all Republicans, except the members of the John Birch Society.

Notably, the enforcement of affirmative action began with Richard Nixon‘s 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher who became known as “the father of affirmative action enforcement”) that set the nation‘s first goals and timetables.  Nixon was also responsible for the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1970’s, including the Equal Employment Act of 1972.

Fletcher, as president of the United Negro College Fund, coined the phrase “the mind is a terrible thing to waste.”  Fletcher was also one of the original nine plaintiffs in the famous “Brown v. Topeka Board of Education” decision.  Fletcher briefly pursued a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1995.

Nixon began his merit-based affirmative action program to overcome the harm caused by Democrat President Woodrow Wilson who, after he was elected in 1912, kicked blacks out of federal government jobs and prevented blacks from obtaining federal contracts.  Also, while Wilson was president and Congress was controlled by the Democrats, more discriminatory bills were introduced in Congress than ever before in our nation’s history.  Today, Democrats have turned affirmative action into an unfair quota system that even most blacks do not support.

KHH1

I feel you on Nixon...but I am referring to the modern era.....white women are the bigggest benficiaries of AA and quotas were outlawed long ago.....the GOP and Dems switched on the civil rights after 1964 when strom and jesses helms led the way out of being Dems (former southern dixiecrats)...hence the switch by black people to becoming today's Dems uness you just think we were one big azz dumb race of people....Byrd changed his ways and became the most ardent fighter/supporter of civil rights initiatives to the extent he had one of the best civil rights legislative report cards by the NAACP....see all that I had to refute? That is why I really don't deal with cons.....you all have a dishonest premise that is based on the perceived ignorance of who you are talking to...and still..the lowered college enrollment and professional inclusion remains unmentioned..I hate when people insult my intelligence...they obviously do not know how much reading one does when they have been involved in higher education as a student or professor approximately 30+ years-read below about southern strategies and quotas-dialogue is meaningless....I guess it is to the victor goes the spoils:
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In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy in the late 20th century of gaining political support for presidential candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to regional racial tensions and history of segregation.[1][2]

The Democratic Party in the South defended slavery before the American Civil War. After regaining power in state governments in the 1870s, Democrats imposed white supremacy. At the end of the century, southern states passed new constitutions and laws making voter registration and voting more difficult, resulting in disenfranchising most blacks and many poor whites. The South became a one-party region, maintaining political exclusion of minorities well into the 1960s. The Solid South and its political power in Congress was achieved at the expense of African Americans. In the years after World War II, African Americans pressed for civil rights. White Southern Democrats gradually stopped supporting the national party following its adoption of the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (against which the Dixiecrats formed), support for the African-American Civil Rights Movement, passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and push for desegregation.

In the mid 1960s, a period of social turmoil, Republican Presidential candidates Senator Barry Goldwater[3][4] and Richard Nixon worked to attract southern white conservative voters to their candidacies and the Republican Party.[5] Barry Goldwater won the five formerly Confederate states of the Deep South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina[6][7]) in the 1964 presidential election, but he otherwise won only in his home state of Arizona. In the 1968 presidential campaign, Nixon won Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, all former Confederate states, contributing to the electoral realignment of white voters in some Southern states to the Republican Party. After federal civil rights legislation was gained via bipartisan votes, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, more than 90 percent of black voters registered with the Democratic Party. The VRA provided tools to end their decades-long disenfranchisement by southern states. Hundreds of cases have been litigated to change election systems, such as at-large voting, that have prevented even significant minorities from electing candidates of their choice for city and county positions.

As the twentieth century came to a close, most white voters in the South had shifted to the Republican Party. It began to try to appeal again to black voters and rebuild the political relationship that had lasted through the 1920s, though with little success.[5] In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.[8][9]
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Quotas

Law regarding quotas and affirmative action varies widely from nation to nation. Caste based quotas are used in Reservation in India. However, they are illegal in the United States, where no employer, university, or other entity may create a set number required for each race.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action


this took away from my time doing other things...but this is why I could never be a Con..the detrimental effect of repeals and the dishonesty associated with dialogue...from slavery to the civil war to the conflag to AA.....i'm kool...but I save academia for proving what I say is right

KHH1

After federal civil rights legislation was gained via bipartisan votes, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, more than 90 percent of black voters registered with the Democratic Party. The VRA provided tools to end their decades-long disenfranchisement by southern states. Hundreds of cases have been litigated to change election systems, such as at-large voting, that have prevented even significant minorities from electing candidates of their choice for city and county positions.

As the twentieth century came to a close, most white voters in the South had shifted to the Republican Party. It began to try to appeal again to black voters and rebuild the political relationship that had lasted through the 1920s, though with little success.[5] In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.[8][9]

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

I would appreciate your evaluation of this site, in respect for time (I'm retired and currently traveling) your response will be awaited with patience.

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Who's the dittohead now?

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Blow it out your ass, idiot.

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

You got that right!

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

It's obvious by now that payne is not a rational person, saltwind. You can't reason with people like him. He's totally obsessed with his hatred of the Jews and he probably never thinks about much else.

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

There you go again, eagleeye, talking out of your ass. There is no such thing as Zionist communism. Zionism and Judaism are incompatible with communism, and don't bother reminding me that Karl Marx was a Jew. A lot of people may call themselves Jews, but communism is Godless whereas Judaism is not.

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Nixon would totally be a Democrat if he were alive today, and a fairly liberal one at that.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

I agree with the proper writing of an AA bill. The challenge is demographics in large parts of the country (universities excluded). Many employer's given a percentage of their staff must qualify under AA , the small 2-3 staff businesses must be disqualified often hiring family, small businesses often do not have demographics to fulfill the percentage required and end up hiring a completely unqualified in order to comply. And medium to large may never be able to qualify I have experienced most of these segments living a career in demographics not suited. I would support a bill that challenges the employer with reasonable effort and expense in cooperation with a law, but firmly be against a bill that unjustly allows the NAACP a foothold for lawsuit unreasonably and duress to the employer. Demographics and reasonable were never apart of AA, and the NAACP took express advantage creating a sue happy generation. This is blame on a poorly thought out bill, and an over zealous racist NAACP of that time period
Solutions to inequality, racism, and bias need to responsibly be addressed. But sadly never will racist ever be satisfied or be silent, regardless of any forward steps and success of the best written bill

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

I'm not sure what the zio line is. You have a hell of a nerve accusing anybody of lying. You who claim that the holocaust was make believe and Israel and or Jews were responsible for 9/11! Your own words condemn you as a racist and a liar to everyone that has read your post! You are nothing but an apologist for terrorist and murderers that hate Jews and Americans. Were you one of those Palestinians that jumped for joy in Gaza when 9/11 happened?

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

You are accusing the Zionists of being Communists? Does any truth come from your lying mouth? The right wing has been in power in Israel for years. It is still one of the few places in the middle east where Arabs have the right to vote. It is true that the early founders of Israel were democratic socialists, but never Communists.
The Arab states have tried every kind of dictatorship from monarchy to fascism to extreme nationalism to jihadist terrorism to military dictatorship. They are anything but enlightened. Any kind of dictatorship that offers the opportunity for corruption. The latest scandal in so called Palestine is the PA using college scholarship money from Europe to Gaza for their own use. I am beginning to believe that these people are not yet ready for nationhood. Maybe they need another couple of centuries as a European colony before they achieve some kind of statehood.