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Originally Posted by direstraits:

Republicans ended slavery and passed the first civil rights bill -- later rescinded by the next Democrat administration.  Democrats supported racists groups like the KKK in that era.  Progressive Democrat president Wilson was a racist, who segregated the federal government.  Shall, I continue.

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Your call, but if you continue do not neglect to mention LBJ and the Voting Rights Act and Harry Truman's desegregation of the military. And also before replying, you should read THIS fair and balanced review:

 

http://www.addictinginfo.org/h...ivil-rights-equality and

LBJ, with his nasty comment on blacks (he used the n-word) voting Democrat for 200 years, was a racist who used blacks as  tools.  His civil rights act would not have passed without significant Republican support in both houses of congress.  Too many Democrat pols were busy burning crosses to protest a Republican - MLK Jr.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney

 

 

A group of four middle-aged men in suits and one woman in a dress walk in the first rank of a procession of individuals down the middle of a street. Brick upper-stories of storefronts appear in the background, from middle to the right; tops of trees appear in the distance, far left. Three placards tacked onto pickets and held by two men in the second rank and one in the first rank read as follows.

George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician.

When Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Detroit in June 1963 and led the 120,000-strong[126] Great March on Detroit, Romney designated the occasion Freedom March Day in Michigan, and sent state senator Stanley Thayer to march with King as his emissary, but did not attend himself because it was on Sunday.[122][127][128] Romney did participate in a much smaller march protesting housing discrimination the following Saturday in Grosse Pointe, after King had left.[122][125][126] Romney's advocacy of civil rights brought him criticism from some in his own church;[97] in January 1964, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles member Delbert L. Stapley wrote him that a proposed civil rights bill was "vicious legislation" and telling him that "the Lord had placed the curse upon the Negro" and men should not seek its removal.[35][129] Romney refused to change his position and increased his efforts towards civil rights.[35][129] Regarding the church policy itself, Romney was among those liberal Mormons who hoped the church leadership would revise the theological interpretation that underlay it,[130] but Romney did not believe in publicly criticizing the church, subsequently saying that fellow Mormon Stewart Udall's 1967 published denunciation of the policy "cannot serve any useful religious purpose".[131][132]

 

 

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